Web Resources for Greek Culture
Web Resources for Greek Culture
The Ancient Greek World. On-line exhibit at the University of Pennsylvania featuring sections on Land and Archaeological Time, Daily Life, Economy, Religion, and Death.
Ancient City of Athens, images and information about the monuments of Athens.
Andrew Wilson's The Classics Pages, over 500 pages of news, information, games and controversy about the life, literature, art and archaeology of the ancient world of Greece & Rome.
Dr. J's Illustrated Sites of Greece combines images with nice descriptions and explanations of their significance.
Have a question about your favorite hero or god? Check out Encyclopedia Mythica. Interested in more mythology? Theoi Greek Mythology: Exploring Mythology in Classical Literature and Art is the place.
The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization. The PBS miniseries website features 3-D animation of the Parthenon, interactive maps, Life in Athens, and biographies of Cleisthenes, Themistocles, Pericles, Aspasia, and Socrates.
Internet Ancient History Source Book on Greece. Links to texts (in English translation) and (a few) images sorted by historical periods, events, and cultural categories.
Tom Martin's extensive Overview of Archaic and Classical Greek History (political, military, cultural, religious aspects of ancient Greece).
Perseus Project, an evolving digital library on ancient Greece. Images, texts, maps, essays, on-line Greek-English lexicon, plus much more.
Interior of the Parthenon, Athens, ca. 447-432 BCE
Photos: Temple of Apollo with Acrocorinth in the background. Interior of the Parthenon from the east; two people standing roughly where the cult statue of Athena Parthenos would have stood. Photographs copyright © 2000 by John Gruber-Miller.