Pictures of ancient remains, including the Parthenon and information about the terms used to describe them. Resources on architecture, monuments, artifacts, exhibits, jewelry, pottery, and greek sculptors.
From Lesbos, Termander is known for his contributions to music.
The kylix is a type of pottery drinking vessel used by the ancient Greeks.
Kantharos is the name for a Greek drinking vessel.
Pictures of Greek Pottery.
Chryselephantine was a material of Greek statues.
The Greeks and Romans used the acanthus in their ornamental decorations.
Glossary entry on the Periclean odeum.
Timanthes was a Greek painter known for his Iphigenia.
Glossary entry on the two-handled jar known as an amphora.
The identifying properties of black figure pottery.
If we have problems with people who are racist, classist, and sexist, as Cahill says the ancient Greeks were, they must have other redeeming characteristics. They developed art, adapted Egyptian mathematics, added vowels to the Semitic consonants to produce the alphabet, produced innovations in various literary fields, created science and philosophy, and introduced the democratic system.
Book Review of Simon Goldhill's Love, Sex, and Tragedy, a new answer to the "Why study classics?" question.
The periods of art in ancient Greece - dark age, Mycenean, geometric and proto-geometric, archaic, classical and hellenistic art.
List of images on the topics of life and death and the labors of Heracles. Images found on the Perseus site.
