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CLASSICS-RELATED WEB SITES
Sites
for Classicists and Archaeologists
Sites
for Learning Ancient Greek
ORGANIZATIONS AND CLUBS FOR CLASSICISTS,
ARCHAEOLOGISTS, AND FRIENDS
New York Classical Club (NYCC)
hosts three lectures/conferences a year, runs a job board for
secondary-school teachers in the tri-state metro area, and offers
prizes/scholarships to those who have been members for three years or more.
Membership costs only $5.00/year for students and seniors. (http://www.nightingale.org/nycc)
The New York Aegean
Bronze Age Colloquium is a lecture series organized by Robert Koehl, Professor of Classics at Hunter College. Monthly
lectures, open to interested individuals, are presented by specialists in
the Aegean Bronze Age. Most of the lectures are held at New York
University's Institute of Fine Arts, 1 East 78th Street (at the
corner of 5th Avenue).
To inquire about the lectures, or to have your name put on the e-mail list,
contact Professor Robert Koehl. (rkoehl@hunter.cuny.edu)
The Classical Association of the Empire State
(CAES) is an organization for teachers/professors of Greek and Latin
and those interested in promoting the study of the classical languages and
civilizations throughout New York State. (http://www.caesny.org/)
The Classical Association of the Atlantic
States (CAAS) is an organization open to teachers, professors and
students/lovers of Classics throughout the Atlantic States. CAAS also
offers regional placement services for Latin and Greek teachers in the
secondary schools. (http://www.caas-cw.org)
The Classical Association of the Middle West
and South (CAMWS) is another regional organization devoted to the
Classics. (http://www.camws.org)
The Women's Classical Caucus (WCC)
sponsors a newsletter and presents panels aimed at incorporating feminist
and gender-informed perspectives in the study and teaching of all aspects
of ancient Mediterranean cultures, particularly the study of women in
classical antiquity. http://www.wccaucus.org)
The American Classical League (ACL) is
a great organization for Classics teachers. ACL provides a list of
undergraduate programs and secondary-school programs in Classics; a
national placement service for secondary-school Latin and Greek teachers;
links to Latin texts and teaching tools on the Web; and sites devoted to
Classics and education. (http://www.aclclassics.org)
The American Philological Association
(APA) is the principal learned society of North America
devoted to the study and advancement of Classics. The APA offers a
placement service for university teachers of Greek, Latin, and the
Classics. Its web site provides links to a host of Classics organizations,
journals, online resources, and educational books on teaching/studying the
Classics. (http://www.apaclassics.org)
Archaeological Institute of American
(AIA) is the oldest and largest archaeological organization in North America. The AIA web site provides lists of
archaeological sites on the Web, and specifies which sites are meant for
(1) teachers and students, (2) middle-school students, and (3) general use.
(http://www.archaeological.org/)
FAVORITE
SITES FOR CLASSICISTS AND ARCHAEOLOGISTS
There are thousands of sites on the
Web devoted to Classics and Ancient Mediterranean archaeology.The
following sites are particularly outstanding and link with a host of other
sites.
Perseus is a continually growing
digital library of resources for studying the ancient world. The library's
materials include ancient texts and translations, philological tools, maps,
extensively illustrated art catalogs, and secondary essays on topics like
vase painting. Gregory Crane is the editor of the Perseus
Project, located in the Classics Department of Tufts University. (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu)
Roman Perseus--with
its Latin texts, commentaries, and lexical/morphological tools--can now be
accessed as well. (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/neh.ann.html)
Lacus Curtius
is Bill Thayer's site on Roman antiquity, including Latin texts, a book on
Roman roads in Britain,
and hundreds of photographs of Roman monuments. The RomanSites
archives links to about 1300 web sites dealing with ancient Rome. (http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/home.html)
ROMARCH:
Roman Art and Archaeology is the original crossroads for Web resources on
the art and archaeology of Italy
and the Roman provinces, ca. 1000 BC - AD 700. This site is edited by Pedar Foss of the University of Cincinnati and
supported by the University of Michigan. (http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/departs/classical/dropbox/ROMARCH.html)
VRoma: This virtual community for teaching
and learning Classics includes resources, images, and reference materials.
