Ancient Greece

History of Ancient Greek Music

The Greeks loved music, and made it an important part of their lives. They thought of music as a way of honoring the gods, and making the world a more human, civilized place. Unfortunately we really have no idea what Greek music sounded like, because there were no tape recorders or anything like that then, and they had no way of writing down music ...

Read More

The Glory That Was Greece

Foothill College [Greece] [Resources]...

Read More

Bureaucrats and Barbarians

Richard Hooker, Washington State Univ. [Greece] [Resources]...

Read More

Ancient Greek Art and Architecture

The Greeks developed three architectural systems, called orders, each with their own distinctive proportions and detailing. The Greek orders are: Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian. [Greece] [Images and Art Collections]...

Read More

National Archaeological Museum of Athens

A Visit to see some of the Archaeological Treasures of Ancient Greece in the Newly Renovated National Museum [Greece] [Images and Art Collections]...

Read More

Tour to Greece

Democritus, Univ. of Thrace [Greece] [Resources]...

Read More

Ancient Anatolia

[Greece] [Resources]...

Read More

Genealogical Guide to Greek Mythology

Carlos Parada, Brown Univ. [Greece] [Resources]...

Read More

Trojan War Resources

a selection from Bulfinch's Mythology (Chapter XXVII, Part Two) which describes the Trojan War from the standpoint of Homer's Iliad. A list of resources is appended to the end of the document. [Greece] [Resources]...

Read More

Greek Art

Archaic Art The Archaic sculptures are silent witnesses to the extraordinary development western society was about to undertake. The Kouros and Kore statues stand before a cultural revolution, all muscles tense, like a spring about to burst with energy into an extraordinary wave of classical thought. They stand with smiles frozen with meaning as if...

Read More