Women in ancient Greece: ordinary and extraordinary women's lives.
A profile of Agnodice, gynecologist in Athens in the 4th century BCE.
In the 5th century B.C.E., Artemisia, queen of Halicarnassus, helped Xerxes against the Greeks, then helped talk Xerxes out of pursuing his conquest of Greece. Biography from your About.com Guide to Women's History.
Philosopher, astronomer and mathematician, she headed up a Neoplatonic School, part of the Museum of Alexandria, Egypt. Her students were pagan and Christian young men from around the empire. She was killed by a mob of Christians in 415, probably inflamed by the bishop of Alexandria, Cyril.
Olympias, infamous mother of Alexander the Great, ruled as regent for her grandson while trying to defeat a rival claimant to rule Macedonia.
Gorgo was the daughter of one king and wife of the next Agiad king of Sparta and was renowned for wisdom. From N.S. Gill, Guide to Ancient History for About.com.
Article by Maria Jamil Fasolo on an ancient Greek philosopher who argued for women's rights.
A woman writer in the 5th century B.C.E, she is also said to have armed the Argive women against Sparta. By N. S. Gill, About's Ancient History Guide.
About Guide to Ancient History N.S. Gill on what we know of women in the archaic age of Greece.
J. Moyr Smith's 1882 collection of 112 images of Greek fashion.
Background and some translated writings from this Alexandrian Greek woman poet.
A selection of primary sources from the 5th century BCE to the 1st century CE, showing how laws treated women on issues such as education.
Sophocles has the character Procne decry women's lot in ancient Greece.
Collection of documents showing the way religion affected women's lives in ancient Greece and Rome.
