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The Glory That Was Greece

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Time Period

 

The Greeks to 480 BCE: Homer, class rule and the birth of philosophy; Sparta and Athens

 

Greeks, Politics, & War: Athens, democracy, & humanism; War against Persia; the Peloponnesian War; Sparta

 

Alexander's Empire Disintegrates (to about 450 BCE)

 

The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization (PBS): People, places, the Greek alphabet, and more. Check out the Greek Interactive, where you can learn how to "speak like a Greek"

 

Odyssey Online: Greece: Ancient Greek daily life, people, mythology, death and burial, and more

 

Who is Who in Antiquity and Who is Who in Mythology: Both sites provide "snapshots" of a variety of Ancient Greeks. Scroll through names in the left margin

 

The History of Costume: Scroll down to Ancient Greece

 

 

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People

 

AESCHYLUS from AncientGreece.com and TheatreDatabase.com

 

ALEXANDER THE GREAT

 

APHRODITE: Her Power and her Art

 

ARCHIMEDES. More information from Drexel University

 

ARISTARCHUS from History of Mathematicians and Tufts University

 

ARISTOPHANES. More from The Classic Works

 

ARISTOTLE (scroll down) and more from Washington State University

 

ARTEMIS from Encyclopedia Mythica

 

ATHENA from Encyclopedia Mythica and the Shrine of the Goddess Athena

 

ATHENIAN WOMEN

 

CLEISTHENES and The Development of Athenian Democracy

 

DEMETER from Encyclopedia Mythica

 

ERATOSTHENES OF CYRENE

 

EUCLID OF ALEXANDRIA

 

EURIPIDES from AncientGreece.com and TheatreDatabase.com

 

HELEN OF TROY. More about Helen of Troy.

 

HERA THE FIRST GREEK GODDESS. More from Encyclopedia Mythica

 

HERODOTUS OF HALICARNASSUS

 

HIPPOCRATES OF CHIOS

 

HOMER (scroll down) and Homer's Iliad and Odyssey Page

 

MYRON: Sculpture of the Greek Classical Period

 

PERICLES, THE OLYMPIAN and more from PBS

 

PINDAR and more from Plato Dialogues.org

 

PISISTRATUS

 

PLATO (scroll down) and more from Greek Philosophy

 

PYTHAGORAS OF SAMOS

 

SAPPHO and Isle of Lesbos: Poetry (includes poetry translations)

 

SOCRATES (scroll down) and from Greek Philosophy

 

SOLON, LAWMAKER OF ATHENS

 

SOPHOCLES AND HIS TRAGEDIES. The Monologues and Poetry of Sophocles (both sites include other links)

 

SPARTAN WOMEN and Women in Sparta

 

THUCYDIDES from Ancient Greece

 

ZENO from The School of Mathematics and Statistics