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Virtual Library
Greece




Gods, myths, religion
Encyclopedia Mythica - Greek mythology
Greek Mythology - gods, heroes, creatures, stories, family trees etc.
Greek Mythology - from the Iliad to the Fall of the last Tyrant
Greek Myths - Oedipus
Hercules: Greece's greatest hero - stories, life, his women, his travels
From Myth to Eternity - a Greek myth project with summaries of  myths
The Pantheon - the stories, the deities, and other characters
The Ancient Gods - brief descriptions and a family tree
Classical Myth: the Ancient Sources - timeline, images and text
Mythology of the Seven Sisters (Pleiades) - from an astronomical perspective

Medicine and science
Ancient Locker Rooms - interesting information on this topic relevant to sport
Astronomy of the Greeks - excellent site for middle school students.
Greek environment - a brief one-pager on the topic
Greek and Roman surgical instruments - information with pictures
The history of plumbing - Greece -  development of water systems
History of mathematics
Medicine in Ancient Greece
The Plague in Athens during the Peloponnesian War - from the writer Thucydides.
Greek Astronomy - a brief glance
Greek mathematics and its modern heirs - classical roots of the scientific revolution
Ancient Greek civilization - science links
Jason's web site on Ancient Greek Science

Olympic Games
The Ancient Olympics - a comparison of ancient and modern sports, a tour of the site of Olympia, the context of the games and the Olympic spirit, and information about athletes famous in ancient times
A tour of Ancient Olympia - with maps and pictures

People - thinkers, writers, scholars, scientists
Archimedes Home Page - topics include the Archimedes' screw, solids, spheres, coins.
Archimedes of Syracuse: History - life, contributions to geometry, major theories

Greek Philosophy Archive - links to dialogues of Plato and works of Aristotle
Aesop's Fables Online Collection  Aeschylus 
Aristotle - summary of his life  Euclid: Biography 
Euclid's elements - introduction  Euripides 
Sophocles - biography  Antigone 
The people of Ancient Greece  Works of Herodotus 
Oath of Hippocrates  Pericles' funeral oration 
The origin of philosophy - why the Greeks?  Socrates 
Thucydides - the Melian dialogue   

Plato 
Essays on Ancient Greece - Plato  Plato for the young inquirer 
Plato's 'Phaedo'  Plato's 'Apology' 
Plato's 'The republic'  Plato's 'Symposium' 

 


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