Greece

Greek Mythology Link (see people, places, search for information on a mythological name, etc.) Most Greek myths seem to date from the Mycenean period, and may preserve some authentic history, distorted through years of oral tradition when the Greeks lost literacy during the Dark Ages. (Scroll down for the links.)

Barbarians and Bureaucrats: Minoans, Mycenaeans, and the Greek Dark Ages: a set of internally linked pages for a first-year World cultures class at Washington State University

Dr. J’s Illustrated tours of Mycenean sites

Mycenae includes a number or short “lectures”

Tiryns

Pylos

Perseus Web site on Mycenae Click on the NUMBERS (e.g. 1990.30.0080) to view the photos.

The spread of Mycenean Culture in the Bronze Age Mediterranean

The Movements of the Sea Peoples

Natural Resources in the Aegean

Linear B

Many clay Linear B tablets were found at Pylos, accidentally preserved by a fire; deciphering the writing system has made it possible for us to know a lot about Mycenean culture:

Linear A and Linear B tablets from Crete

Linear B descriptions of the script with illustrations of the symbols

The Linear B tablets and Mycenean Social, Political, Economic Organization from course notes of Jeremy B. Rutter, Chairman of the Classics Department at Dartmouth College

Names of Gods found in the Linear B tablets

Obituary of John Chadwick, who deciphered Linear B with Michael Ventris

(gives a short history of the decipherment)

Palace of Nestor at Pylos a discussion, with some illustrations, of what we know about this site, including what we know about labor and local economy from the tablets.

An apparent confused memory of Mycenean writing in Homer's Iliad

Archaic and Classical Period:

Map of Greece in the Archaic Period

Thomas Martin's Historical Overview in Perseus, Chapter 5 on the Archaic period, may be useful; 5.16 concerns the hoplites and has links to pictures of hoplites in armor and a discussion in a primary text about an armorer's goals in making a breastplate.

Dr. J's illustrated lecture on Archaic Greece

The Olympic Games were founded in the Archaic period and continued for a millenium.:

	Dr. J's tour of Olympia, site of the ancient games
	the ancient Olympics (from the University of Pennsylvania Museum)
	the ancient Olympics (from Archaeology Magazine)
	Exhibit about the Olympics at the Perseus web site Learn more about the events of the ancient games, the site, the social context, the Olympic Truce, the Olympic spirit, and stories about some ancient champions, with pictures from the Perseus collection. It was said of Milo of Kroton, for instance, that "Another of his favorite exhibitions was tying a cord around his forehead, holding his breath, and breaking the cord with his bulging forehead veins."
	Another nice web site on the ancient Olympics (you have to register, but it's free)

Dr. J's Color-Coded Timeline of the Classical Period (from the Ionian Revolt to battle of Chaeroneia) inlcudes links to some of her other web pages

Location of the Major Temples and Sanctuaries in the Greek Homeland

Dr J’s Illustrated tours:

Corinth

Epidauros (famed for healing sanctuary and the best preserved ancient theater)

Delphi

Delos

Dr. J's Illustrated lectures:

Ancient theater

the Mythic hero (most illustrations are missing at the moment)

the Persian Wars

Map of the Athenian Empire and the Peloponnesian League

Illustrated Road to the Recovery of Ancient Buildings a discussion of all the things that have damaged ancient buildings.

Doctor J on what Athens and America have in common – funeral oration, tomb of unknown soldier, etc.)

"Thermopylae, the Alamo of Greece" from the "Sparta" web site.

Athens

City of Athens an image archive from Kevin T. Glowacki and Nancy L. Klein of the Department of Classical Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington.

Dr J’s Illustrated tours:

the Athenian Acropolis

the Athenian Agora

the Athenian Keramikos (cemetery)

Dr. J's Illustrated lectures:

The Parthenon marbles

Pericles' Funeral Oration

Tour the Agora of Athens You get a map of the agora with buildings you can click on for more information and photographs. There is less information here than in Perseus, but for some buildings there are drawings of (reconstructions) of the buildings, as well as the only photograph I've found of a Herm (click on the small square at the inside NW corner of the Agora.) There is also some information about the use of various buildings.

The Parthenon Marbles (and the repeated attempts to get them returned to Greece)

The Structure of the Athenian Government

Sparta

	Resources for the study of Sparta
	Perseus web site on Sparta (scroll down and click on the numbers (e.g. 1990.30.0116), not the words that look like internet links)

Miscellaneous

	Images of Orality and Literacy in Greek Iconography of the 5th - 3rd Centuries BCE The Greek adaptation of the Phoenician alphabet (probably around 750 BC) made possible widespread literacy, at least among men. In Athens, it appears that most male citizens had at least minimal literacy. There are a number of vase paintings depicting schools where boys are learning to read (probably Homer) and there are a few vases showing women with scrolls as well.
	Scenes from a school
	The Ancient Greek World with sections on Daily Life, Economy and Trade, and Religion
	The reconstructed trireme, the Olympias (scroll way down (off the bottom of the initial screen) for links from the Perseus site to photos from the trireme trust)
	Everyday life in Ancient Greece (from Xenophon)
	Women in Ancient Greece

Hellenistic Period:

	Alexander the Great's Home Page
	Alexander defeats the Persians 331 BC
	Alexander's Route
	The Hellenistic World in 240 BCE
	The Hellenistic World in 90 BCE
	What happened to the Library of Alexandria?
	Hypatia of Alexandria a woman who was a mathematician, astronomer, and Philosopher
	Archimedes a page devoted to the Greek mathematician Archimedes, whose inventions helped the city of Syracuse hold out against the Romans for some time. This page should be especially interesting to mathematicians (several of his famous problems are explained), engineers, and anyone interested in military technology and inventions.
	Measuring the solar system
	How the Greeks used geometry to understand the stars