Once universities, rather than religious orders, were established as the key repositories of learning, women would find it ever harder to prove… — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
Religion is an easy target for accusations of repression and misogyny, but achievement in the sacred and therefore socio-political sphere was often… — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
At the birth of society and civilisation I find a religious landscape littered with feisty female deities who make wisdom their business. — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
Buttressed by an acceptance of female wisdom in the sacred sphere from the beginnings of organised religion 12,000 years ago to late… — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
Socrates was tried in a religious court. He was condemned for disregarding Athens' gods. If you look at the way he speaks… — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
Plants are so important to the ancients for medicine and in a religious aspect - and in hemlock! — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
After I graduated, I carried on with my academic work, via grants but I often had a market stall on Camden Market selling hand-painted… — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
I think it's ironic when Plato makes the learned woman Aspasia Socrates' teacher, but I think women crop up more in the Platonic dialogues… — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
Even the picturesque prehistoric settlements at Akrotiri on the Greek island of Santorini were an exercise in problem-solving; white-washed homes and town halls built… — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
For the Spartans, it wasn’t walls or magnificent public buildings that made a city; it was their own ideals. In essence, Sparta was a… — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
Of all the human figurines discovered so far from 30,000-3,000BC, 92% are of the female form. This is not to say there was any… — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
I think Socrates was fascinated by Alcibiades. It's almost the opposite of hypocrisy. I think it's like when you can see the potential in… — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
Sophia - a mystical female presence whose appearance is only fleeting in the Hebrew Bible and New Testament - was clearly once a household… — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
Ancient Egyptian women had rights under the law. They could own land. Many were literate. — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
The word 'America' probably didn't appear in the Persian language until the end of the 18th century - but then with a documented past… — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
History was invented as a tool, an engineered road down which human society could advance. — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
“Herodotus, the ‘Father of History’, records the moment – and you can hear the emotion in his voice as he does so, a mixture… — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
