- HELLAS:NET
- An exploration of ancient Greece
- The
Ancient City of Athens
- Kevin. T. Glowacki & Nancy L. Klein of Indiana University present this
photographic exposition of ancient Athens detailing the North and East
Slopes of the Akropolis, the Lysikrates Monument & the Arch of Hadrian,
the Agora, the Kerameikos, the Pnyx, the Olympieion & Southeast Athens.
Each site is pictured from a variety of angles showing the rich
multi-dimensional character of Greek architecture that is often missed in
single images.
- The Ancient Greek
World
- This presentation from the University of Pennsylvania
Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology offers a glimpse into daily
life in this ancient world culture through the use of images and an essay.
"The artifacts you will see here tell a vivid story of life in ancient
Greece. The text expands on this story, and together they create in detail
an interpretation of how Greek art and material culture add to the written
record and expand our understanding of daily life in ancient times." It
treats of four subcategories, Land and Time, Daily Life, Economy, and
Religion and Death. This is a quality web site that is well-worth the
visit.
- The Ancient
Olympic Games Virtual Museum
- Another quality presentation, this virtual museum from Dartmouth
University offers a variety of information about the ancient Olympic
games, including facts on the history of the games and the various games
that were played. This site also features four interviews with experts on
the ancient Olympics and a "fictional memoir" of an actual Olympic
competitor. Sports enthusiasts will enjoy reading about the rules used in
the ancient versions of several games, including boxing, running and
wrestling. (To do so, select "About the Contests" on the main image map of
the homepage.)
- The Ancient
Olympics
- Bullfinch's Mythology:
The Age of Fable or Stories of Gods and Heroes
- A
Cultural Map of Greece
- From the Hellenic Minstry of Culture, this Cultural Map provides an
access to a virtual tour of places, both old and new, all over Greece. By
selecting a region on a central image map, the user is referred to a
regional page and may further choose from a list of archological sites,
museums, monuments and even more recent structures.
- Hercules:
Greece's Greatest Hero
- Images of Orality and
Literacy in Greek Iconography of the Fifth, Fourth and Third Centuries
BCE
- The Last Days of
Socrates
- Mythology
in Western Art
- This site features an extensive collection of images relating to Zeus,
Hera, Hebe, Hades, Poseidon, Ares, Hephaestus, Hermes, Athena, Apollo,
Artemis, Dionysos, Aphrodite, and Eros. Images date from all periods of
Western art. Mythology in Western Art "was prepared in The
University of Haifa Library by Ora Zehavi and Dr. Sonia Klinger as part of
Dr. Klinger's survey course: Mythology in Western Art at the Department of
Art History, The University of Haifa."
- Pergamon:
The Telephos Frieze from the Great Altar
- The Perseus
Project
- A collaborative academic publication compiled by art historians,
philologists, and archaeologists for teaching and research, this site
contains textual and visual materials for the study of ancient Greek
civilization, and is published on CD-ROM, videodisk, and now on the
World-Wide Web. Over 70 museums have participated in building the Perseus
art catalogs. So far, the Perseus web site contains the full texts of the
Perseus art catalogs, documenting over 2,300 Greek vases, coins, and
sculptures. About 13,800 photographs of vases, coins, architecture and
sites are available now, and, as museums agree to allow it, more
photographs will be published on-line. Perseus also contains a texts
archive, with the works of over 30 ancient Greek authors, in Greek and in
English translation; morphological databases and lexica; a browser which
locates objects by attributes and keywords; and a searchable index to the
entire site. Professor Gregory Crane of Tufts University is the Editor in
Chief and founder of the Perseus Project.
- Plato
and His Dialogues
- In this hypertext book-in-the-making, Bernard Suzanne challenges the
existing paradigm that suggests that Plato's dialogues may be divided into
periods that show a change in Plato's thinking over time. Suzanne argues
(or is in the process of arguing) that Plato planned the 28 volume corpus
from the start and that changes in the text do not reflect an evolution in
Plato's thinking, but various changes that Plato expected in his readers
as they made progress on their individual journeys to becoming
full-fledged philosophers. This exciting new reading of Plato is worth
every minute of the time one wishes to spend on it. But please beware;
this is not a site that one can get through quickly.
- Women's
Life in Greece and Rome
- Compiled by Mary R. Lefkowitz and Maureen B. Fant and sponsored by Diotima:
Women and Gender in the Ancient World, this anthology is compiled of
primary text excerpts from the classical world. It is divided into ten
sections: Women's
Voices, Men's
Opinions, Philosophers,
Legal
Status in the Greek World, Legal
Status in the Roman World, Public
Life, Private
Life, Occupations,
Medicine
and Anatomy and Religion.
For more information about this website or to report any problems, please email Tony Beavers.