Primary Source Documents
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GENERAL:
19th-Century Photography of Ancient Greece
The Amazing Ancient World of Western Civilization: Greece
Ancient Coins in the Museum of Antiquity
The Ancient Gods
AncientGreece.com
Ancient Greece (HistoryForKids)
Ancient Greece (History Links 101)
AncientGreece.org
Ancient Greece - Science and Technology Facts
Ancient Greece WebQuest
Ancient Greek Civilization
Ancient Greek Music
The Ancient Greek World
The Ancient World Web
Archaeonia
: A Journey Through Ancient Greece
Art History Resources on the Web - Ancient Greece
Barrington
Atlas
of the Greek & Roman World
The Boston Museum of Fine Arts - Greek Collection
The British Museum - Greek Collection
Bulfinch's Mythology
Classical Mythology Online
Classics Search Engines
Cleopatra Multimedia Guide to the Ancient World - Greece
Color-coded
timeline
of Ancient Greek History
Cuisines of the Ancient World - Ancient and Modern Greece
Cultural Map of Hellas (Greek Ministry of Culture)
Diotima
: Materials for the Study of Women and Gender in the Ancient World
Exploring Ancient World Cultures - Greece
A Guide to Ancient Athens (Online University)
Greece: Internet Ancient Sourcebook
Greek Jewelry: 5000 Years of Tradition
Greek & Roman Art - Metropolitan Museum of Art
Greek Mythology
Greek Mythology Link
Greek Pottery Images
Greek Theater
Greek Women Philosophers
The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization (PBS)
Hellenism Network
Historical Atlas of the Mediterranean
History of Greek Architecture
Images from World History: Greece
The Internet Classics Archive
Looking at the Art of Ancient Greece & Rome (Getty Museum)
Louvre Museum, Paris - Classical Greece Collection
Maecenas:
Images of Ancient Greece and Rome
map
- "Ancient Greece"
map
- "
Greek and Phoenician Colonies and Trade"
map
- "Natural Resources of the Aegean"
Mathematicians Born in Greece
Medicina Antiqua
(Ancient Medicine)
Medicine in Ancient Greece
Metis- A QTVR Interface for Ancient Greek Archaeological Sites
Museum of Ancient Inventions
Museums In Greece
National Archaeological Museum of Athens
The New Greek Galleries (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
NM's Creative Impulse- Greece
Odyssey Online: Greece
The Olympian Gods
Origins of the Greek Alphabet
An Overview of Archaic & Classical Greek History
(The Perseus Project)
The Perseus Digital Library
Pre-Historic Archaeology of the Aegean (Dartmouth College)
Slavery in Ancient Greece
A Smaller History of Greece
- William Smith
Spotlight on the Ancient Greeks
WWW-VL History Index - Ancient Greeks
ARCHAIC GREECE:
Bulfinch's Mythology, The Age of Fable - The Fall of Troy
The Foundation of the Greek
Polis
"Gods and Heroes of Bronze Age Europe--The roots of Odysseus"
The Greek
Kouroi
The Greek Lyric
The Homer Page
Homer's
Iliad
How To Draw/Build A Classic Minoan Labyrinth
Images of the Trojan War Myth
Introduction to Homer and the Odyssey
Knossos
Legend of the Trojan War
The Long-Haired Mycenaeans - HistoryWiz
map
- "Greece in the Bronze Age"
map
- "Mycenaean and Minoan civilizations c. 2000 BCE"
map
- "Greece and Its Colonies, 550 BCE"
map
- "
Greek Cities and Colonies of the Archaic Age"
Minoan Civilization (The Iraklion Museum, Crete)
The Minoans
"
Minos & Agamemnon" - lecture by Prof. Rempel (Western New England College)
The Mycenaeans : Barbarians & Bureaucrats
Mysteries of the Minoans
Outline of Homer's Iliad
The Prehistoric Archaeology of the Aegean
Study Guide for Homer's Odyssey
HELLENIC GREECE:
The Ancient City of Athens
Ancient Greece- Sparta
Ancient Greek Music
The Ancient Greek Theater
The Ancient Olympic Games Virtual Museum
Ancient Olympics Guide --
Archaeology Magazine
, July/August, 2004 issue
"The Athenian Origins of Direct Democracy" (History Guide)
"Basic Ideas in Greek Mathematics" - article by Michael Fowler (Univ. of VA)
Dēmos:
Classical Athenian Democracy
Everything Spartan
Family Tree of Greek Mythology - large
chart
The Greek Alphabet and Its Variations
"Homer and the Greek Renaissance, 900-600BC" (The History Guide)
Hypatia - Great Woman Mathematician
"Early Greek Science -- Thales to Aristotle" - article by Michael Fowler (Univ. of VA Physics Dept.}
Greek Art & Architecture
"Greek Science and Its Influence on Western Civilization" - Tanner Brunsdale
"Greek Thought- Socrates, Plato and Aristotle" (The History Guide)
The Hellenic World
The History of Sparta (A&E)
Index of Ancient Greek Mathematics (Univ. of St. Andrews, UK)
Life in Ancient Greece Reflected in the Coinage of Corinth
map
- "
The Acropolis"
map
- "Athenian League & Peloponnesian War, 435 BCE"
Ostracism in Athens
Outline of Antigone
Outline of Herodotus
Outline of Oedipus the King
The Parthenon
The Peloponnesian War
The Persian Wars
Plato (
Encyclopedia of Philosophy
)
Part I
Part II
The Sophists (
Encyclopedia of Philosophy
)
Socratic Method & Scientific Method
Sparta Revisited
Timeline
of Sparta and Athens
Trade & Barter in Ancient Greece
Who Were the Greek Historians?
