CHW3M - Websites - Ancient Greece

Detailed lessons from Dartmouth College covering Aegean Civilization from the Paleolithic period through the end of the Minoan Palatial era in the twelfth century B.C.
If you want to know about the Minoans, this is the website for you.

http://www.pbs.org/empires/thegreeks/

The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization

Introduction to ancient Greek history, culture, politics, art and warfare. Includes timeline from 1400 B.C. to 337 B.C., map, a look at life in Athens, and ancient Greek language lessons.
From PBS.

http://www.penn.museum/sites/Greek_World/index.html

The Ancient Greek World

From the University of Pennsylvania Museum. Topics include land and time, daily life, economics, and religion.

http://www.e-history.gr/en/index.html

Foundation of the Hellenic World

Information about the classical period, the Hellenistic Period, the Olympic Games, the Athenian law courts and much more.

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http://www.carlos.emory.edu/ODYSSEY/GREECE/welcome.html

Odyssey Online: Greece (Open in new window or tab)

an interactive journey through ancient Greece
explore works of art from collections of Emory University's Michael C. Carlos Museum and the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester
Topics covered include people, mythology, daily life, death and burial, writing and archeology

http://www.mrdowling.com/701greece.html

Electronic Passport to Ancient Greece

Brief look at the civilization and its influence on the way people live today.
Introduction to the following topics: Ancient Greece as the Cradle of Western Civilization, Greek Mythology, Homer, Sparta, Athens, Persia, The Peloponnesian War, Greek Philosophy, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and Alexander the Great

http://www.cis.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1984/2/84.02.08.x.html#b

The Athenian Court System

Acquaint students with the Athenian court system
Gives students an overview of the American court system
Emphasizes that regardless of a court’s shortcomings and problems that these legal institutions are necessary to maintain a peaceful society.

More Ancient Greece Web Sites

The British Museum: Ancient Greece
The British Museum site is full of interactive tours, simulations, and games to make the study of Ancient Greece enticing for kids. Topics include the Acropolis, Athens, Daily Life, Festivals and Games, Geography, Gods and Goddesses, Knowledge and Learning, Sparta, Time, War. You can follow the procession of the Panathenaic festival and build a virtual temple, take a virtual tour of Athens and "rope" slaves into attending Assembly. You can also command a Greek trireme, explore the battlefield at Plataia, follow an interactive story about women in Greece, and "set the scene" in a virtual house. Another option is to take an interactive tour of the Olympics, Greek theatre, and Greek festivals. Other highlights include a God and Goddesses symbol game, an interactive tour of household items, a Spartan education challenge, and a farming challenge. The Geography section features a series of zoomable maps and an interactive dive of a shipwreck. Finally, there is a "staff room" with worksheets and discussion questions to help teachers use the site. War section explores Overall, a great introduction to ancient Greece for younger students.

Perseus Project
Perseus Project is an impressive digital library for Greek and Classical resources from the Classics Department at Tufts University for primary and secondary source scholarly works that cover the history, literature and culture of the Greco-Roman world. The collection contains extensive and diverse resources including primary and secondary texts, site plans, digital images, and maps. Works are listed by author and you can browse the Greco-Roman Collection or use the search engine. Art and archaeology catalogs document a wide range of objects: vases, sculptures and sculptural groups, coins, buildings and gems. The site also has FAQs, essays, a historical overview, and an extensive library of art objects, and other resources. Special exhibits include The Ancient Olympics and Hercules. Site is updated regularly.

BBC Ancient History: Greece
BBC's History section offers an impressive array of exhibitions, activities, games, photo galleries, and other resources. The BBC Ancient History section focuses on Anglo-Saxons, Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, and Vikings. The Greece section covers five major areas: The Olympics, Athens and Democracy, Other Greek Cultures, Legends. It also includes related links to other BBC pages. The site consists of a series of extended expert essays on various topics: Ancient Greek Olympics, Alexander the Great, Lord Elgin, Fall of Minoan Civilization, Democracy, Greek tale of Jason and the Golden Fleece, and Plato's Atlantis. Visual highlights include an Ancient Greek Olympics photo gallery and a related War and Technology gallery. Plenty of great information, though the site lacks the engaging multimedia features found on other BBC History offerings.

The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization
This engaging PBS educational companion site examines Ancient Greece's Classical Period principally though a series of essays on four principal characters: Cleisthenes, Themistocles, Pericles, Socrates, and Aspasia. Each character is introduced via a video clip from the series. There are also a series of background pages on Greek culture, Greek warfare, Greek architecture, and other people and places in Greek history. Animation and simulations play an important role on the site. For instance, there is a 3D animation of the Parthenon, an interactive Greek timeline, an interactive Greek map, and audio to help you "speak like a Greek." In the Education Resources section is a multidisciplinary unit that uses television, the Internet, and other resources to explore Ancient Greece. All in all, this is an excellent introduction to Ancient Greece for students.

Internet Ancient History Sourcebook: Greece
The Internet History Sourcebooks are wonderful collections of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts for educational use by Paul Halsall of Fordham University. The Internet Ancient History Sourcebook contains hundreds of well-organized sources also includes links to visual and aural material, as art and archeology play a prominent role in the study of Ancient history. The Greece section features complete text works of Herodotus, Thucydides, Aristotle, and others, as well as primary source texts concerning the Persian and Pelopponesian wars, Athenian Democracy, Sparta, religion, and other topics. The Sourcebook also has pages designed specifically to help teacher and students: Ancient History in the Movies, Using Primary Sources, Nature of Historiography. Last update in 2007.

