Greek Archaeology

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Meta-Sites | Greek Archaeology: Introductory | Images and Museums |
Excavations and Specific Sites | Good Books

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Meta-Sites: Links to More Information

• Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites
• Archaeology on the Net, links and books on a wide range of materials from scientific to cultural.
• Web Resources for Aegean Archaeology, compiled by Prof. John Younger
• Cultural Map of Hellas, a site sponsored by the Greek Ministry of Culture that links to museums and sites in Greece.
• Perseus Project, an evolving digital library on ancient Greece. Images, texts, maps, essays, on-line Greek-English lexicon, plus much more. Great site for students of Greek art, archaeology, history, literature, and language. Mirror Sites: Berlin, Chicago

Greek Archaeology Courses

• Ancient and Medieval Art (Nick Cahill, Wisconsin)
• Prehistoric Archaeology of the Aegean (Jeremy Rutter, Dartmouth)
• The Prehistory of Mainland Greece (Univ. of Cincinnati)
• Greek Art and Archaeology (Leslie Mechem, Skidmore)
• Greek Archaeology (Bruce Hartzler) has good images
  

  The Greek world: Introductory

  • Interactive Ancient Mediterranean Map Index. On-line and downloadable maps of the ancient Greek and Roman world.
  • Chronology of Ancient Greece, from Exploring Ancient World Cultures at the University of Evansville. Includes links to ancient maps, essays, and an anthology of readings on-line.
  • The Ancient Greek World, an exhibition from the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Includes sections on land and time, daily life, economy, and religion and death
  • Ancient City of Athens, images and information about the monuments of Athens.
  • Greek Art and Architecture (Kathryn Andrus)
  • Dr. J's Illustrated Sites of Greece combines images with nice descriptions and explanations of their significance. Fun to read with great images.
  • Byzantine Studies on the Internet (Halsall)
  • History of Greece from the Bronze Age to the Present (Matt Barrett)
  

  Demeter and Persephone, relief from Sanctuary of Demeter at Eleusis

   

  Images and Museums

  • Ancient City of Athens, images and information about the monuments of Athens.
  • Dr. J's Illustrated Sites of Greece combines images with nice descriptions and explanations of their significance
  • David Gill's Art and Archaeology of Attica
  • Metis QTVR panaroma view of Greek archaeological sites (with plans!)
  • Museums, Archaeological Sites in Greece (Hellenic Ministry of Culture)
  • Perseus Art and Archaeology Browser
  • Maecenas: Images of Ancient Greece and Rome
  • The Vatican Museums
  • Dr. J's Illustrated Greek Theater
  • Skenotheke: Images of the Ancient Stage

  Excavations, Projects, and Specific Sites

  • Great Buildings On-Line: Brief descriptions of major architectural achievements throughout the world. Click on Search and search by name of the city you are interested in.
  • Athenian Agora (Google Earth Virtual Model)
  • The Colors of Clay: Special Techniques in Athenian Vases (exhibition at the Getty)
  • Corinth Excavations (ASCSA); Corinth Computer Project (Penn)
  • Isthmia Excavations (Ohio State)
  • Minoan Crete: basic information about all the major and some of the minor archaeological sites of the Bronze Age civilisation in Crete
  • Nemea Valley Archaeological Project
  • Olympia 3-D reconstruction (Foundation of the hellenic World)
  • Pylos Regional Archaeology Project.
  • Sphakia (Crete) Survey
  • Research and Fieldwork in Greek Archaeology (Ken Wardle) has info on Assiros, Knossos, Mycenae, Khrysoloupos, Nea Nikomedia, Paphos, Servia, Thermon, and others
  • The Thera Foundation, dedicated to the the study of archaeology, geology, art history and other cultural events as they pertain to Greece and Santorini.
  • Project Troia offers an account of the recent excavations at Troy by a joint team of German and American researchers, links to the museum exhibit Troia: Dream and Reality, the controversy surrounding the new interpretation of the excavation, and Troia VR which offers reconstructions of Bronze Age Troy.

  Greek Trivia

  • Didaskalia: Ancient Theater Today
  • Diotima: Materials for the Study of Women and Gender in the Ancient World
  • The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
    

  Good Books

  • Elizabeth Fisher, John Camp, The World of the Ancient Greeks
  • James Whitley, The Archaeology of Ancient Greece
  • Archaeology On-line: Popular magazine of the AIA
  • Greek and Latin Texts and Translations at Perseus
  • The Internet Classics Archive at MIT (downloadable translations of many classical authors)
  • The Internet Ancient History Sourcebook (all in translation).
  • TOCS-IN: Tables of Contents of journals of interest to classicists contains articles from 1992 on; primarily English language periodicals, but also some books that are collections of articles
  • Archaeological Fieldwork Opportunities. Check also the Archaeological Fieldwork and Opportunities Bulletin, published by the Archaeological Institute of America each year. Its call number in Cole Library is 930.1 Ar22.

     

    

    Parthenon, Athens