The ancient Olympic games were crowded with male athletes, but were there opportunities for females to compete in sports?

The same sources say "maidens" — a category comprising unmarried women, young and old — were allowed to attend, though they could not participate in the Games themselves. Although most historians ...

We like to think we know what our ancient female forebears were like. Yet a spate of recent discoveries confirms the truth: that we really have no idea. Clues from ancient texts and archaeological ...

Painted over the enormous midsection of the Dipylon amphora—a nearly 2,800-year-old clay vase from Greece—silhouetted figures surround a corpse in a funeral scene. Intricate geometric patterns zig and ...

The motion of work in ancient Greece had a clear distinction between working for one’s self and working for someone else.

Ancient Greece is often credited with numerous innovations that have shaped our modern world. From philosophy and democracy ...