Classical Art Research Center: The Beazley Archive
The Beazley Archive at The University of Oxford provides an impressive set of images of the art of ancient Greco-Roman art. Major categories include: "Art", "Pottery", "Gems", "Sculpture", and "Antiquaria" and helfpul features include "Dictionary", "Databases", and "Tools." Not only are the images of high uality, but the referencing tools provide plenty of helpful context for appreciating how the objects and why they are significant.

Ancient Greece
An informative and image-laden guide to Ancient Greece, covering art and architecture, politics, Olympics, geography, mythology, peoples, war, history, and other topics. Of note is the Photo Gallery with panoramic images of Greek art. Contents include maps, biographies, and related links, though little in the way of engaging multimedia. Site last updated in 2008; some links are broken.

Ancient-Greek.org
Ancient-Greek.org is a broad introduction to Ancient Greece and is organized in eight categories: Archaeology, History, Photographs, Culture, Maps, Architecture, Museums, Art. Of note is the extensive photo gallery, which includes images of historic sites, art, and architecture. The History section contains a simple timeline and overview of Greek history, with specific focus on the Acropolis, Delphi, and Minoan Crete. It also includes a zoomable map of Ancient Greece. Though the content is sound the lack of interactivity will be disappointing for students and the lack of lesson plans disappointing for teachers.

The Greek Galleries
The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Greek Galleries is an extensive collection of Greek art. You can explore the galleries online by following four interconnected paths: a timeline illustrated with signal works of art, a menu of eighteen art objects selected for this online preview and accompanied by explanatory text, a geographical map of the Mediterranean area where the works of art were produced, and a gallery map coupled with descriptions of the newly designed spaces and a selection of art objects.

Ancient Near East and the Ancient Mediterranean World
The University of Chicago Library preserves deteriorated research materials relating to the history, art, and archaeology of the Ancient Near East and the ancient Mediterranean world. The project focuses on materials published between 1850 - 1950, drawn from two of the Library's complimentary collections: the Ancient Near East and Classics Collections. This is an excellent research collection for primary source materials.

Ancient Greek World For Kids
Ancient Greek World is a broad introduction to Ancient Greece for younger students from History for Kids. The site is essentially an extended hyperlinked essay with images covering a wide range of political, social, religious, economic, and military aspects of Ancient Greece. There is also teachers section with suggestions on how to use the site in class. Overall, it's a fine introduction for kids, though the site and its design are dated and there is a conspicuous absence of engaging multimedia.

The Ancient Greek World
Ancient Greek World is an online exhibit by the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology that explores the land, time, economy, daily life, and religion of Ancient Greece. The site is a series of hyperlinked essays with images (mostly of Greek pottery), that cover a wide range of topics. As introductions go this site is broad and thorough, though it lacks engaging multimedia and does not appear to be updated since 2002.

The Internet Classics Archive
The Internet Classics Archive lists 441 works of classical literature -- mainly Greco-Roman works -- by 59 different authors, including "user-driven commentary and 'reader's choice' Web sites." A special feature are the full-text files of many of the works available via the site. The last major update was in 2007.

Diotima
Diotima is an interdisciplinary scholarly resource on gender in the ancient Mediterranean world and as a forum for collaboration among instructors who teach courses about women and gender in the ancient world. Diotima offers course materials, essays, bibliography, images, good links to related sites, a search feature, and a section on biblical studies. Last update was in 2006.

Maecenas: Images of Ancient Greece and Rome
These photographs were taken primarily for use in teaching by a professor at the University of Buffalo and can be used for any purpose except a commercial one. This website has been assisted by grants from the Classical Association of the Empire State and the Classical Association of the Atlantic States.

Odyssey Online
The Odyssey Online project was developed to help educators teach using works of art from the ancient Near East, Egypt, Greece, Rome and Africa. Designed for elementary and middle school-aged students, the major sections include People, Daily Life, explores archaeology, Mythology, Death and Burial, and Writing. Sections include games and puzzles for kids. Last updated 2005.

BBC Schools: Ancient Greece
This BBC school section is aimed at young students and explores the Olympic Games, conflict between Athens and Sparta, and Greek Theatre. There is a Flash-generated tour of the ancient Olympic games and Greek Theatre as well as a visual story of conflict in Mytilene.

The Last Days of Socrates
The Last Days of Socrates aims to aid first year philosophy students read the Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, and the death scene from the Phaedo. It contains a hyperlinked glossary and notes and is also available in Spanish.

Historical Collections - Antiqua Medicina: From Homer to Vesalius
The University of Virginia Historical Collections and Services offers an interesting and insightful presentation on ancient medicine. The site goes "From Homer to Vesilius" though an extended series of essays illustrated via some excellent photos. Unfortunately it is a static presentation with no multimedia nor hyperlinks to related resources.

Mr. Dowling's Electronic Passport: Ancient Greece
Mr. Dowling's Electronic Passport helps kids browse the world in his virtual classroom. He introduces you to many civilizations with clear explanations, engaging graphics for kids, and "cool links". His helpful study guides, homework assignments and exams are free and available for you to print or to edit. However, the site's dated design and lack of interactivity are not so "cool."

Atlantis - True Story or Cautionary Tale?
This National Geographic article points's out that few scientists think Atlantis existed, but there remains much speculation and theories about its existence. Of note is the related video: Atlantis Volcano Devastated Ancient Egypt?

The Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology The Ure Museum has one of the largest collections of Greek ceramics in Britain. The Museum's Greek thematic section centers on Cultural Diversity in the Greek World.

Herodotus Project
The Herodotus project is a free serialized translation of Inquiries by the Greek historian Herodotus along with extensive black-and-white photography of the locations and artifacts mentioned in the book. This site is updated monthly with photographic tours that are hyperlinked with the text.