Raving, frenzied, and mad have been words to describe women that have sparked worry and inspired fear among men throughout the centuries....

Described as a young and beautiful maiden, the ancient Greek Oracle of Delphi – named Pythia (derived from Pytho: which was the original...

Peisistratus had a complicated and theatrical rise to power during the sixth century BCE (see this earlier article). After some...

The story of the only woman in history to sneak in to the ancient Olympics (according to Pausanias) in a fictionalized narrative.

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...

Getting ready for Valentine's Day? Here are a few suggestions from ancient history!

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...

Saturnalia is generally described as the Roman predecessor to Christmas, but that is not entirely correct. It is really hard to pin down...

An examination of how antiquity lives on in Renaissance, Baroque and Neoclassical architecture Today, when something is no longer...

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...

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...

Here at MENAM Archaeology we want to highlight the small museums that carry a big impact, and the museum of ancient Eleutherna is the...

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...

Asklepios is the Greek god of medicine and healing. The god was worshipped all over Greece and his sanctuaries, called Asklepieions,...

When one thinks about ancient Greece, especially during the Classical period (c. 480-323 BCE), what immediately comes to mind are the...