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Ancient Art, Mythology, and Archaeology Resources

• But first, some chronologies
  • Time Line of Greek History and Literature
  • Bronze Age chronologies and terminology
  • Aegean Neolithic and Bronze Age Chronologies
  • A Brief Chronology of Roman History

• The Perseus Project: An Evolving Digital Library
  • What Perseus includes so far
  • Unified Searching across images, sites, buildings, artifacts, secondary articles, and primary texts (example: Herakles)
  • Art objects (vases, sculptures, coins), archaeological sites, and buildings
  • General Encyclopedia
  • Andrew Stewart, One Hundred Greek Sculptors: Their Careers and Extant Works
  • Art periods and chronologies
  • Greek, Latin, and English Texts
  • Tom Martin's extensive Overview of Archaic and Classical Greek History (political, military, cultural, religious aspects of ancient Greece)
  • Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (articles on over 5,000 Greco-Roman sites; example: Delphi)
  • Shapes of Greek Vases (with links to Perseus)
  • Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome

• Mythology (bold = especially handy)
  • Encyclopedia Mythica has major sections on Greek mythology and Greek heroic legend.
  • Classical Myth: The Ancient Sources
    • The Olympian Gods: Images and Texts
    • Attributes of the Gods in Iconography
  • The Beazley Archivehas a useful dictionary linked from the bottom of the page(offers illustrated descriptions of characters from Greek myth, art and architectural terms, also some maps and place names.)
  • The Greek Mythology Link (lots of material but a somewhat confusing presentation at times)
  • ArtMagick is a non-profit virtual art gallery displaying paintings and poetry from art movements of the 19th and 20th centuries (for example, Romantic, Symbolist, Pre-Raphaelite and Art Nouveau). Search on "Greek" or "Mythology" for lots of paintings.

• Miscellaneous, esp. Archaeology
  • The Valley of the Kings: Theban Mapping Project
  • Olympia and the Olympic Games
    • The Real Story of the Ancient Olympics
    • The Ancient Olympics
    • The Ancient Olympic Games Virtual Museum
    • The Modern Olympic games of 1896
    • "Olympia" in the Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites
  • Nemea and the Nemean Games
  • Metis: QTVR Interface For Ancient Greek Archaeological Sites
  • The Prehistoric Archaeology of the Aegean
  • The Ancient Greek World (from the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology)
  • AERIA - Antikensammlung Erlangen Internet Archive (extensive photo collection; example: Aphrodite Kallipygos)
  • Bearers of Meaning: the Ottilia Buerger Collection of Ancient and Byzantine Coins at Lawrence University
  • Virtual Catalog of Roman Coins
  • Roman portraits from Egypt
  • The Campus Martius
  • Rome's Imperial Forums (Capitolium.org)
  • Trajan's Column

  • Diotima: Materials for the Study of Women and Gender in the Ancient World includes links to many additional visual resources

• Local UK resources
  • CD and Video Collection
  • Index of the slide library in POT 1015
  • A few digitized images for teaching purposes

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