Artemis is generally known as the ancient Greek goddess of hunting; however, she was a deity with various cults associated ...

A “misogynistic” sculpture depicting a woman “tied in a sack” should be removed from display, a councillor has said. Ariadne (Wrapped) was unveiled outside Cambridge railway station by ...

Text from ancient Greek and Roman writers describes how statues of deities—including Artemis, the Greek goddess of wild animals—were anointed with perfumes.

Some 180 statues and figurines dating from prehistory to the middle ages represent women in many guises, from goddesses, religious icons, mothers, entrepreneurs, and sex workers, all bonded by ...

Looking beyond text sources, scholars find more complexity in the realm of religion. The Greek pantheon is full of powerful female deities, such as Athena, goddess of war and wisdom and patron of ...

Since physical traces of ancient perfumes on statues are nearly nonexistent, Brøns turned to textual sources. One of her earliest examples comes from the Roman writer Cicero (106–43 BCE), who ...

2,000-Year-Old Greek Statue Found Abandoned in a Bag ... The loose drapery on the statue appears to indicate that it depicts a goddess, ... 3 Women Attacked by Dingoes While Visiting Popular ...

Man finds 2,000-year-old Greek statue dumped ... said that the loosely folded drapery suggests that the statue is of a goddess. Regular women in that period were ... Athena, the goddess of ...