HELLENISTIC GREECE:
Aristotle (
Encyclopedia of Philosophy
)
Part I
Part II
Part III
Part IV
Part V
Part VI
Epicurus (
Encyclopedia of Philosophy
)
"From Polis to Cosmopolis--Hellenization and Alexander the Great, 323-30BC" (The History Guide)
"Hellenistic Greece" - lecture by Professor Gerhard Rempel - Western New England College
Hellenistic Philosophy
map
- "
The Empire of Alexander the Great"
map
- "Alexander's Empire"
Skepticism (
Encyclopedia of Philosophy
)
Stoicism (
Encyclopedia of Philosophy
)
Web Links
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How to read a primary source document
Why Study History Through Primary Sources
2nd millenium-?:
Linear B clay tablet
1st millenium?:
poetry of Archilochus, a Greek mercenary
800-110 BCE:
Several Documents on Hellenic Religious Beliefs
8c BCE:
"Polyphemos," from Homer's
Odyssey
8c BCE:
Homeric Hymns
750-330 BCE:
Slavery in Ancient Greece (several documents)
750-650 BCE:
Documents of the Hoplite Revolution
750-650 BCE:
Documents on the Rise of Hellenic Tyranny
700-300 BCE:
The Lot of the Hellenic Woman
7c BCE:
Selections from Greek Lyric Poets
640-561 BCE:
Fragmented Documents by Solon
640 BCE:
Tyrtaeus' poetry
490 BCE:
Pericles' Funeral Oration - from Thucydides
480 BCE:
from Herodotus - Leonidas and the 300 Spartans at Thermopylae
470 BCE - 175 CE:
Accounts of the Hellenic Games
432 BCE:
Thucydides'
History of the Peloponnesian War
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Archidamus Characterizes the Strengths of Sparta
432 BCE:
Thucydides'
History of the Peloponnesian War
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Differences Between Sparta and Athens
430 BCE:
Herodotus - On the Kings of Sparta
430-110 BCE:
Reports on the Origins of Athens
mid-5c BCE:
Pericles Gains Support with his Construction Programs
5c BCE:
The Allegory of the Cave" -- from Plato's
Republic
5c BCE:
Pericles' Last Speech
5c BCE:
Plato, "The Character of Democracy," from
The Republic
4c BCE:
Plato - On the Immortality of the Soul
4c BCE:
Aristotle, "The Doctrine of the Mean", from
The Nicomachean Ethics
4c BCE:
Aristotle, "The Four Causes," from
The Physics
4c BCE:
Aristotle - On the Polis from
The Republic
4c BCE:
The Hippocratic Oath
4c BCE:
Xenophon - On Men and Women
399 BCE:
Plato -
The Death of Socrates -
Socrates' Apology
395 BCE:
Thucydides - On the Early History of the Hellenes
390 BCE:
Xenophon - The Customs of Spartans
350 BCE:
The Athenian Constitution (written by Aristotle)
Section 1
Section 2
Section 3
340 BCE:
Aristotle - On the Lacedaemonian Constitution
336 BCE:
Demosthenes Exhorts Athenians to Resist Alexander
331 BCE:
Diodorus Describes the Macedonian Plunder of Persepolis
330 BCE:
Aristotle- On a Good Wife
Aeschylus
:
Agamemnon
(Internet Classics Archive)
The Persians
(Internet Classics Archive)
The Seven Against Thebes
(Internet Classics Archive)
Aristophanes
:
The Birds
(Internet Classics Archive)
The Clouds
(Internet Classics Archive)
The Frogs
(Internet Classics Archive)
The Wasps
(Internet Classics Archive)
Aristotle
:
The Athenian Constitution
(Internet Classics Archive)
Metaphysics
(Internet Classics Archive)
Poetics
(Internet Classics Archive)
Politics
(Internet Classics Archive)
Euripides
:
Electra
(Internet Classics Archive)
Medea
(Internet Classics Archive)
Orestes
(Internet Classics Archive)
The Suppliants
(Internet Classics Archive)
The Trojan Women
(Internet Classics Archive)
Homer
:
The Iliad
(Internet Classics Archive)
The Odys
sey
(Internet Classics Archive)
Plato
:
Apology
(Internet Classics Archive)
Laws
(Internet Classics Archive)
The Republic
(Internet Classics Archive)
138 BCE:
Second Delphic Hymn
100:
Plutarch,
De Alexandri Magni Fortuna aut Virtute
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Alexander's Place in History
2c:
Ptolemaic Solar System
1819:
Thomas Jefferson - I Am an Epicurean
Ten Commandments of Good Historical Writing