Not wanting to be girls, they don’t want to be tender, submissive, peace-loving as good women are ... first century A.D. Greek historian Plutarch, the Amazons “were no trivial nor womanish ...

Much like similar derogatory titles “siren” and “fury”, the term “harpy” is derived from a group of monstrous female figures ...

These gods were a bit like humans ... his stone fingers clutching a scrap of yellowing paper. There were stone women and stone children. Now Perseus saw the mouth of a large cave yawning darkly ...

Although they kept Latin names and images, the links between Roman and Greek gods ... three most important gods were Jupiter (protector of the state), Juno (protector of women) and Minerva ...

Photograph by Bridgeman/ACI The Greek historian Xenophon ... wedding of Ariadne and Dionysus, the god of wine. Other women who often attended symposia were hetaera, courtesans who became the ...