Worst Article of the Week: Mycenaean Women of Power

Thanks to the Rogue Classicist, I found this Discover magazine article: Worst Science Article of the Week: Did Women Wield Power in Greece 3,500 Years Ago? Discover says that the Observer article entitled "DNA Explodes Greek Myth About Women," overstated, and by a lot. Quoting MIT ancient historian William Broadhead, Discover says:

Historians didn’t previously hold that these women were “chattel” or slaves in a man’s world, and it’s a stretch of the evidence to suggest that Ancient Greek women as a whole were power brokers based on such a small finding. “The article plays the classic rhetorical trick of exaggeration at both ends"....

For more on the original story, see my previous blog about Women in Ancient Greece.