Penn Museum
Penn Museum: Ancient Greek World: Women's Life Dress and Toilet Articles
This resource presents a description of how women in ancient Greece dressed and how these styles changed.
World History Encyclopedia
World History Encyclopedia: Athens
Encyclopedia entry defines and provides an overview of the ancient greek city of Athens. Includes a timeline of history events and explores its early settlement, government and laws, and culture.
Tom Richey
Tom Richey: Power Point: Minoan and Mycenaean Greece
PowerPoint presentation by History teacher, Tom Richey, explains the history of the Minoans and Mycenaeans in ancient Greece.
Able Media
The Asclepion: Medicine in Ancient Greece
Impressive Classics Technology Center site lists the achievements of the ancient Greeks in medicine from the time of Homer up to Hippocrates and the plague of Athens during the Peloponnesian war. Gives evidence from ancient texts.
Tom Richey
Tom Richey Power Point: This Is the History of Sparta
PowerPoint presentation by teacher, Tom Richey, presents 44 informative and fun slides on the history of Sparta.
Stephen Byrne
History for Kids: Ancient Greek Weddings
History for kids describes the rites and rituals associated with weddings of ancient Greece. Students will enjoy reading about cultural traditions of the past.
Other
Bijleveld Books: Life Among Ruins: Greece and Turkey Between Past & Present
A fascinating exhibition of the impact that living among the ruins of earlier civilizations has on people's lives. This online exhibit presents the illustrated records of European travelers to the Mediterranean from the 17th to the 19th...
Steven Kreis, PhD
The History Guide: Classical Greece, 500 323 b.c.
Read about the Persian invasion of Greece, the Age of Pericles, the Peloponnesian War, and the culture of Classical Greece.
Online Learning Haven
Online Learning Haven: Ancient Greece
Article on ancient Greece with brief summaries of ancient Greek society, gods and goddesses, literature, and much more.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Greek Art Prehistoric to Classical: Ed Resource
Lengthy illustrated publication (256 pages) serves to ground readers in ancient Greek art and culture, beginning with the earliest point in Greek history through the classical period. Using examples found in its vast collections, the...
Other
Acropolis Museum
Follow this link to the online home of the Acropolis Museum, which opened to the public in June 2009. Holdings include weathered originals and reproductions, freestanding works of sculpture, architectural fragments, and other antiquities...
Other
Explorable: Ancient Astronomy, Science and the Ancient Greeks
Discusses the influences of other cultures on ancient Greek astronomers, and the advances made by the Greeks. It highlights major astronomers and those who contributed important ideas from the 6th to the 2nd centuries BC, including...
Other
Ancient Art Podcast
Video podcast series about the art and culture of the ancient Mediterranean world hosted by Lucas Livingston, a director of education at the Art Institute of Chicago. Choose from a large menu of select topics on the art of ancient Egypt,...
World History Encyclopedia
World History Encyclopedia: Greek Mathematics
Discusses the major cultural influences on the development of mathematics in ancient Greece, and how the Greeks went on to surpass those cultures. The work of the Pythagoreans and of Euclid are described, along with some famous...
Other
Wesleyan: Ancient Greece: Roles of Women, Children and Men
A detailed explanation of the role of women and children in the social and political life of ancient Greece.
Tufts University
Tufts University: Ancient Olympic Events
This resource gives an overview of the ancient Greek Olympic games. Learn about the history of wrestling, running and the discus. Includes images and video (requires QuickTime).
Other
Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Tourism: Group of the Kekropides
Image of the Group of the Kekropides from the Parthenon pediment. Includes the piece's dimensions, materials, and inventory number. Accompanied by a list of suggested resources for further study.
PBS
Pbs: The Rest of the World in Time of Classical Greece
A summary of what was happening in other world cultures during the Classical period in ancient Greece.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Ancient Greek History for Kids: Daily Life
Read more about life during Ancient Greece on this site. Learn about their way of life from what they ate to what they lived in.
Stephen Byrne
History for Kids: Greek Games
History for Kids presents information on the history of children's games in ancient Greece. Site contains examples, activities, worksheets and quizzes.
Stephen Byrne
History for Kids: The Ancient Greek House
History for kids teaches us about the style, architecture and materials used to make houses in ancient Greece. With animated images and writing designed to appeal to elementary age students.
Stephen Byrne
History for Kids: Greek Daily Life
History for Kids presents an overview written for elementary students of daily life of the ancient Greeks. Students learn about Greek government, agriculture and industry, houses and food. Teacher resources included.
Stephen Byrne
History for Kids: Greek Food
History for kids teaches us about food and diet in ancient Greece and describes what a typical meal might have looked like. Includes worksheets, activities, and quizzes.
Stephen Byrne
History for Kids: Ancient Greek Theatre
Overview of the history of ancient Greek theatre written in a kid-friendly format teaches about the architecutre of the theatre buildings as well as the structure of the plays.