Unlike society in ancient Egypt, Rome did not regard ... or ´tutela,´ until they died. By the time of Augustus, however, women with three children (and freedwomen with four) became legally ...

Guest: Daisy Dunn is an award-winning classicist and the author of The Missing Thread: A Women’s History of the Ancient World.  Her website is ...

Much like similar derogatory titles “siren” and “fury”, the term “harpy” is derived from a group of monstrous female figures ...

“For the first time, we are looking into the face of ... of the various ways archaeologists have misread the women of the ancient past, Hauser tells Smithsonian magazine.

the ancient and very sad city inhabited by slaves, revealed a year ago, but the real Pompeii already known, often forgotten and closer to today's. A new exhibition, this time about women ...

Archaeologists in coastal Peru have discovered the 5,000-year-old remains of a woman who may have belonged to the upper echelons of the ancient Caral civilization, a find they say points to the ...

Restrictions: ARH 290 may be taken for credit a total of 4 times with different topics. Enrollment limited to 20. {A}{H} Offered as ENG 202 and WLT 202. Considers works of literature, mostly from the ...

Other women, attract attention for their flagrant sexual excesses. One ancient writer describes Julia, Augustus’ only daughter, entertaining her lovers in public in the Roman forum. While ...

Our time is many years before your time ... But the kids wear shorter tunics so they can run around! Not many women in Ancient Greece are as lucky as me. Women in general are considered less ...