It was Sarah Pomeroy’s 1975 book, “Goddesses, Whores, Wives and Slaves: Women in Classical Antiquity,” helped beginn this shift. Pomeroy’s feminist slant on the period stimulated a closer ...

Life-sized statues of a man and a woman were discovered in a tomb in Pompeii, researchers said, thousands of years after a deadly volcano wiped out the ancient ... is wearing a toga indicating ...

Reuters Archaeologists in Israel have uncovered a rare multicolored Roman mosaic featuring three toga-wearing figures during excavations in the ancient ... the Byzantine period about 1,500 years ...

The theme Women in Sight identifies ... by women from the medieval period to the end of the baroque era. Research into the marginalized contributions of women to classical music is one of the ...