Pictoral tour of ancient Greek and Roman theaters. Click on particular countries on the map of Europe to zoom into them. Then click on particular cities for pictures and brief descriptions of theaters within them.

This site contains 24 audio links to ancient Greek music and inscriptions as well as a link to types of Homeric (Greek) singing.

Discover more about the ancient Greek Olympians and how they represented their individual city-states. This site features how to prepare yourself to take part in the games.

Discusses the ancient Greek colonies of Ionia and their troubled relationship with the nearby Persian government.

Overview of Agrigento, Greek city-state founded on the south coast of Sicily, and provides information on architecture and life of ancient Greek civilization. Site contains photos, maps and links to further reading.

Ithaka offers a rigorous experiential and academic work/study immersion in Greek culture. The study is inter-disciplinary, covering the main areas of culture and learning from ancient times to the present day. It is accessible to the...

Discusses the difference between modern and ancient Greek Olympic games, and goes into depth about the religious festivals that took place. Additional links to related material.

Learn about music dating from the early Neanderthals to the Proto-Renaissance period. Also included is music from the Greeks and Romans as well as the early Christian church.

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).

Read about the history of the Romiosini, or Greek Middle Ages and the development of the Greek-Roman east. The article is divided into two different sections. The first section includes the foundation of Constantinople as a means to...

Read about Hygieia, the goddess of health, tidiness, and pureness.

Read to learn about Nemesis, the spirit of divine retribution and a symbol of justice.

Read to learn about Nyx, the goddess of the night, who meets the goddess of the day to transition from day to night.

Learn about Persephone, the Queen of the Underworld, and see the pictures.

Read about Selene, the goddess of the moon, the night and the months, and see her pictures.

Learn more about Styx, who personified the sacred river of the gods that separated the world of the living from the world of the dead.

Read to learn more about Minotaur, a cannibalistic monster who had the body of a man and the head of a bull.

Through this lesson students research Greek playwrights, analyze their works, and explain how their works relate to the 21st century.

Describes the little that is known of Zeno of Elea's life. Also discusses his denial of motion and plurality hypothesis. He explained his ideas using paradoxes that continue to challenge intellectual minds today, and that have had a big...

An article explaining how the Greeks were able to use their science and mathematics to predict where astronomical objects such as the Planets could be found in the nighttime sky even though their underlying premise was that the earth did...

Article adaptation from "A Brief History of the Olympic Games" (Blackwell Publishing, 2004) summarizes key aspects of the ancient Olympic competitions, ideals, and festivals.

Illustrated encyclopedia entry on the Achaean League, a federation of Greek city-states during the 3rd and 2nd centuries BCE. Site includes timeline, maps, photos and bibliography.

This site details Greek and other influences on Islamic medicine and includes illustrations of Arabic translations of earlier texts. Mentions The House of Wisdom (Bayt al-Hikmah) and its origins.

A slideshow that introduces learners to nineteenth-century architectural history by displaying a variety of homes constructed in specific historical styles, such as Greek revival, Queen Anne, Italianate, and Gothic revival.