From The Conversation : Sex workers in Ancient Greece divided into two somewhat overlapping types. The most common were those who lived in b...

Pherenike of Rhodes: The Ancient Greek Mom Who Risked All to Guarantee Her Son's Olympic Glory - The Pappas Post The determination...

When Ancient Greece Banned Women From Olympics, They Started Their Own | Atlas Obscura Much  like their modern counterpart , the Olympic...

Could Women In Ancient Rome Hold Any Power? Asks History Extra . Largely excluded from education, the women of Ancient Rome were forever ...

From the Australian : Someone Else's War blends documentary evidence with imagination in bringing Stambolis to life, but even without t...

Jocasta is the story of one of the many much maligned women of Greek mythology.  A young noble-born girl is thrust onto the stage of politi...

From the Straits Times : ARCHAEOLOGISTS on the Greek island of Crete have unearthed the 2,900-year-old tomb of three women buried with jewel...

Queen of Jerusalem Maria was the grandniece of the Byzantine Emperor Manuel I Comnenus of Constantinople (d.1180). Maria was also related to...

Queen of Jerusalem Theodora was the niece of Emperor Manuel I Comnenus of Constantinople (d.1180). At the age of 13, Theodora was married to...

Zoe Empress of Byzantium Zoe was the younger daughter of Emperor Constantine VIII, the younger sister of Theodora. When her 68yo father (102...

Empress Irene (752-803) Athenian wife of Emperor Leo IV (r.775-780) (Kazan). Irene dominated her husband, whom she married when she was aged...