You might call Ivy Pochoda the bard of bad women, an auteur of feminine fierceness. For proof, look no further than the ...

First, though, why do we still remember those Greek myths from so long ago? Although this is a piece about the women of the legends, and how they’re finding their way to centre stage at last ...

A digital reconstruction revealed the face of a 3,500-year-old Mycenaean royal woman, providing a remarkable glimpse into the ancient world of Mycenae, centuries before the Trojan War and the time ...

Written by Anna Ziegler and directed by Maggie Burrows, 'Janeiad' tells the stories of two women, centuries apart, who each lost the love of her life.

When he was a 13-year-old schoolboy, a tousled Greek youngster named Nicolas Hadgikyriaco saw his first “modern” painting—a tortured Matisse street scene—in a Paris gallery. “I was ...

Modern witches are crossing international borders and learning from each other without leaving their homes by creating communities on social media, like TikTok. If fear about women’s power led to ...

The "Promitheia 2025" festival, held last weekend, marked its 30th year celebrating the Dodecatheists, adherents to the 12 ...

Monday, June 2, 2025 Modern Greek literature resource CENSUS, an online bibliography largely developed at Boston College, provides references to English-language translations of modern Greek ...

A 38-year-old Greek woman was killed when a bomb she was carrying towards a bank exploded in her hands in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki Saturday, police said.

Novels that take on the marginalized or vilified women in mythology are flooding bookstores and reigniting questions about who gets to tell these stories, and how.

Ancient witches: gender and power While modern witchcraft is inclusive of many different genders and identities, witches in ancient myth and literature were almost exclusively women.