This tag: Greek Gods and Goddesses
Figureheads, Ship Badges and Silverware – Nineteenth Century Classical References in the National Maritime Museum This course was designed to delve into classical myths used in naval related items by examining some of the NMM collection of C19th objects and was run on Sunday 25th February 2018. Following on from the previous course we looked… Read more »
- Posted on: February 24, 2018
- Featured in History, History features
- Also tagged Achilles, Ajax, Ancient History, Ancient Rome, Cleopatra, European History, Greek Myths, Greenwich, Julius Caesar, National Maritime Museum, Troy
This tag: Greek Gods and Goddesses
Using literary sources and objects in the British Museum and elsewhere we compared and contrasted the attitude of the Ancient Greeks to women in society, as figures in mythology and as goddesses. We examined the position of women in Ancient Greece and the Greek colonies as well as the attitude to women as seen as… Read more »