Resources for Athens

• The Ancient City of Athens: a photographic archive of the archaeological and architectural remains of ancient Athens.
• Reconstructions
  • Reconstruction of 5th century Athens
  • Reconstrucion of the Agora in the 5th century
• METIS: A 3D Virtual Reality view of many buildings and places in Ancient Athens [requires Quicktime]

Geography Resources

• Google Maps
  • Geography Quiz: important locations for Athens in the early fifth century BCE
  • Midterm Supplement: including Persian War and places in Athens
  • Final Supplement: including Peloponnesian War and places in Athens
  • Haverford vs. Athens: Overlay of a map of fifth century Athens on Haverford's campus
• Google Earth
  • Geography Quiz: important locations for Athens in the early fifth century BCE
  • Midterm Supplement: including Persian War and places in Athens
  • Final Supplement: including Peloponnesian War and places in Athens
  • Haverford vs. Athens: Overlay of a map of fifth century Athens on Haverford's campus
  • 3D Acropolis (current state) by Dimitris Kaloudas
  • Ancient Athens by Dimitris Tsalkanis (Note: this model shows Athens c. 150 CE, and many of the buildings would not have been present in the fifth-century BCE)
• Maps
  • Map of Attica in the late fifth century: includes list of tribes and demes
  • Map of Athens and Piraeus in the late fifth century
  • Map of Athens intra muros in the late fifth century

Ancient Athens in the News

• Through Death, Glory: A disputed Greek vase offers a meditation on heroism' By CHRISTIAN C. SAHNER [8/11/2007]
• Video Introduction to the New Acropolis Museum [YouTube]
• Agora of the Attic town of Aexonides Halai disovered [3/3/2007]

Reviews and Views on '300' (2007)

• ‘300 — Fact or Fiction' by Victor Davis Hanson [3/28/2007]
• 'Spartans Overwhelmed at Thermopylae, Again' by Eugene N. Borza [3/22/2007]
• Review: '300' Reasons to Cry' by Jow Morgenstern [3/17/2007]
• Review: '300 Shocker: Hollywood takes a detour to reality' By 'David Kahane' [3/12/2007]
• Review: 'Sparta? No. This is madness.' by Ephraim Lytle [3/11/2007]
• Rewview: 'A Movie Only a Spartan Could Love: 300.' by Dana Stevens [3/8/2007]
• Iranian official lashes out at Hollywood movie "300" for insulting Persian civilization [3/2007]
• Popular Mechanics goes "Behind the Scenes of 300' [1/2007]
• History and the Movie “300” by Victor Davis Hanson [10/11/2006]

Resources for Architecture and Archaeology

• Greek Temple Basics: introduction to temple types and orders of architecture (doric and ionic).
• Official website of the excavations in the Athenian Agora, including an extensive Quicktime VR site tour, site plans, and pictures of finds.
• Zea Harbor Project: excavations of the Zea Harbor in the Piraeus: great pictures of the challenges of underwater and urban archaeology, and the finds.

Resources for Athenian Religion

• Compiled List of Festivals and Sacrifices in Athens
• Annotated Athenian Calendar
• HMERA: calculate what the Athenian calendar would like like this year.

Resources for Athenian Daily Life

• Athenian Daily Life: Agora, Politics, Domestic Life, Religious Life, Warfare, Education

Resources for War and Warfare

• 4Hoplites: a guide to reenacting hoplite warfare including interesting pictures and commentary

Resources for Greek Mythology

• Perseus: The most useful site for studying ancient Greece and Rome.Includes maps, texts, pictures and more.
• Classical Myth: An excellent survey of Greek mythology.
• Bulfinch's Mytholgy: The old standard, available on-line.
• Greek Mythological Link: an amazingly comprehensive site; better for tracking down details and variants. between myths than for a narrative presentation of myths.
• Diotima: Devoted mainly to the study of women and gender in antiquity.
• Classics and Mediterranean Archaeology: A comprehensive catalogue of sites related to Classics.
• Encyclopedia Mythica is an encyclopedia of mytholgy, folklore, and legend.
• Parody and Humor
  • "Olympus Burger": a cartoon short in which Zeus, Poseidon, Aphroditie, Apollo and Hades work at the fast-food chain Olympus Burger under the watchful eye of assistant manager Craig
  • Prometheus: a bi-weekly cartoon chronicling the titan's suffering (and home life)

Resources for Demosthenes

• A video introduction to Demosthenes Against Neaira [YouTube]

• A brief summary of the Iliad and its principal characters
• The Trojan War in Ancient Art
• The Homer Homepage: a useful collection of texts, links, and more (although, sadly, many of the links are broken).
• The Chicago Homer: a multilingual database that uses the search and display capabilities of electronic texts to make the distinctive features of Early Greek epic accessible to readers with and without Greek.
• Selections from the Iliad read in Greek
• A list of deaths in the Iliad
• Achilles, Odysseus, Agamemnon: Homer on Military Leadership, a paper delivered at the Pentagon
• The official website of Troy movie

Greek Music

• Ancient Greek Music and Music Instruments: an excellent overview of Greek music, including theoretical approaches, the development of different tuning systems, and abundant examples of archaeological evidence.
• Research on Greek music by J.C. Franklin: several articles on various topics, descriptions of recreated music for Greek plays
• Recordings of Greek music by J.C. Franklin
  • Hymn to Nemesis by Mesomedes of Crete (1st cent. CE)
  • Lysander of Sikyon 1
  • Lysander of Sikyon 2
  • Hymn to Aphrodite by Sappho (7-6th cent. BCE)
  • Paean by Athenaeus (2nd cent. BCE)
  • Just for Fun: Dance Remix of the Orestes fragment [Part 1 Part 2]
• Extant Fragments of Ancient Greek Music by Stephan Hegal (note: these recordings are computer-generated, so the timbre of the music is inaccurate; the site does list the context of these fragments, and so provides a good sense of the types of ancient music that survives).
• Instruments (note most of these recordings are of Hellenistic and Roman-era styles)
  • Description of Aulos (and recordings)
  • Description of Cithara (and recordings)
• Homeric Performance
  • Summary of elements by Danek and Hagel
  • Recreation of Demodokos' song about Ares and Aphrodite: Od. 8, 267-366 [mp3]
• Musical notation on papyrus on the second-century CE: this site shows the papyrus and allows you to listen to lines of music in several different styles.

Resources for Plato and Socrates

• Plato and His Dialogues: an excellent collection of resources for Plato's Dialogues by Bernard SUZANNE
  [biography] [works] [history of interpretation] [schematic arrangement of dialogues intro tetrologies] [index of persons and locations] [detailed chronology]
• Plato on Rhetoric and Poetry: Ion, Republic, Gorgias, Phaedrus
• Diogenes Laertius on Socrates, from On the Lives of the Philosphers
• Athens' Prison (τ? δεσμωτ?ριον)
• 'Hemlock Poisoning and the Death of Socrates: Did Plato Tell the Truth?' by ENID BLOCH
• Images: Paintings, Busts, Mosaics
  • Jacques-Louis David, [The Death of Socrates], 1787, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
  • Daniel Nicholas Chodowiecki, [The death of Socrates?], 18th - 19th century, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
  • Johann Friedrich Greuter, Socrates (?) and His Students, after Giovanni..., 17th century, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
  • Antoine Louis Romanet, Aglae, 18th - 19th century, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
  • Pietro Testa ( il Lucchesino), The Symposium, 1648, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco