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GREEK LANGUAGE, LITERATURE, AND CIVILIZATION

Classical Revival Row Houses, Salamanca Place

UNESCO World Heritage Site, Hobart Tasmania, Australia
©Kristin Lord 1996

LINKS TO WEBSITES OF INTEREST

Metasites:

· The Hellenic Ministry of Culture has several metasites:

1. Click on a link on the main page to an interactive map allowing selection of any area of Greece. This map is in turn linked to archaeological sites, museums, and monuments.
2. navigation page with links to several major sites

3. alphabetical list of archaeological museums and archeological sites

the College of the Holy Cross
The University of Kentucky
World Civilization Virtual Library
Stoa metasite
Diotima(links to women's studies sites)
Perseus from Tufts University
AriadNe metasite from the European Union (not all links are working)
Gnomon online; site maintained in German, English, and French
Eugene Cotter of Seton Hall University
Classics and the Study of the Ancient Mediterranean World: University of Toronto metasite
Web bibliography from Louisiana State University
Ancient World Mapping Center from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents at Oxford University; covers papyrology, epigraphy, manuscripts
portal of Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS), sponsored by Columbia University

General Archaeology:

National Archeological Museum of Athens, Greece
Greek and Roman treasures from the Louvre in Paris
Perseus has a huge amount of information about most archaeological sites. To get full information write in place name. In particular, check out the material on Mycenae, Pylos, and Troy, courtesy of Thomas Martin.
Vitruvius search engine
website of Michael Lahanas, a Greek medical physicist based in Germany who has developed a site on all periods of Greek archaeology as an avocation

Greece outside Attica:

Greek colonization information: In addition to material from Persius (check out especially Didyma, Ephesos, Syracuse, Segesta, and Miletus), take a look at:

                   1. Michele Gallo's website on the Valley of the Temples at Agrigento
                   2. The UNESCO World Heritage Site photographs from Cyrene
                   3. Information from Kusadasi.net on Priene and other Greek city-states which are

now part of Turkey

Delphi information from Greek Ministry of Culture and Perseus
information on Knossos, Mycenae, and Tiryns from the Greek Ministry of Culture
Photographs of Eleusis by David Gill
information about Santorini/Thera from the Thera Foundation
information about and photographs of Delos from Michael Lahanas
information about Troy from the Biblical Archaeology Review (a scholarly review with secular credentials); to get to Troy, go to “Search” and check under 1998 results
Troy information from Perseus
The Search for Homer’s Ithaca, with updated information

Athens and Attica:

information on the Acropolis in Athens from the Greek Ministry of Culture
The Athenian Agora: overview from the American School of Classical Studies
Of the plethora of websites available concerning the Acropolis, why not take a look at:

1. overview by University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
2. computer model from Learning Sites

Information on Parthenon friezes from British Museum (type in "Elgin Marbles")
Tumulus of Marathon, from Greek Ministry of Culture
Mike Barrett's Athens Survival Guide(mostly commercial links, some archaeology and culture)

Vase paintings and sculpture:

Vase paintings and sculpture from the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford
Vase paintings at the British Museum
Red figure vase with herm(Tampa)
Greek geometric art from the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
photo (on University of Oregon site) of vase painting of Croesus on the pyre
photo of Archaic statue of Cleobis and Biton in Delphi Archaeological Museum

Philosophy and political thought:

Early philosophy from Washington State University
Athenian democracy metasite edited by Christopher W. Blackwell
Spartan life and thought
Plato search engine by Bernard Suzanne
Aristotle links by Scott Moore of Baylor University
Hellenistic philosophy links from Fordham University
two of many metasites concerning all strands of philosophy, not just ancient: NewJersey City University metasite and Peter Suber's Guide to Philosophy on the Internet

Early Greek Literature:

The Homer Homepage
Sappho sites maintained by Robin Michell-Boyask and Alix North

Theater and Music:

Reed College site for undergraduates reading Greek tragedy (includes some basic bibliography)
Didaskalia metasite, dedicated to ancient Greek and Roman drama in performance (King’s College, University of London)
Michael Lahanas’s illustrated list of dramatic paraphernalia
Michael Lahanas’s timeline of Greek dramatic masks
Greek drama site from Eugene Cotter
The Euripides Home Page
Selected web resources on Sophocles
comprehensive information about Aristophanes from Perseus
Barbara McManus on the structure of the Greek theater, with photographs
information on the theater at Epidaurus, complete with 3-D model, courtesy of the Foundation of the Hellenic World
introduction to Greek tragedy, from Brooklyn College
Cuts of Greek music on Real Audio from Austrian Academy of Sciences. (The basic version of Real Audio, which you will need to access this site, can be readily downloaded if it is not already on your computer.)
UK site with information by Calvin Bower on ancient music

Ancient Greek religion:

chapter by Luc Brisson on sexual ambivalence (i.e., hermaphroditism)
site on women in Greek myths by Ailia Athena
Temple of Aphaia at Aegina from Perseus
Eleusinian Mysteries information from Perseus
Information on Dionysus festivals, including the Anthesteria, from Hardy Hanson
Website on worship of Cybele
Temple of Isis at Delos
the temple of Aesclepius at Epidaurus

the Olympic and other ancient games:

information about Olympia and the ancient Olympics from Perseus site
“The Real Story of the Ancient Olympic Games:” University of Pennsylvania Museum
Olympia and the Olympic games from the Greek Ministry of Culture

· Virtual Museum of the Olympic Games: Dartmouth College

· Nemea home page from the University of California, Berkeley

· the Ohio State University excavations at Isthmia

· information on the Pythian games can be found under Delphi (see archaeology of Greece outside Attica, above)

· information on the Panathenaic festival from Brooklyn College

Greek history:

· article from The Guardian Online about typhus as the source for the plague at Athens

Everyday Life:

Information on ancient Greek women's clothing from University of Kentucky
Men's clothing can be seen here (you may need to scroll down to 'chiton')
5000 Years of Greek Jewelry(check the Classical and Hellenistic information)
Coinage from Athens
Recipes from ancient Greece and Rome
Site from the University of Virginia on ancient medicine
Information on triremes(ancient Greek warships) from the Trireme Trust
Matthew Amt’s Greek hoplite page, with an emphasis on historical reenactments; contains many links
virtual tour from the University of Pennsylvania Museum

Alexandrian, Byzantine, and modern Greece, and Greek influences (just a taste):

Universtiy of Oregon sites on Ptolemaic Alexandria
The Benaki Museum in Athens has a huge variety of artifacts from all periods of Greek history and culture, particularly Byzantine and modern. Check out its holdings of religious art, clothing, and manuscripts of modern Greek writers.
GreekToday, a recently written introduction to modern Greek from authors affiliated with Dartmouth and Princeton
Classical architecture: influence of ancient Greek and Roman architecture on parts of Australia (e.g., St. George's Church in Hobart, Tasmania), parts of Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom (the Pevsner Architectural Guides), and the world (archINFORM on classicism and early classicism). For classicism in the art of the period, see the general overview from the British Museum.
for more information on modern Greece, link to my page on the subject

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