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Tragedy: The Basics	Oresteia Notes, Questions, Links	Oedipus the King Notes, Questions, Links
Aristotle on Tragedy	Summary of The Libation Bearers	Antigone Notes and Questions
Bacchae Notes and Questions	Furies Notes and Questions	Oedipus at Colonus Notes and Questions

Roman Culture and the Aeneid

1.  Texts, Images, History, etc.:

The Perseus Digital Library: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/ The Perseus Classics page	Women and Gender in the Ancient World: the Diotima site:  http://www.stoa.org/diotima/
Exploring Ancient World Cultures: http://eawc.evansville.edu/	The Ancient City of Athens: http://www.indiana.edu/~kglowack/athens/
The Internet Classics Archive:  http://classics.mit.edu/	Dr. J's Illustrated Guide to the Classical World:  http://lilt.ilstu.edu/drjclassics/

2. Classical Indexes and Search sites:

Argos:  http://argos.evansville.edu/	Library of Congress:  http://lcweb.loc.gov/global/classics/clasbroad.html
Cambridge:  http://www.classics.cam.ac.uk/Faculty/links.html	Electronic Resources for Classicists (warning--a frame trap): http://www.tlg.uci.edu/~tlg/index/resources.html

3. Rome and Romans:

Virgil's Home Page: http://vergil.classics.upenn.edu/home/

Die Rom Seite: http://www.phil.uni-erlangen.de/~p2latein/ressourc/roma.html (Mostly in German, but great links and great maps and photos of Rome)

1. Greek Art and Architecture:  http://harpy.uccs.edu/greek/greek.html

2. Maecenas: Images of Ancient Greece and Rome (mostly Rome): http://wings.buffalo.edu/AandL/Maecenas/

4. Art and Architecture at the Perseus site.

5. The bronze Riace warriors: http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/Arts/RiaceWarrior.htm

6. Some Specific Images from Perseus:
 

Ajax and Cassandra	Death of Priam	Athena
Robin Mitchell-Boyask's "Images of the Trojan War Myth." (links to Perseus images)	Images of Mycenae (60 thumbnails)	Birth of Athena (Berlin vase) Birth of Athena (Boston vase) Birth of Athena (detail of Boston vase)
Oedipus and the Sphinx	Perseus chasing a Gorgon	Athena and Amphitrite

Aeneas carrying Anchises and another view

Heracles tames Cerberus

Death of Orpheus

Theseus slays the Minotaur

Atlas and Prometheus (Etruscan Museum at the Vatican, 152 K)

Views of Ithaca (Perseus Project)

6. More Classical and Myth links:

These two web-pages on myth (Greek and Roman) are highly recommended:

The Classical Myth Home Page:
http://web.uvic.ca/grs/bowman/myth/index.html (Check out the “slide lecture” page for images of the gods.)

Encyclopedia Mythica: http://www.pantheon.org/

Roger Dunkle's The Classical Origins of Western Culture course
http://ablemedia.com/ctcweb/netshots/stdygde.htm

Homer's Iliad (from Roger Dunkle's The Classical Origins of Western Culture course)
http://ablemedia.com/ctcweb/netshots/homer.htm

The Theoi Project: A Guide to Greek Gods, Spirits, and Monsters
http://www.theoi.com/index.htm

GVSU Classics Department: http://www.gvsu.edu/classics/

Gods of Olympus--study chart: http://www.luc.edu/faculty/jlong1/C271gods.htm

An interview with Stanley Lombardo, translator of the Iliad and the Odyssey (not printable: XHTML)
http://jacketmagazine.com/21/leddy-lomb-iv.html

A lecture on Greek and Roman Religion by Carl Seaquist, Univ. of Pennsylvania:
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/rs/002/lectures/lecture7.html

Hercules, Greece's Greatest Hero (Perseus Project)
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/Herakles/index.html

The Bryn Mawr Classical Review: http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/

A tutorial on Greek painted pottery:
http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/Pottery/Lecture1/Script/GreekPaintedPottery1.asp
(Beazley Archive, Oxford University)

Another tutorial on Athenian vases--how they were used and how they were made:
 http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~loxias/vase_menu.htm

This site is only part of Andrew Wilson's Classics Pages:
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~loxias/oldindex.htm

• Classical Literature Syllabus (CLA 201)
• Classical Literature Homepage / Links (CLA 201)
• Myth Syllabus (ENG 204)
• World Mythology Course Index
• WWW Myth Links