| Socrates
and Sophocles on Life (and Death)
in the Athenian City-State HERODOTUS
Find resources on Herodotus
at the EDSITEment-reviewed Perseus Project,
an online library of resources about the ancient world that allows users to explore
a text, object, or location in ancient Greece in great detail. EARLIER
CIVILIZATIONS Earlier civilizations
around the Mediterranean had flourished along resource-rich and fertile rivers.
You can learn about those earlier civilizations, the precursors and, in some instances,
the teachers of the Greeks, at the EDSITEment-reviewed sites Odyssey
Online, NOVA: Pyramids,
and Exploring Ancient World Cultures,
which make available a collection of essays, images, and primary and secondary
sources focusing on a range of ancient cultures. "A
ROCKY LAND AND POOR" Herodotus also
remarked that "Greece and Poverty have always been bedfellows." A third of this
country, which is approximately the size of Alabama, was and still is bare rock.
The landscape is carved up by limestone mountains, narrow valleys, long gulfs,
and numerous islands, as an interactive
map from the EDSITEment-reviewed National
Geographic Society Xpeditions helps to illustrate. FIFTH
AND FOURTH CENTURY B.C.E.
Orient yourself with a "Timeline
of Greek History and Literature," available at the EDSITEment-reviewed
Center for the Liberal
Arts. Hyperlinks on the timeline to individual authors
take you directly to relevant resources on the Perseus Project.
ATHENS
You can find a photographic archive of the
archaeological and architectural remains of ancient Athens
at the Ancient
City of Athens, a link on the EDSITEment-reviewed ArchNet.
And take a virtual tour of the Athenian Acropolis at WebAcropol,
another linked on ArchNet.
PARTHENON
Take a virtual tour of the Athenian Acropolis
at WebAcropol,
a link on the EDSITEment-reviewed ArchNet.
POLIS At
the Perseus Project you can find extensive
background materials explaining and illustrating the Greek polis,
or "city-state." ANTIGONE
You can find a basic text version of Antigone
at the Internet Classics
Archive, a link on the EDSITEment-reviewed Center
for the Liberal Arts. A more sophisticated and interactive
hypertext is available on the Perseus
Project.
CRITO
You can find a basic text version of Crito
at the Internet Classics
Archive, a link on the EDSITEment-reviewed Center
for the Liberal Arts. A more sophisticated and interactive
hypertext is available on the Perseus
Project.
GODS
Several EDSITEment-reviewed sites offer text,
images, and links on Greek mythology. Start, for example,
with an online version of Bulfinch's
Mythology from the EDSITEment resource Center
for the Liberal Arts, which also has an annotated
list of resources designed by and for K through 12 teachers.
The Perseus Project
website has an illustrated
online exhibit about Hercules that includes a retelling
of the Twelve Labors. Greek mythology can be studied alongside
the myths and legends of other world cultures at the EDSITEment-reviewed
Exploring Ancient
World Cultures. | 
