Archaeology

A list of links to Greeks archaeological sites, provided by the Greek Ministry of Culture. Sometimes a bit slow, but an helpful resource to stuff otherwise hard to find. Here's their list of museums. Among the more important are the National Museum in Athens, the Archaeological Museum of Thessalonki, and the Archaeological Museum of Delphi.

Here's the miningco.com list of sites for Greek archaeology.

Dr. J's Illustrated Sites of Greece. A collection of images and other stuff put together by Doctor Janice Siegel of Temple University. No relation.

"Bearers of Meaning," an excellent introduction to what we can learn about the ancient world through its coins, from Lawrence University.

Looking at Art of Ancient Greece and Rome. An educational exhibit put together by the Getty Museum in LA. Designed for younger students, it would seem, but well put together with nice images.

Bronze Age

The Dilos Holiday site on Minoan Crete, with much good stuff on the Minoans.

The official Greek government pages on Knossos and the Heraclion Museum, each with some good images.

For a whole course on Aegean prehistory, check out this Dartmouth College Course put together by Professor Jeremy Rutter, with ample scholarly text, images, links, and more.

A fine introduction to Minoan Crete by Ian Swindale, with images from many sites.

An excellent set of online resources for a class at Charles Stuart University in Australia on Minoan Society. A set of Mycenaean images from the same source.

Athens

Stoa.org, a collection of classical sites, incluedes, among other Athenian bits, a wonderful site on Athenian democracy, and a developing site on the archaeology of Athens.

The Ancient City of Athens is a "photographic archive of the archaeological and architectural remains of ancient Athens (Greece)" brought to you by Kevin Glowacki of Indiana University. It is intended primarily as a resource for students of classical art & archaeology, civilization, languages, and history at Indiana. This introductory essay is a good place to start.

Here's the main Perseus page for Athens. It includes a brief archaeological history of the city, a nifty plan with buttons you can push to see views of the city, and lots of nice images. Here's a few favorites:

• An aerial view of the acropolis. The theater of Dionysus, where the great Greek tragedies were first performed, is down right. Above it to the left is the Roman period Odeion of Herodes Atticus, where Iannis played the Acropolis.
• The Acropolis from the Pynx (where the Athenian assembly met).
• The Olympeion with Acropolis in the background (the Olympeion is a temple to Olympian Zeus begun by Peisistratus but not finished until 700 years later: page 172).
• More "personal" favorites: Mount Lycabettos (a large hill, really, but it looks mighty impressive in this pic) which Dr. Johnson used to hike up a couple of times a week when he was living in Athens. Back when he was younger. And carefree. Here's the view from Lycabettos. On a clear day, which is rather rare. Magnified a bit.

19th Century Photography of Ancient Greece. A fascinating collection of images of Athens from the time when the modern town was but a village and the ancient remains had yet to be altered by archaeologists, pollution, and other modern evils. A very well organized site.

Not going to Athens anytime soon? Well, prepare for your visit to Nashville by visiting their fine Nashville Parthenon site. The site includes a nifty clickable image of the Athena Parthenos statue, the only full-scale replica in existence. Click on it to get descriptions (and further images) of the complex clothing, gear, etc. It's pretty impressive in person. Too bad the building is, like the real Parthenon, always under reconstruction, and, unlike the real item, it's not on a hill. They're planing on painting the statue (as the original was), which should be a hoot.

History & Culture

Thomas Martin's Survey of Archaic and Classical Greek History, part of the Perseus site (described on my basic tools page), gives an up to date outline of Greek history, complete with links to other resources on Perseus.

The miningco.com site on Homer and the Trojan War, with a set of links. They're trying to make a buck, so they'll be plenty or ads, but the set of links looks promising.

Check out Diotima for material on the study of sex and gender in antiquity.

Sick and tired of Greek tragedy? Try this famous spoof.

The University of Pennsylvania museum of archaeology and anthropology has some neat stuff, including an web exhibit on the ancient Greek world and one the Greek Olympics.

Speaking of the games, here's a nice site put together by the Perseus people on the Ancient Olympics.

How can one study the Greeks without a look or two at a symposium? But don't try this at home, or at least don't try without being aware of what's in store the morning after (or is it still the night before?) Here's a nifty drinking party site put together by the University of Pennsylvania museum. Click on the images to enlarge them. Speaking of wine, here's a link to the Penn page on the origins of wine drinking. We're talking 5000 BC here.

Too early in the day for wine? Try this site, devoted to olive oil. "Few things have done more to engage the intellect, the senses and the passions of the civilized world than the olive and its oil." Yesiree.

Film fan? Here's a list of movies related to ancient Greece. Most of them are complete garbage.

Prefer reading? Well, here's a big ol' list of fiction on ancient Greece.

Later Greece

Byzantium. A gateway site for those interested in the Greeks after the fall of the Western Roman Empire.