The site forms the center of a virtual Classics community that contributes
to the learning experience through imaginative participation in the virtual
reality of ancient Roman space and culture. (http://www.vroma.org/)
Diotima contains materials for the
study of women and gender in the ancient world. This site is edited by Ross
Scaife of University of Kentucky and by Suzanne Bonefas of Miami University.
(http://www.stoa.org/diotima/)
Interactive Ancient Mediterranean (IAM)
is an online atlas of the ancient Mediterranean world designed to serve the
needs and interests of students and teachers in high school, community
college and university courses in classics, ancient history, geography,
archaeology and related fields. Tom Elliott is the Project Manager of this
cooperative effort between the American Philological Association and the
Departments of Classics and History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. (http://iam.classics.unc.edu/)
Electronic Resources for
Classicists: The Second Generation collects links to Internet resources
of interest to classicists and Mediterranean archaeologists. It is edited
by Maria Pantelia of The University of
California, Irvine.
(http://www.tlg.uci.edu/index/about.html)
MythMedia:
Mythology in Western Art offers a collection of art images relating to
Classical mythology, and links to other internet resources about myth. It
was prepared by Ora Zehavi
and Dr. Sonia Klinger of The University of Haifa. (http://lib.haifa.ac.il/www/art/mythology_westart.html)
Classical Mythology.org
offers an online resource for those working with Morford
and Lenardon's textbook, Classical Mythology,
published by Oxford University Press. The site is also useful for any
student of ancient Greek mythology. (http://www.classicalmythology.org)
For those interested
in Ancient
Greek Sports, see "The Ancient Olympics: A Special Exhibit of the Perseus Digital Project" at (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/Olympics/)
For those interested
in Roman
Gladiatorial Games, connect to this site, click on "Special
Lectures"; then scroll down and click on "Lecture of Thursday,
November 6: The Roman Gladiator" by Roger Dunkle
of the Brooklyn College Classics Department. (http://depthome.brooklyn.cuny.edu/classics/)
FAVORITE SITES FOR THOSE LEARNING ANCIENT GREEK
Greek Grammar on the
Web, by Professor Marc Huys of Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium, provides an
"Electronic Gateway to the Study of Ancient Greek" for beginning
students interested in learning more about the alphabet, accentuation,
pronunciation, and numerals. Linked sites are annotated and starred for
usefulness. Professor Huys' main page links to
such topics as: History of the Greek Language; Advanced Study of the
Language, and Why Study Ancient Greek?
(http://perswww.kuleuven.ac.be/~u0013314/greekg.htm)
Independent Study in Greek, by Dr. Janice Siegel at Illinois State
University, offers students of Ancient Greek a number of links to web
resources, Classical Greek Fonts and Utilities, and other useful sites.
(http://lilt.ilstu.edu/drjclassics/ISUclassics/Greek/Greek_at_ISU.htm)
The Ancient Greek Tutorial site of the Department of Classics, University
of California at Berkeley,
provides tutorials for anyone learning ancient Greek. The project belongs
to Professor Donald Mastronarde, who has authored
a textbook upon which the material is based. The site is made available
through the University of California Press. (http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~ancgreek/welcome.html)
John Gruber-Miller of Cornell University has posted "Let's Review
Greek!" It links to elementary and intermediate readings, on-line
exercises, easy Ancient Greek Grammars, and other goodies. (http://www.cornellcollege.edu/classical_studies/reviewgreek/greekgrammar.shtml)
Also see the new Ariadne:
Resources for Athenaze, conceived by John Gruber-Miller and Cindy
Benton. The website offer activities that integrate language and culture
and to help Greek language students and their teachers see the ancient
world through others' eyes: women, metics,
slaves, non-Athenians, and non-Greeks. By including images of the
multicultural world of the ancient Aegean, culture questions, readings of
ancient Greek texts and inscriptions, writing activities, and oral scripts,
Ariadne provides a multisensory
environment for learning ancient Greek that provides a balance between
sentence-level grammar and discourse-centered activities. http://cornellcollege.edu/classical_studies/ariadne/
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