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Greek history

      Titles Descriptions
  1. 19th-Century Photography of Ancient Greece
  2. Acropolis Museum
  3. Alexander the Great on the Web
  4. Ancient City of Athens
  5. Ancient Greek World
  6. Classics at Oxford
  7. Classics Collections
  8. Daily Life in Ancient Civilizations
  9. Greek Costume Through the Centuries
  10. Greeks: Crucible of Civilization
  11. Hellenic Culture
  12. Hellenic Ministry of Culture
  13. Herodotus on the Web
  14. HISTOS: Electronic Journal of Ancient Historiography
  15. Internet Classics Archive
  16. Metis: QTVR Interface for Ancient Greek Archaeological Sites
  17. Parthenon
  18. Perseus Project
  19. Project Archelogos
  20. Thesaurus Linguae Graecae
  21. University of Chicago Excavations at Isthmia
  22. World Lecture Hall

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19th-Century Photography of Ancient Greece
Offers 19th and early 20th century photographs of ancient Greek and Roman architecture, focusing on Greece, Asia Minor, the Aegean islands, Cyprus, South Italy, and Sicily. Arranged by location and monument.
     Author: J Paul Getty Trust
     Subjects: european archaeology, greek history, photographs
     DeweyClass: 938
     Resource type: documents, image collection
Acropolis Museum
Considered one of the most important museums in the world, it temporarily houses masterpieces of the ancient Greek civilization dedicated to the 'temenos' of Athena Parthenos. The collections include temple pediments and sculptures from the Archaic period, the Parthenon frieze and sculpted figures dated to around 500 BC.
     Author: Hellenic Ministry of Culture
     Subjects: european museums, greek history, sculpture
     DeweyClass: 069
     Resource type: museum
Alexander the Great on the Web
Offers an annotated listing of resources relating to the Macedonian conqueror. Material includes biographies, maps, academic articles and papers, images of Alexander, and the use of his name for religious or nationalistic reasons.
     Author: Spalding, Tim
     Subjects: greek history
     DeweyClass: 938
     Resource type: index
Ancient City of Athens
Photographic archive of the archaeological and architectural remains of ancient Athens, including images of sites and monuments such as the Acropolis, the Agora, and the Arch of Hadrian.
     Author: Indiana University Department of Classical Studies
     Subjects: greek history
     DeweyClass: 938
     Resource type: images
Ancient Greek World
Information about Ancient Greece covering archaeology, daily life, economy, and religion and death.
     Author: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
     Subjects: greek history
     DeweyClass: 938
     Resource type: documents, images
Classics at Oxford
Includes links to resources about the ancient world, such as art, archaeology, papyrology, epigraphy, philosophy and literature, along with faculty and prospectus information.
     Author: Oxford University
     Subjects: ancient history, ancient philosophy, egyptian history, greek history, greek literature, latin, roman history
     DeweyClass: 880
     Resource type: index
Classics Collections
Links to classics resources comprising subject guides, databases, bibliographies, directories, and journals. Greek and Roman history, art and archaeology, classical mythology, language, and ancient philosophy are among the topics covered.
     Author: University of Florida
     Subjects: ancient history, ancient philosophy, greek history, mythology, roman history
     DeweyClass: 930
     Resource type: index
Daily Life in Ancient Civilizations
Collection of information about life in Ancient Greece, China, Rome, India, and Egypt. Includes details of housing, families, entertainment, clothing and hair styles, religion, empires, weddings, and food.
     Author: Donn, Lin & Donn, Don
     Subjects: ancient history, chinese history, egyptian history, greek history, roman history
     DeweyClass: 930
     Resource type: documents
Greek Costume Through the Centuries
Information about the history of Greek costume. Includes the Minoan civilisation, ancient Greece, Roman times, Byzantium and the sixteenth-eighteenth centuries.
     Author: Mavromatis, Anna
     Subjects: clothing, greek history
     DeweyClass: 391
     Resource type: documents, images
Greeks: Crucible of Civilization
Resource providing information about the ancient Greeks in terms of their language, with a pronunciation guide highlighting the sounds of letters in 400BC, and life in Athens. Offers a timeline of events from 1400BC to 337BC, an insight to how the Acropolis and the Parthenon Temple were built, and details of famous Greeks including Cleisthenes, Themistocles, Pericles, Aspasia, and Socrates.
