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Megan Kumorek
Jun 5, 20232 min read
Maenads - Mad Women
Raving, frenzied, and mad have been words to describe women that have sparked worry and inspired fear among men throughout the centuries....
Megan Kumorek
May 8, 20232 min read
The Oracle of Delphi
Described as a young and beautiful maiden, the ancient Greek Oracle of Delphi – named Pythia (derived from Pytho: which was the original...
Cindy Levesque
Apr 17, 20233 min read
The Last of the Tyrants of Athens
Peisistratus had a complicated and theatrical rise to power during the sixth century BCE (see this earlier article). After some...
Cindy Levesque
Mar 6, 20233 min read
No girls allowed: A story about a mother's pride at the Olympics
The story of the only woman in history to sneak in to the ancient Olympics (according to Pausanias) in a fictionalized narrative.
Linda Persson
Feb 20, 20233 min read
Bathroom Break!
What happens when you don’t have toilet paper? As we are all painfully aware, the threat of running out of toilet paper today is...
Megan Kumorek
Feb 6, 20232 min read
The Ancient Art of Gift Giving - Ideas for your next Valentine’s Day
Getting ready for Valentine's Day? Here are a few suggestions from ancient history!
Menam Archaeology
Dec 30, 20226 min read
Happy New Year!
Wait, do I have the right date?! The celebration of the New year is not a modern phenomenon, but not all New Years celebrations were or...
Cindy Levesque
Dec 23, 20224 min read
Io Saturnalia!
Saturnalia is generally described as the Roman predecessor to Christmas, but that is not entirely correct. It is really hard to pin down...
Linda Persson
Dec 16, 20229 min read
Is Ancient History really “Ancient History”?
An examination of how antiquity lives on in Renaissance, Baroque and Neoclassical architecture Today, when something is no longer...
Cindy Levesque
Nov 14, 20224 min read
Beware of Greeks bearing gifts: the Laocoön group
The Trojan War On the shores near Troy, after a decade of war, one day the Greeks simply packed up and left. They loaded up on their...
Cindy Levesque
Oct 24, 20224 min read
Murder near the Tiber: Tiberius P.I.
24 CE, Rome Emperor Tiberius took a long, hard look at the room. It was clear there had been a struggle. Furniture was overturned and...
Anna Sunneborn Gudnadottir
Oct 24, 20223 min read
The Museum of Ancient Eleutherna: a small museum that leaves a big impression
Here at MENAM Archaeology we want to highlight the small museums that carry a big impact, and the museum of ancient Eleutherna is the...
Linda Persson
Oct 24, 20224 min read
The Wandering Womb: The much entertaining, ideological female disease of ancient Greece
The Hippocratic Corpus is a series of medical treaties, dated around the second half of the 5th century BCE to the first half of the 4th...
Cindy Levesque
Oct 24, 20224 min read
The City Asklepieion
Asklepios is the Greek god of medicine and healing. The god was worshipped all over Greece and his sanctuaries, called Asklepieions,...
Linda Persson
Oct 24, 20225 min read
Women in Classical Greece: The Life of Athenian Women during the Classical Period.
When one thinks about ancient Greece, especially during the Classical period (c. 480-323 BCE), what immediately comes to mind are the...
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