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Greek Gods

Greek Gods: Greek Heroes: Heracles

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site focuses on the Greek hero Heracles including his ancestry, pictures, events in his life, and links to myths about him.
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Greek Gods

Greek Gods: Demigods & Spirits: Tyche

For Students 9th - 10th
Read to learn more about Tyche, the Greek goddess of fortune, chance, and the unpredictable, who was the personification of hope, luck, and wealth.
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Greek Gods

Greek Gods: Demigods & Spirits: Selene

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about Selene, the goddess of the moon, the night and the months, and see her pictures.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art: Timeline of Art History; Statue of Diadoumenos

For Students 9th - 10th
From the Metropolitan Museum of Art this page details the 1st century Roman relief sculpture "Statue of Diadoumenos (youth tying a fillet around his head)" with a description and images of the piece.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art: Timeline of Art History; Statue of a Wounded Amazon

For Students 9th - 10th
From the Metropolitan Museum of Art this page details the 1st century A.D. Roman sculpture "Statue of a wounded Amazon" with a description and images of the piece.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art: Timeline Art;statue of Herakles Seated on a Rock

For Students 9th - 10th
From the Metropolitan Museum of Art this page details the 1st century A.D. Roman sculpture "Statue of Herakles seated on a rock" with a description and images of the piece.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art: Timeline of Art History; Torso of a Centaur

For Students 9th - 10th
From the Metropolitan Museum of Art this page details the 1st century A.D. Roman sculpture "Torso of a centaur" with a description and images of the piece.
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Greek Gods

Greek Gods: Greek Heroes: Odysseus

For Students 9th - 10th
This site focuses on Odysseus including his ancestry, his participation in the Trojan War, his ten-year journey at sea, and pictures and myths about him
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Mythweb

Mythweb: The Olympians

For Students 9th - 10th
Mythweb profiles selected gods and goddesses from Greek mythology who ruled from Mt. Olympus, including Aphrodite, Apollo, Ares, Artemis, Athena, Demeter, Dionysus, Hephaestus, Hera, Hermes, Poseidon, and Zeus.
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Greek Gods

Greek Gods: Monsters: Satyrs

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the Satyrs, half-man and half-goat mythological creatures, whose leader was Pan.
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BBC

Bbc: Ks2: Who Were the Ancient Greeks?

For Students 1st - 9th
About 2,500 years ago, Greece was one of the most important places in the ancient world. The Greeks were great thinkers, warriors, writers, actors, athletes, artists, architects and politicians. The name 'Greeks' was given to the people...
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Other

Greek Mythology Link: Hera

For Students 9th - 10th
Zeus' beautiful but jealous wife is explained in detail, including stories of her epic rages. There are images, a chart of family relationships, and an extensive bibliography. Site by Carlos Parada, author of Genealogical Guide to Greek...
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Other

Greek Mythology Link: Hermes

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Author Carlos Parada produces this detailed site about Hermes (Roman name "Mercury"), including quotations from literary works, images of Hermes in art, a chart of family relationships, and an extensive bibliography.
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Other

Greek Mythology Today and Myth of the Month

For Students 9th - 10th
A large Greek mythology site focused on students and expressing a great love of Greek myth. Contains the Myth of the Month, as well as Homework Help concerning myths. Humorous and colorful.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: The Enduring Art of Marble Sculpture

For Students 9th - 10th
In the 5th century B.C., Greek artists perfected an idealized version of the human form, representing figures with youthful, serene faces and toned bodies in elegant, balanced poses. Painters and sculptors of later centuries were greatly...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Gems of Antiquity

For Students 9th - 10th
The beauty of carved gemstones has captivated craftsmen, collectors, and connoisseurs since antiquity. Precious markers of culture and status, gems were sought by Greek and Roman elites, and are still valued by modern monarchs and...
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Mythweb

Mythweb: Greek Mythology: The Labors of Heracles from Greek Mythology

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
A modern retelling of the Greek myth of Heracles, also known in Roman mythology as Hercules. The story begins with Heracles' birth and tells of his twelve labors, including defeating the Nemean Lion, the Hydra, the Minotaur, and more....
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Middlebury College

Middlebury College: Essays on the Latin Authors

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Middlebury College provides unique and useful essays on a variety of Latin authors in ancient Roman literature.
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Google

Google Maps: Virtual Tour of Pergamon Museum, Berlin

For Students 9th - 10th
Take a virtual tour through the Pergamon Museum located on Museum Island in Berlin. This world famous museum has life-size, reconstructed monuments from ancient civilizations, including the Pergamon Altar of Zeus, the Roman Market Gate...
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Famous Scientists

Famous Scientists: Galen

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the man whose medical doctrine dominated the Western and Arab worlds for close to 1500 years.
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Palestinians

For Students 9th - 10th
Palestinians inhabit an area east of the Mediterranean Sea and south of Lebanon. The Jordan River, Lakes Huleh and Tiberias, and the Dead Sea separate Palestine from Jordan. Christians refer to Palestine as "the Holy Land." Today...
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University of Calgary

U Calgary: Italy During the Decline of the Etruscan League and the Rise of Rome

For Students 9th - 10th
A map showing the relative small size of Rome in relation to its neighbors in 380 BC. The Greek colonies are shown at the foot of the boot of Italy, the Etruscan League is to the north and the Italic Tribes to the east.
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Other

Greek Mythology: Zeus

For Students 9th - 10th
This comprehensive resource, compiled by Carlos Parada, author of the Genealogical Guide to Greek Mythology and lecturer at Lund University (Sweden), details Zeus's (Roman name "Jupiter") large family and discusses his many feats and...
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: The Alphabet Is Historic

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Great lesson plans for grades K-2 on the history of the alphabet. Includes guiding question, objectives, and four lessons with activities and assessments. With links to various websites containing information on alphabet history.