     Author: Public Broadcasting Service
     Subjects: greece, greek history
     DeweyClass: 938
     Resource type: documents, images
Hellenic Culture
Includes a cultural map of Greece, a listing of museums, monuments, and archaeological sites, and information about related organisations and events. Also provides access to literature, music, dance, theatre, cinema, and photography resources. Available in English and Greek.
     Author: Hellenic Ministry of Culture
     Subjects: greece, greek history, greek literature
     DeweyClass: 305.8
     Resource type: documents, index
Hellenic Ministry of Culture
A collection of images of ancient Greek artefacts. Includes prehistoric items, sculpture, pottery, minor art and bronzes.
     Author: Hellenic Ministry of Culture
     Subjects: greek history
     DeweyClass: 938
     Resource type: images
Herodotus on the Web
Annotated index to material about the Greek historian Herodotus, and his time. Includes introductory texts, articles and essays, translations, books, and resources on specific topics such as science, Egypt, ancient geography, and Psammetichus' experiment.
     Author: Spalding, Tim
     Subjects: greek history
     DeweyClass: 938
     Resource type: index
HISTOS: Electronic Journal of Ancient Historiography
Publication concerned with the historiographical texts of Greece and Rome; Byzantine historiography; the historiography of other ancient cultures; ancient biography; the influence of historiography and biography on other literary genres; precursors of historiography and biography; modern theory relevant to the study of historiography; and indeed ancient use of non-literary media for the representation of the past.
     Author: University of Durham
     Subjects: ancient history, greek history, greek literature, historical geography, roman history
     DeweyClass: 930
     Resource type: journal
Internet Classics Archive
Searchable archive of Greco-Roman, Chinese and Persian classical literature texts in English translation with commentaries. Includes Aesop's Fables, Ovid's Metamorphoses and Plato's Republic.
     Author: Stevenson, Daniel C., Web Atomics
     Subjects: ancient history, chinese history, greek history, latin, text collections
     DeweyClass: 880
     Resource type: book collection
Metis: QTVR Interface for Ancient Greek Archaeological Sites
A collection of QuickTime movies facilitating exploration of ancient Greek archaeological sites, including the Acropolis in Athens and the Temple of Aphaia in Aegina. A catalogue provides details of site regions, physical descriptions and information about exploration.
     Author: University of Texas at Austin Department of Classics
     Subjects: archaeology education, greek history
     DeweyClass: 938
     Resource type: moving images
Parthenon
Information about the Parthenon, including historical setting, types of columns, metopes, pedimental sculptures and the Parthenon frieze.
     Author: Silverman, David
     Subjects: greek history
     DeweyClass: 938
     Resource type: documents, images
Perseus Project
An interactive multimedia digital library for teaching and research designed to expand the ways in which ancient Greek literature, art and archaeology can be examined. The full text collection of Greek and Latin literature includes Julius Caesar, Cicero, Ovid, Vergil, Aeschylus, Aristotle, Euripides, Homer, Plato and Sophocles.
     Author: Tufts University
     Subjects: ancient philosophy, greek history, greek literature, latin, pottery, sculpture
     DeweyClass: 880
     Resource type: documents, image collection
Project Archelogos
Archelogos is the creation of an electronic database for the recording of all the philosophical arguments that can be extracted from the texts of the Ancient Greek philosophers, including Plato and Aristotle, according to interpretations that span two and a half millennia. Designed to be used both as a teaching and research tool. Demonstrations of the database are available.
     Author: Project Archelogos
     Subjects: ancient philosophy, greek history, philosophy education
     DeweyClass: 100
     Resource type: guide, reference documents
Thesaurus Linguae Graecae
Information about this electronic data bank of ancient Greek literature from Homer (8th century BC) to 600 AD with historiographical, lexicographical and scholiastic texts from 600 to 1453 AD.
     Author: University of California Irvine
     Subjects: greek history, greek language, greek literature
     DeweyClass: 880
     Resource type: thesaurus
University of Chicago Excavations at Isthmia
Article tracing the discovery of the temple of Poseidon in 1952 by Oscar Broneer, the director of the University of Chicago Excavations at Isthmia, and the subsequent excavation of the central plateau containing the temple, altar, surrounding buildings, and a Roman hero shrine.
     Author: University of Chicago
     Subjects: european archaeology, greek history
     DeweyClass: 938
     Resource type: document
World Lecture Hall
Set of annotated links to online courses, course descriptions, tutorials, assignments, tests and other materials used in the teaching of a wide range of subjects.
     Author: University of Texas at Austin
     Subjects: ancient history, greek history, greek literature, latin, mythology
     DeweyClass: 880
     Resource type: guide index