Women in ancient greece: Did you mean...?

An 1885 oil on canvas, Women Bathing, Dieppe, by Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) the French post-impressionist painter. Although the artist was influenced by the impressionists and experimented with that technique, this work illustrates that Gauguin...

An 1882 oil on canvas, Two Women in a Loge, by Mary Cassatt (1844-1926), the American impressionist painter. The two young girls here at the opera are connected by the large painted fan, a fashionable addition to a lady's attire in this period...

An 1891 gouache and chalk on silk painting, Peasant Women Planting Pea Sticks, by Camille Pissarro (1830-1903), the Danish-French impressionist painter. The artist was interested in capturing an idealised view of rural life in many works...

Arcadian Days: Gods, Women, and Men from Greek Myths by John Spurling and published by Pegasus Books.

An 1894 oil on canvas, Breton Peasant Women, by Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) the French post-impressionist painter. Painted in Brittany. The figures are an excellent example of the cloisonnist style where areas of a single colour are bordered...

Queens of Jerusalem: The Women Who Dared to Rule by Katherine Pangonis.

Detail of carving at Peterskirche, Munich.

The Panhellenic Games of Nemea were held every two years from 573 BCE to 271 BCE with a brief transferal to Argos between ca. 415BC and ca 330 BCE. Originally, they commemorated the death of Opheltes. The stadium visible today dates from...

The lives of ancient Roman women and the exact roles played by them both in ancient Rome and all throughout the ancient world are pretty obscure, due to the focus of both the ancient male writers, and the nineteenth and twentieth-century...

This infographic illustrates the Twelve Olympian Gods (Dodekatheon), central figures of ancient Greek religion believed to reside on Mount Olympus. Each deity ruled over key aspects of nature, society, or cosmic order, forming a divine hierarchy...