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• - Introduction to ancient worship of the female Greek gods including Demeter and Kore, Hecate, Hera, others.
  
• - Summary overview of the position of women in Ancient Athens.
  
• - Brief summary of Amazon myths, listing of Amazon warriors. Part of Xena fan site.
  
• - Descriptive summary of a normal day for Athenian women.
  
• - Article on ceremonies of marriage and death in ancient Athens, implications for status of Athenian women.
  
• - Discussion, articles, and questions concerning the "Snake Goddess" images excavated from Knosses by Sir Arthur Evans and its implications for female worship on Crete.
  
• - Index and references to discussions of women's position in ancient Greek art.
  
• - An encyclopaedic site of brief entries concerning famous Greek women, goddesses, and literary characters from Amazons to Zosteria (Athena). Includes study questions and answers.
  
• - Under"Daily Life/Women's Life" are articles and images illustrating the life of women in Ancient Greece.
  
• - Life, works of famous Greek poetess, Sappho. Includes H.T. Wharton's "Life" of Sappho, poems in translation, other classical references.
  
• - Detailed article about the fabulous Helen of Troy in myth, literature and art.
  
• - History of women in ancient Greek athletics including the Olympic Games and Heraea Games.
  
• - Article discussing the portrayal of women in Ancient Greek literature as written by male authors. From Tufts' "Women in Antiquity" course.
  
• - Article about the female role of the Pythia, priestess of the Oracle of Apollo at Delphi.
  
• - Biography and selected works in translation of the Greek Sappho, preeminent woman poet of antiquity.
  
• - Discussion of known facts about the rites of the Eleusinian Mysteries in which Greek priestesses were significantly involved.
  
• - Discussion of the treatment of Spartan women in the works of the Greek historian, Herodotus.
  
• - Articles and links to information concerning the Greek goddess Demeter, her mythology, and her worship in ancient Greece.
  
• - Discussion of ancient Greek profession of hetairai, prostitutes who were permitted intellectual and sexual freedoms in Greek culture.