Workshop
Polytheism in Greece and Rome:
The gods and heroes in stone and bronze
Workshop
Polytheism in Greece and Rome:
The gods and heroes in stone and bronze
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PERSEUS
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/
This very dense digital library is an important source for Classical
materials on the web.
PANTHEON'S ENCYCLOPEDIA MYTHICA
http://www.pantheon.org/mythica/
The Pantheon Mythica site has a useful list for matching
the names of Greek gods up with their Roman counterparts.
You can also find very
brief descriptions of the gods and heroes and their stories quickly
here.
LOGGIA
http://www.loggia.com/myth/myth.html
The Loggia site has a lot of information on images (both ancient and
modern) for Greek/Roman gods and heroes, but the images are not very large.
Part of the site is devoted to an art
history approach to Greek and Roman artifacts with brief but useful
definitions.
THE ANCIENT
GREEK WORLD - University of Pennsylvania Museum
http://www.museum.upenn.edu./Greek_World/Index.html
This museum site organizes a selection of images around commentary
on topics including Greek religion, religious games and the Greek view
of death.
Prof. Z. Philip Ambrose (U. of Vermont) collection of 268 images
from his Classical Mythology Course, Classics 42
http://www.uvm.edu/~classics/ambrose/clas42_slides.html
This slide collection is usefully organized by lecture title. His "supplementary
collection" has particularly nice images from pottery illustrating
stories about Athena, Odysseus, the Trojan War,
The Bulfinch Mythology site includes a section on statues of the gods. You have to be a bit patient chasing down their links to the images.
Greek Mythology Link
(Carlos Parada from Lund, Sweden. Also posted in Spanish. )
http://homepage.mac.com/cparada/GML/
This site is a little dense, but it has good maps and image "albums"
with a wide variety of images from different historical periods; biographies
for major deities, heroes, and mythical creatures and even some mythical
histories of geographical places.
Mythology
in Western Art
http://www-lib.haifa.ac.il/www/art/Mythology_westart.html
The object of this project-- Mythmedia--is to form a collection of
art images relating to Classical mythology.
This collection consists of scanned images from various periods of
Western art which depict the deities, and heroes mentioned
in Homer. The images are classified according to the names of the various
deities and heroes.
Mythmedia was prepared in The Library of The University of Haifa by
Ora Zehavi, and by Dr. Sonia Klinger from the
Department of Art History.
THE MYTHS:
BULFINCH'S
MYTHOLOGY
Oxford
University Press online companion to Morford and Lenardon's Mythology.
http://www.oup-usa.org/sc/0195143388/chaptertopics/
This is intended to be a sort of teacher's guide to their textbook
but it stands very well on its own with summaries, on-line texts, an excellent
glossary and links to images.
Resources for
Students
BULFINCH'S
MYTHOLOGY
http://www.webcom.com/shownet/medea/bulfinch/#Contents
The language in this 19th century popular source for the Greek myths
may be a bit heavy for some middle school students, but it's a good site
with great illustrations, copious notes and links.
History
For Kids
http://www.historyforkids.org/greekciv/religion/gods2/begin.htm
Brief background on Greek gods and creation myth written for middle
school students by Portland State University students.
MYTHWEB
http://www.mythweb.com/index.html
This is alternately a really silly and good site. It has cartoon versions
of heroic myths and a collection of
teaching tips
with lots of good activity ideas for middle school.
PARTHENON
PERSEUS
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/architindex?entry=Athens,Parthenon
Click on any of the links and you'll get a thumbnail shot of the images,
which, if you click on those you get the larger image.
WILLAMETTE
Univerity World Views
http://library.willamette.edu/webstation/wviews/greekwv/wvint.htm
This resource page university students includes a Parthenon
image archive index.
REED COLLEGE Class page
on the Parthenon
http://homer.reed.edu/Parthenon.html
Parthenon images of building plan and architectural features.
THE PARTHENON MARBLES
http://ares.math.utk.edu/marbles/
This is a site from English students in Greece which includes a history
and transportation of the Parthenon marbles and material for a student
debate on returning the marbles to Greece.
PARTHENON
IMAGES CATALOGED BY HOLY CROSS
http://classics.holycross.edu/artifacts/display.html?key=Athens,+Parthenon
This offers an organized view of the images, mostly from the Perseus
collection.