After some hard-fought victories, women’s rights are threatened again in many parts of the world. In the United States, the Supreme Court overturned women’s right to abortion in June 2022; women have ...

Across mythology and folklore, certain women became renowned for their mastery of magic, prophecy, and the supernatural. Some ...

Classicist Haynes (A Thousand Ships) challenges common ideas about Greek mythology in this sharp corrective. To show “how differently [myths] were viewed in the ancient world,” she closely reads the ...

(The Conversation) — Female characters in Greek mythology lived under strict patriarchal rules, but they spoke truth to power and resisted injustice. As a scholar of ancient mythology, I’m aware of ...