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Web Based Learning
Grade 8 Social Studies Classes
GREECE

Instructions: 
Follow the sequence of the web based learning resources below. Click and hold down for a second on the underlined phrases or words. Use the 'back' button to get back to this web page. Follow the instructions you are given for note taking and for making references.

Go to at Emroy University: Greece - Emroy University Odyssey Online
To guide you, follow the numbers:

First, where in the world was Greece?
Let's find out on the map around 800 BC. Find the details for Crete and Mycenaean.

The People of Ancient Greece has links to war and democracy as well as their art.
Find out the connections between Religion and Myths on this Myths link.
4 questions are probed on this link for Daily Life. What do you think of life in this civilization? Could you go 'Back to the Future' here?
What would you do if you died young as these people often did? 
Find out more at the Death and Burial link.
Pictographs and Hieroglyphs have a connection for the alphabet in Greece Writing.

Mythology Assignment #1 - Web Resources

The Pantheon - The Encyclopedia Mythica of Mythology, folklore and legend using Flash Technology. The Greek Mythology is very extensive with 601 online articles. The Greek heroic legend has 448 articles online.

Greek Mythology - Iliad to the Fall of the Last Tyrant
http://www.messagenet.com/myths/index.html

The Immortals
http://www.messagenet.com/myths/immortals.html

Olympians
http://www.loggia.com/myth/olympians.html

Greek Gods and Goddesses
http://www.loggia.com/myth/gods.html

Greek Mythology - main page
http://www.loggia.com/myth/content.html

Greek Images - Aphrodite
http://web.uvic.ca/grs/bowman/myth/gods/aphrodite_i.html

Aphrodite - text and images, by James W. Jackson
http://jcccnet.johnco.cc.ks.us/~jjackson/aphr.html

The Olympians - by James W. Jackson
http://jcccnet.johnco.cc.ks.us/~jjackson/oly.html

The University of Haifa Library - Aphrodite
http://www-lib.haifa.ac.il/www/art/mythology_westart_aphrodite.htm

A List of Greek Gods and Goddesses by Frederick John Kluth of Kent, Ohio
http://apk.net/~fjk/glist.html

Aphrodite in Ancient Greek Art
http://apk.net/~fjk/aphro.htm

The University of Haifa Library - Mythology and Images of Western Art
http://www-lib.haifa.ac.il/www/art/Mythology_westart.html

MSN Encarta Reference - Aphrodite
http://encarta.msn.com/find/Concise.asp?ti=036CF000

The Ancient Greek World - University of Pennsylvania Museum's web exhibit features an outline covering 5 main topics:

  1. Land and Archeological Time with topics of The Land, Time Line, and Greek Pottery;
  2. Daily life with topics of The Greek House, Women's Life and Men's Life;
  3. the Economy with topics of coinage, pottery, bronze;
  4. Religion and Death with topics of Greek Religion, Greek Games and Greek view of Death;
  5. and some extra topics on Women and Goddesses, Gods and Heroes, pottery, chariots and vases.

Grose Educational Media has a web site for Greek Gods that gives nice images and a crossword for Mythology.

The Perseus Project has four links listed below:
  1. The main page is found here: Perseus Project Main Web Page - Tufts U.
  2. Related web sites are found here: Perseus Related Web sties
  3. Try this web site for information on Hercules: Perseus Hercules - Greece's Greatest Hero
  4. Next, you can look at Perseus The 12 Labors of Hercules
CSUN California State University - Northridge

This website has a chart and links for Hercules and the Rulers of Greece has interesting web links lower down on the main page "some . It is part of Prof. John Adams site that links and other materials".
Try out
Roman History for many links and scroll down for Greek History and Civilization.
Check out the
Archaeology links for Greece and Greeco-Roman links.
Prof. Adams has
Art and Archaeology has visuals for Greece.
A list of 35 handouts for the
Classics 315 class that contain details for you to read under the topic of Greek Mythology.
If you want just the
extra various links, they are here and they have no descriptions, so discover for yourself.

More Web Based Learning resources

The University of Victoria Web Based Learning
bulletClassical Myths - The Ancient Sources Greek Gods Classical Myth - University of Victoria / L. Bowman.
bulletThe 15 Olympian Gods are presented in images and text on this web page.
bulletThe Attributes in Iconography shows details of images and description for several Gods.
bulletThe Time Line of Greek History and Literature presents a chart with links to the Pereus Project.
Advanced Searching Web Based Learning

For the Greek Geek, The University of Evansville has an excellent overview of Greece at the Exploring Ancient World Cultures web page. This one web based learning resource will do 7 wonders for you. The Chronology of Greece provides web based links to sites starting at 3300 BCE and has a hot spot for searching. The Image Index is arranged for handy accessing to major web based image banks. The Site Index gives many new web based outside links on many topics. The University of Evansville has an Associated Sites. Search the site at Argos Search Site - University of Evansville or follow some of their links.

For the advanced stuff and for the do your own searching on the web, look at Ancient World Web, this may give the extra spice you need in ancient life - pure virgin Olive Oil!

This special web based learning site is in Greece. The Ancient Gods have information on The Olympians are a group of 12 Gods, The Titans, other Gods and Semi-Gods and the Gods Family Tree. Then, you can start on your essential briefing of the Philosophy of Aristotle.

Mount Olympus - Greece (satellite shot)

 

Created March 15, 2001, revision date: April 13, 2005  

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