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Lesson Plans

1. Literature - Classical (Able Media)
   Provides lessons related to ancient Greek mythology, history, and literature. Requires the use of the Adobe Reader, which is free.

Lists

1. Ancient Greeks (Mautz)
   Provides links to people, places, and events. Ties resources into links in the arts related to the same time periods and places. 2-01
2. Greece - Ancient Greece (Hos-McGrane)
   Includes resources on ancient Grecian culture assembled by 6th grade students.
3. Greece - Ancient Greece (Mautz)
   Provides links to people, places, and events. Ties resources into links in the arts related to the same time periods and places.

Materials

1. Greece (Mautz)
   Provides art, history, architecture, sculpture, and other elements of culture in ancient Greece. Provides hundreds of sources of information so the page may load very slowly.
2. Greece - Acropolis (Hellenic Ministry of Culture)
   Provides pictures of the extraordinary sculpture contained in the Acropolis, one of ancient Greece's most beautiful buildings.
3. Greece - Art (Perseus Project)
   Provides 13,000 thumbnail pictures related to ancient Greece.
4. Greece - Mythology (Bulfinch's Mythology - Fisher)
   Provides a comprehensive text, including line drawings, depicting life and legend in ancient Greece.
5. Greece - Pictures - Alexander in India (Untereker, Kossuth and Kelsey)
   Provides a picture Alexander the Great on an Elephant and then on a horse.
6. Greece - Pictures - Alexander the Great (Untereker, Kossuth and Kelsey)
   Provides a number of graphics from Ancient Greece.
7. Greece - Pictures - Clothing (Smith)
   Provides line drawings of clothing worn by women in ancient Greece.
8. Greece - Pictures - Olympius (Untereker, Kossuth and Kelsey)
   Provides a picture of Olympius, mother of Alexander the Great.
9. Greece - Warfare (University of Pennsylvania)
   Provides a very brief history of warfare in Greece. Credits the Greeks, especially Alexander the Great, with inventing total war.
10. Greek Jewelry (Mautz)
    Provides pictures of jewelry.
11. Greek Life and Times (University of Pennsylvania)
    Provides pictures and a historical narrative regarding daily life, arts, economy, warfare, religion and other aspects of life in ancient Greece.
12. Greek Pottery (Hellenic Ministry of Culture)
    Provides pictures of pottery.

Papers

1. Ancient Grecian Art (Artchive.com)
   Provides nine examples of art from ancient Greece. 3-01
2. Ancient Greece and Rome (About.com - Burns)
   Provides grammar for Latin, as well as sources of information on ancient Greek and Roman civilizations. Includes clip art. 1-00
3. Ancient Greek Art History (About.com - Mulder-Slater)
   Provides highlights of ancient Grecian art history from 800 to 323 BC. 3-01
4. Ancient Greek and Crete Art History (About.com - Mulder-Slater)
   Provides highlights of ancient Aegean art history from 3000 to 1100 BC. 3-01
5. Ancient Greeks (Emory University)
   Provides a description of daily life, burials, mythology, and more.
6. Egypt - Ancient Romans (Emory University)
   Provides a description of daily life, burials, mythology, and more.
7. Greece - Ancient City of Athens (Glowacki and Klein)
8. Greece - Ancient Greece
9. Greece - Daily Life in Ancient Greece (Donn)
   Provides information on toys, pets, food, slaves, clothes, and other day-to-day information.
10. Greece - History of Grecian Dance (Patsidou and Mavromatis)
    Provides a history of Greek dancing through the centuries.
11. Greece - Philosophy (Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
    Provides an excellent summary of philosophy in ancient Greece, starting with the Presocratics and extending to the Neoplatonics, such as Plotinus. Includes biographies on the most important philosophers.
12. Greek - Philosophy (IEP)
13. Greek - Philosophy of Stoicism (IEP)
14. Greek - Plato's Republic
    Provides the Greek classic, The Republic, by Plato. Describes his ideal for government, including how to prepare leaders for government.
15. Greek and Roman Philosophers - The Stoics (Moore)
    Provides information on the Stoic philosophers of Marcus Aurelius, Chrysippus, Epitectus, Senaca and Cleanthe.
16. Prophecies (Anderson)
    Provides a long list of prophecies from different tribes. The list is well down the page and takes longer than most to load. 1-00

Projects

1. Ancient Egyptians (Snaith Primary School)
   Provides worksheets and interactive problems to solve. 11-01
2. Ancient Greeks (Seagraves)
   Provides lesson plans and projects to understand ancient Grecian culture, architecture, and daily life. 2-01