This short film produced and directed by Nikos Dayandas for the American School of Classical Studies in Athens was inspired by the work of the Classics scholar Mary Lefkowitz. Lefkowitz’s “Women’s Life in Greece and Rome: A Sourcebook in Translation” is a highly acclaimed collection of original sources that provides a unique look into the public and private lives and legal status of Greek and Roman women of all social classes – from wet nurses, prostitutes, and gladiatrixes to poets, musicians, intellectuals, priestesses, and housewives. As Lefkowitz’s sourcebook and Dayandas’s documentary both show, material culture can offer a wealth of information that may be lacking in formal literature. Rather than relying on written archives, the experts in Dayandas’s film help us to understand the varied and often surprising roles of women in Ancient Greece by focusing on clues provided by tombstones, pottery, mosaics and other material evidence uncovered by archaeological excavations.