Many Greek legends tell of warrior women known as the Amazons. The daughters of Ares, the god of war, they were famed for ...

Artemisia, named after the Goddess Artemis, sister of Apollo, is the only woman Herodotus attributes ... Finding herself trapped between the deadly Greek triremes and the utterly bewildered ...

Born in Miletus, an Ionian Greek settlement on the coast of Western Turkey, she would not be bound by the same rules that restricted Athenian citizen women, and would eventually attain the sort of ...