Classics links

Latin grammar, exercises, vocabulary

Roman authors

The Cicero Homepage (University of Texas at Austin). Texts, chronology, images, bibiography, biography of the great Roman orator.

Classical Greek grammar, exercises, vocabulary

English-Greek Dictionary from the University of Chicago Library

NTGreek.Net (contains straightforward explanations of grammatical concepts with online exercises and quizzes).

More resources for learning New Testament Greek (contains some good explanations of grammatical concepts---more detailed than the above website)

Greek History

Greek tragedy: performance of Agamemnon from Aeschylus' Oresteia

Timeline of art history in ancient Greece (via the Metropolitan Museum of Art)

3 ages of Greek Art: Archaic (kore & kouros); Classical (doryphoros and quotation by Pliny; marathon boy); Hellenistic (Laocoön).

The Minoans in Crete and the Myceneans in Argos

Archaeologists (both amateurs): Herman Schliemann and Sir Arthur Evans

The Homeric Question: Are the Iliad and the Odyssey the work of one poet? Or were they created over time in an evolving poetic tradition?

Milman Parry: Research on folklore and oral composition in Croatia

The Persian Wars

About Xerxes, Achaemenid king of the Persian Empire, ruled from 486 to 465

Maps from the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago

Pre-Socratic Philosophers

An outline of the Pre-Socratics (and the Big Question, What is the arche or "first principle"?).

Diagram of the Influence of Socrates in ancient philosophyGraph of the Pre-Socratics

This account of ancient Greek psychology contains a map detailing where the Pre-Socratics were from.

Gaudium et Paidia

Videos by my Summer Scholars 2007 class: Achilles and Hector and of The Trojan Horse