Ancient Greece


Amazon Classics Community
Amazon Greeks Community
Who is Who in Mythology
Teach Yourself Ancient Greek, at Amazon UK for £11.99
Athens
Solon, The Lawmaker of Athens (died 559 B.C.)
Solon by Plutarch
The History of Herodotus
Herodotus on the Web
Herodotus Website
Herodotus: The First Historian
Herodotus of Halicarnassus
Focus on Herodotus
Herodotus c. 485-425 BC
Herodotus Book 2
Herodotus on the pharaohs
Reconstruction of Herodotus World Map (ca. 450 B.C.)
the World According to Herodotus
Epicurus - Letter to Herodotus
Herodotus: The Histories: Xerxes at the Hellespont (mid 5th Century BCE)
The Polity of the Athenians, c. 424 BC
Plato (427-347 BC)
Plato and his dialogues
Plato (circa 428-c. 347 BC)
Greek Architecture (Period & Style for Designers)
Images of Alexander the Great
The Persian Wars

Books

The Oxford History of Greece & the Hellenistic World, at Amazon USA
The Trojan War: A New History, at Amazon USA 1200 BC
Greece in the Making 1200-479 BC (pub Routledge), at Amazon USA 1200-479 BC
Archaic and Classical Greece: A Selection of Ancient Sources in Translation, at Amazon USA c. 750 to 338 B.C.
Thermopylae: The Battle That Changed the World, at Amazon USA 480 BC
The Greek World 479-323 BC (pub Routledge), at Amazon USA 479-323 BC
The Greek World After Alexander, 323-30 BC (pub Routledge), at Amazon USA 323-30 BC
The Hellenistic World from Alexander to the Roman Conquest: A Selection of Ancient Sources in Translation, at Amazon USA
The Hellenistic Age from the Battle of Ipsos to the Death of Kleopatra VII, at Amazon USA
A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War, at Amazon USA

News

Hunt for Archimedes' lost words - 12/07/00
Ring from legend of King Minos 'is genuine' - 05/04/02
Experts demand halt to 'Elgin Marbles museum' - 16/07/02 The Greek authorities are in such a "mad rush" to build a museum to persuade the British authorities to return the Elgin Marbles that they are destroying irreplaceable antiquities
Vandals on the Acropolis - 16/07/02 When an archaeologist of Prof Dontas's eminence describes his own culture minister as a vandal, destroying the very heritage that he claims to care so much about, the world should sit up and take notice. The marbles are much safer in London
Geologists investigate Trojan battlefield - 07/02/03
Greeks 'borrowed Egyptian numbers' - 15/09/03
Divided lion takes pride of place - 13/04/04
Death before defeat in the ancient games - 09/08/04
Bulgarians rage over 'Orpheus and liars' - 07/03/05
Search 'locates' Homer's Ithaca - 29/09/05
Typhoid 'caused fall of Athens' - 24/01/06
Greek tomb find excites experts - 12/02/06< Scenes from Homer found in Cyprus 'warrior tomb' - 20/03/06
Sicilian expedition Athenian attempt to conquer Sicily in 415-413
Socrates' Apology: The Background
X-rays reveal Archimedes secrets - 02/08/06
Thera eruption was bigger still - 27/08/06
Drill hole begins Homeric quest - 11/10/06
Ancient Moon 'computer' revisited - 29/11/06
Getty to return 'stolen' items - 11/12/06
Drilling 'boosts Homeric theory' - 12/01/06
Text reveals more ancient secrets - 26/04/07
Alexander's Gulf outpost uncovered - 07/08/07
Robert Fagles, translator of ancient classics, dies at 74 - 28/03/08
Olympic link to early 'computer' - 30/07/08
Ancient gold treasure puzzles archaeologists - 29/08/08 A gold wreath has been unearthed in Greece, buried with human bones
Greek fisherman nets 2,200-year-old bronze statue - 24/03/09
A rare discovery: An engraved gemstone carrying a portrait of Alexander the Great - 15/09/09
Greece to unveil Acropolis museum - 19/06/09
Houses of the rising sun: Research sheds new light on Ancient Greeks - 25/11/09
Italy orders return of ancient Greek statue from US - 12/02/10
Science historian cracks "the Plato code" - 28/06/10
Alice Kober: Unsung heroine who helped decode Linear B - 05/06/13
Discovery of a 2,700-Year-Old Portico in Greece - 09/10/13
Italy's 'abandoned' Riace Bronzes back on show in Calabria - 20/12/13
'Two new poems' by Greek poet Sappho recovered - 30/01/14
Vast tomb unearthed in northern Greece - 12/08/14
Greeks captivated by Alexander-era tomb at Amphipolis - 21/09/14
Amphipolis skeleton from Alexander's time found in Greece - 12/11/14
Greek body to take centre stage in London - 08/01/15







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