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In this sexual histories series, authors explore changing sexual mores from antiquity to today. When the Athenian politician Pericles delivered his famous Funeral Oration at the end of the first year ...

Phryne the Thespian was a notable ancient Greek hetaira, or courtesan, of Athens, who is remembered throughout the millennia for her dramatic trial which she won by baring her naked body. Her real ...

Athens-based editor Katie Silcox has narrowed down this list of 15 places everyone should visit in Greece in their lifetime, drawing on her expertise of the country's loveliest islands, thriving ...

It’s no secret that the ancient Greeks loved to have parties, dance and drink for every occasion. It could be celebrating a birth, the arrival of a loved person or a marriage. Indeed, in many cases no ...

People in Ancient Greece were captivated by the scandals of their own stars. Credit: wallyg, Flickr, CC BY 2.0 Long before TMZ and Page Six dominated our feeds with celebrity gossip, people in Ancient ...

The first 50 pages of Murder in the Cathedral, Kerry Greenwood’s 23rd Miss Fisher adventure, made me laugh out loud. The last one made me cry, not because anything awful happens, but, as Kerry herself ...

The ancient worlds of Greece and Rome have perhaps never been as popular as they presently are. There are numerous television series and one-off documentaries covering both “big picture” perspectives ...

Glamorous lady detective Phryne Fisher returns in a cinematic sequel to the popular TV series. Glamorous lady detective Phryne Fisher (Essie Davis, The Babadook) returns in a cinematic sequel to the ...

Phryne the Thespian was a famed courtesan of Athens, better known for the court case she won by baring her breasts. Her actual name was Mnesarete but people referred to her as Phryne (“toad”) because ...

Phryne at the Festival of Poseidon in Eleusis, a large-scale 1889 history painting by Polish-Russian artist Henryk Siemiradzki, is held in the State Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg. Credit: ...