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~~ The GLORY that was GREECE ~~

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"

The Ancient Greek World: Visit different time periods in Ancient Greece and learn about daily life (women's and men's lives, schooling, housing, hunting, warfare); economy (coins,  manufacturing, trade); and religion and death (heroes, banquets, burials)

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

AESCHYLUS: AncientGreece.com and TheatreDatabase.com

ALEXANDER THE GREAT: Alexander the Great  

APHRODITE:  Aphrodite: her Power and her Art  

ARCHIMEDES: Archimedes and information from Drexel University

ARISTARCHUS: History of Mathematicians and Tufts University

ARISTOPHANES: Aristophanes and The Classic Works

ARISTOTLE:  Washington State University and Aristotle (scroll down) 

ARTEMIS: From Encyclopedia Mythica  

ATHENA: Encyclopedia Mythica and the Shrine of the Goddess Athena

ATHENIAN WOMAN: The Women of Athens

CLEISTHENES: Cleisthenes and The Development of Athenian Democracy

DEMETER: Encyclopedia Mythica

ERATOSTHENES: Eratosthenes of Cyrene

EUCLID: Euclid of Alexandria

EURIPIDES: AncientGreece.com and TheatreDatabase.com

HELEN: About Helen of Troy, Helen, and Helen of Troy

HERA: The First Greek Goddess and Encyclopedia Mythica

HERODOTUS: Herodotus, Father of Journalism (scroll down) and Herodotus of

    Halicarnassus

HIPPOCRATES: Hippocrates of Chios and Hippocrates, Father of Medicine (scroll down) 

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

MYRON: Sculpture of the Greek Classical Period

PERICLES: Pericles, the Olympian and Pericles

PINDAR: Pindar and Plato Dialogues.org

PISISTRATUS: Pisistratus

PLATO: Plato (scroll down) and Greek Philosophy: Plato

PYTHAGORAS: Pythagoras of Samos and Pythagoras and the Origins of Western

    Theology (scroll down) 

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

SOCRATES: Socrates (scroll down) and Greek Philosophy: Socrates

SOLON: Solon, Lawmaker of Athens

SOPHOCLES: Sophocles and His Tragedies; the Monologues and Poetry of Sophocles

    (both sites include other links)

SPARTAN WOMAN: The Women of Sparta and Women in Sparta

THUCYDIDES: Ancient Greece: Thucydides

ZENO: Zeno of Elea and from The School of Mathematics and Statistics

**Don't forget DATABASES! There's lots of information available in ABC-CLIO Ancient & Medieval Eras ... Search for themes and individuals! Get your database access card (I.d.s and Passwords) at the library

**Don't forget to CITE YOUR SOURCES! It's easy: click on Citation Machine (also accessible from the library homepage)

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E. O'Keeffe, High School Librarian, Mohonasen High School,
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Last modified on 05.07.2008