Statues and images of the goddess Aphrodite commonly depict her as nude, but is this an empowering way of portraying the goddess of beauty?

Dido, the legendary queen of Carthage, and her relationship with the hero Aeneas are explored in Virgil's Aeneid and Ovid's Heroides.

The Silence of the Girls and Women of Troy explore the story of the Trojan war through the lens of the forgotten women, especially Briseis.

Euripides' Medea is a divisive figure - is she a feminist figure and the victim of a tragedy or an evil villain who kills her own children?

In celebration of International Women’s Day 2021, we want to acknowledge that Classical women were epic, especially in epic literature.