Greek history and G Guide - Resources and Review

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.
 
Information about the Parthenon, including historical setting, types of columns, metopes, pedimental sculptures and the Parthenon frieze.
 
Includes links to resources about the ancient world, such as art, archaeology, papyrology, epigraphy, philosophy and literature, along with faculty and prospectus information.
 
A collection of images of ancient Greek artefacts. Includes prehistoric items, sculpture, pottery, minor art and bronzes.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
Set of annotated links to online courses, course descriptions, tutorials, assignments, tests and other materials used in the teaching of classical studies.
 
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.
 
Links organised by resource type including texts, projects and bibliographies, field projects and site
specific reports, course material, teaching resources and museums.
 
Information about the history of Greek costume. Includes the Minoan civilisation, ancient Greece, Roman times, Byzantium and the sixteenth
eighteenth centuries.
 
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.
 
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.
 
Links to useful Internet resources for classicists of all types. A list of sites covering the history and archaeology of ancient Italy is on the Roman Italy Project web page.
 
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.
 
Information about Ancient Greece covering archaeology, daily life, economy, and religion and death.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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