Crash Course
The Greeks and Romans - Pantheons Part 3: Crash Course World Mythology
This week, we continue our look at various Pantheons, and Mike digs deep into the gods of the ancient Greeks. We're talking Zeus, Hera, Poseidon, Hades, Artemis, Hephaestos, Ares, and Apollo. We're also talking Jupiter, Juno, Neptune,...
Bedtime History
The Iliad Story for Kids | Bedtime History
Unravel the timeless tale of gods, heroes, and the legendary Trojan War that has fascinated audiences for millennia. Discover the origins of Homer's masterpiece, its cultural significance in the ancient world, and its enduring impact on...
Curated Video
Julius Caesar 1.2 Digression: Homer's Iliad and Odyssey
Understand the basics of the Battle of Troy as well as how and why it is referenced in Act 1, Scene 2 of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.
Mythology & Fiction Explained
Hera - The Queen of Olympus | Greek Mythology Explained
Mythology & Fiction Explained explores the story of the queen of Olympus herself, Hera! We take a look at the domains and worship surrounding Hera, as well as the many stories she appears in. The story of how she married Zeus, her...
Curated Video
Turkey, Ancient City Aphrodisias
Aphrodisias was the metropolis of the region and Roman province of Caria. White and blue grey Carian marble was extensively quarried from adjacent slopes in the Hellenistic and Roman periods, for building facades and sculptures. Marble...
Curated Video
Greece, Delos Island
Delos Island is one of the smallest of the Cyclades, an ancient centre of religious, political, and commercial life in the Aegean Sea. Delos had a position as a holy sanctuary for a millennium before Olympian Greek mythology made it the...
Curated Video
Learning Akka (Video 9)
Akka helps you to build scalable, resilient, and fault-tolerant distributed systems that can provide outstanding performance on local machines as well as over remote networks. Employing the actor model, it is possible to leverage these...
Curated Video
Turkey, Aphrodisias - Aphrodite Temple
The Temple of Aphrodite was a focal point of the town, but the character of the building was altered when it became a Christian basilica. The Aphrodisian sculptors became renowned and benefited from a plentiful supply of marble close at...
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Turkey, Aphrodisias Sebasteion
The Sebasteion, or Augusteum, was jointly dedicated, according to a 1st-century inscription on its propylon, "To Aphrodite, the Divine Augusti and the People". A relief found in the ruins of the south portico represented a...
Curated Video
Turkey, Aphrodisias Stadium
The Stadium was built in the later first century AD and with the Theatre completed the town's need for large-capacity spectator buildings. Unusually for a Greek stadium, it is closed at both ends. It measures c. 270 X 60 m, and has...
Curated Video
Turkey, Aphrodisias - the Theatre
The original theatre of Aphrodisias in Asia Minor in Turkey, dates from the Late Hellenistic period, but it was extensively renovated between 38 and 28 BC. An architrave inscription records that the remodeled theater was dedicated to...
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Turkey, Aphrodisias - the Bouleuterion (Odeon)
The bouleuterion (council house), or odeon, is centered on the north side of the North Agora. As it stands today, it consists of a semicircular auditorium fronted by a shallow stage structure about 46 m wide. The lower part of the...
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Turkey, Aphrodisias - Hadrian's Baths
Hadrian, the Roman Emperor, came to Aphrodisias in one of his travels in Anatolia. The city council had erected these baths the memory of this visit. Baths consists of two large sections of men and women, who washed separately. There is...
Bridgeman Arts
Owl & Venus Fly Trap 1920s
B&W. Title: A Wise Old Bird. An owl sitting on a fence. Close up of talons. A man puts owl in trance and lays it on its back on two flower pots. He wakes it, it flaps around on his arm. Owl sat on flower pot in rain. It flies onto...
Bridgeman Arts
Philipp Otto Runge - The Morning
In his famous paintings The Small Morning and The Large Morning (1808/1809), Philipp Otto Runge Runge gave apposite expression to the Romantic view of nature that was based on cyclical patterns of life. ""The Morning"" is elevating in...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Ancient Greece: Lesson 2
This lesson will present an overview of Ancient Greece. It is 2 of 3 in the series titled "Ancient Greece."