After the death of Alexander the Great, a eunuch named Philetaerus established the ancient Greek city of Pergamon a major ...

Even Athens, by far the largest of all city-states, only contained an estimated population of about 200,000 people in the year 500 BC. Many of these people would have lived not in the city but in ...

Never before had women enjoyed as much freedom and authority as in the Persian Empire around 500 BC. Founded by Cyrus ... According to ancient texts, she was a pioneer in both the epistolary ...