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Women in Antiquity

An Online Resource for the Study of Women in the Ancient World

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  • The Female Body
    • Female Bodies and Medical Theory
      • Ancient Female Skeletal Remains
      • Disabilities
      • Menstruation
      • Mental Illness
      • Male Understanding of Female Bodies
      • Women in Medical Theory
      • Pregnancy & Childbirth
      • Virginity
    • Medical Practitioners
      • Agnodice
      • Midwives
      • Women in Medicine
    • Religion and Healing
      • Female Anatomical Votive Offerings
      • Women’s Health and Religious Healing
      • Women’s Tattoos in Antiquity
  • Greek Women
    • Historical Figures
      • Praxilla From Ancient Sicyon
      • Female Acrobats
      • Female Painters
      • Aspasia of Miletus
      • Cleopatra VII
      • The Pythia at Delphi
      • Olympias
      • Sappho
      • Women and the Persian War
    • Mothers, Wives & Children
      • Children and Childhood in Ancient Greece
      • Girls in Ancient Greece
      • Greek Marriage: Wedding Ceremony
      • Motherhood in Ancient Greece
      • Mothers
      • Women and Funerals
      • Women and Misogyny in Ancient Greek Philosophy
    • Sex, Gender, and Society
      • Consent and Rape Culture
      • Hetairai (Prostitutes)
      • The Iconography of Women on Attic Pottery
      • Lesbianism and Queer Female Sexuality in Ancient Greece
      • Lysistrata: Classic and Modernized Theatre
      • Lysistrata
      • Pallakai
      • Women’s Sexuality
      • Women’s Sport
  • Roman Women
    • Priestesses and Religion
      • The Cult of Diana at Nemi, Italy
      • The Cult of Bona Dea
      • The Vestal Virgins and modern Christianity
      • The Vestal Virgins
      • Women in the Imperial Cult of Rome
      • Witchcraft and Depictions of Witches in Roman Sources
    • Pompeii
      • The Oecus of ‘Bad’ Women in the House of Jason at Pompeii
      • The Villa of the Mysteries
      • The House of Julia Felix
      • The Temple of Isis at Pompeii
      • Prostitution & Frescoes
      • Venus in Pompeian Frescoes
      • Women in Bathhouses
    • Real Women
      • Junia and the Destructive Power of Sexism and Bias
      • Locusta of Gaul: Murderer
      • Notable Female Scientists
      • Sulpicia
      • Women Gladiators
      • Women in the Augustan Period
      • Roman Marriage, Dowry, and Divorce
      • Women at Vindolanda
    • Royal Women
      • Agrippina the Younger
      • Boudica
      • Cleopatra VII and Dido
      • Livia Drusilla
      • Olympias
      • Theodora, Empress of the Byzantines
      • Zenobia: Queen of Palmyra
    • Roman Women in Modern Media
  • Adornment
    • Clothing
      • Bridal Attire in Ancient Greece and Rome
      • Matrona & Mistress in Rome
      • Mycenaean Women’s Clothing
      • Women’s Fashion in Imperial Rome
    • Cosmetics
      • Cosmetics in the Greco-Roman World
      • Cosmetics in Egypt
    • Textile Production
      • Roman Women in Textile Production and Commerce
      • Spinning & Weaving
      • Tracing Women Through Textiles in the Ancient Mediterranean
  • Greek Goddesses
    • Cults and Worship
      • Cult of Artemis at Brauron
      • Eleusinian Mysteries at the Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore
      • Hekate
      • Mythology & Cult of Athena
      • The Sanctuary of Artemis Orthia
      • Sea Farers, Sex Workers and the Goddess of Love.
    • Olympians
      • Aphrodite
      • Artemis in Mythology
      • Athena and the Trojan War
      • Persephone / Proserpina
    • Minor Goddesses
      • Gaia
      • Goddesses in Ancient Greek Plays
      • Hestia
      • Moirai: Fates
      • Nike, Goddess of Victory
      • The Muses
      • The Nymphs
  • Roman Myth
    • Apuleius’ Psyche
    • Cloelia
    • Cybele, The Mother Goddess
    • Fortuna
    • Iphis: LGBTQ+ Representation in Ovid and Beyond
    • Lucretia
    • Venus
  • Greek Myth
    • Heroic Women
      • The Amazons
      • Atalanta
    • Homeric Women
      • Andromache
      • Depictions of Circe Throughout the Ages
      • Helen of Troy
      • Penelope
    • Maenads & Dionysus
      • The Dionysus in Everything
      • The Satire of Classical Maenadism
      • Maenads
    • Monstrous Women
      • Circe the ‘Villain’
      • Hecate and Medea
      • Medusa & the Gorgons
      • Pandora
      • The Villainization of Medea and Medusa
    • Women of Tragedy
      • Phaedra
      • Women in the Oresteia
      • Complexity of Antigone versus Creon
      • The Gender & Social Politics of Antigone
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