Most research on women in Ancient Greece and Rome concentrate on urban domestic life where there were no references to women ...

However, despite laws and social norms that severely limited women’s autonomy, “Kyladitisses” shows that they still found ways to be influential in ancient Greek society. The idea that women ...

In ancient Greece, wealthy men often gathered for decadent banquets called symposia. Not only an occasion for thinking and philosophizing, the symposium was also a place for enjoying women ...

Cleopatra ruled over Ancient Egypt from 51 to 30 BC and was the last ruler of the Greek Ptolemaic Kingdom in Egypt.

Children played with small pottery ... They used this for cooking, in oil lamps and cosmetics. Men and women usually ate separately in ancient Greece. Rich people always ate at home - only ...

Gender equality in Greece has increasingly been a subject of debate in recent years, in the wake of the Eurozone crisis. Many feminists, including the bloggers of the website tomov.gr, argue that, all ...