General Ancient History Resources

General Ancient History Resources

"An on-line course supplement for students and teachers of the ancient and medieval worlds; features its own essays and primary texts. Over time it will include chapter-length histories for each of the eight "cultures" represented: The Near East, India, Egypt, China, Greece, Rome, Early Islam and Medieval Europe. Also includes a substantial index of internet sites, divided into five sub-indices: a chronology, an essay index, an image index, an internet site index and an electronic text index."

A collection of links to Internet information about Mayan and pre-Columbian civilizations of the Americas. Images, information and articles provide a lot of helpful resources.

For their builders, the Seven Wonders were a celebration of religion, mythology, art, power, and science. For us, they reflect the ability of humans to change the surrounding landscape by building massive yet beautiful structures, one of which stood the test of time to this very day.

Links to Internet resources related to Roman Law.

Rome Reborn: The Vatican Library and Renaissance Culture is an online exhibit from the Library of Congress. It presents some 200 of the Vatican Library's most precious manuscripts, books, and maps--many of which played a key role in the humanist recovery of the classical heritage of Greece and Rome. The exhibition presents the untold story of the Vatican Library as the intellectual driving force behind the emergence of Rome as a political and scholarly superpower during the Renaissance.

"This is a directory of links to materials on ancient Greek texts which are read in Intellectual Heritage 51/91. These links include study guides, primary texts and images. The Department of Greek, Hebrew and Roman Classics provides this as a resource for students and faculty involved in this course."

The stories of the Greek deities and heroes/heroines form the core around which much of Western art, literature and music revolve. This course will examine Greek myth and legend as told and retold in Greek and Roman literary sources. The Greeks and Romans also left a vast corpus of painting and sculpture which may be drawn upon as primary source material for the study of Greek myth.

Images from various scenes in Greek tragic theatre.

Look up words, terms and concepts from world philosophical ideas. From Ancient Greece to the modern periods.