Ancient Greek women had their own festival, Haloa, where they honored three deities with drinking, dirty jokes, and huge ...

Ancient Greek winter solstice festivals such as Haloa and Poseidon’s month blended astronomy, fertility rites, and the divine ...

According to historical sources, "women" — specifically meaning, in that time and culture, married, childbearing females — were not allowed to attend or participate in the original Olympic Games in ...

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 ...

A lavish tomb of a noblewoman discovered in ancient Greece includes a mysterious symbol of lost power. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

Novels that take on the marginalized or vilified women in mythology are flooding bookstores and reigniting questions about who gets to tell these stories, and how. By Alexandra Alter For centuries, ...

An ancient Greek statue of a woman seemingly using a laptop has sparked time travel theories online. "Grave Naiskos of an Enthroned Woman with an Attendant" is a 37-inch marble statue created around ...

ATHENS (Reuters) - About a dozen Greek women violated a 1,000-year ban on the male-only monastic community of Mount Athos on Tuesday during a protest over disputed land, one of the demonstrators said ...