Internet Ancient History Sourcebook:

Greece

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WEB Prehistoric Archeology of the Aegean [At Dartmouth]

A beautifully produced online course on Crete and Mycenae. It must be seen. Text and images.

Prehistoric Archeology of the Aegean [At Dartmouth] A beautifully produced online course on Crete and Mycenae. It must be seen. Text and images. WEB Images of Mycenae [At UCCS]

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The Persian Wars (449-479 BCE)

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Documents of the Rise of Hellenic Tyranny, c. 650-550 BCE [At this Site]

From Herodotus Plutarch, about Corinth and Athens.

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The Peloponnesian War

(431-404 BCE) and After

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Xenophon (c.428-c.354 BCE): The Battle of Leuctra, (371 BCE) from the Hellenica [At this Site]

Account of the defeat of Sparta by Theban forces and the ending of the Spartan supremacy..

Account of the defeat of Sparta by Theban forces and the ending of the Spartan supremacy.. Cornelius Nepos (c.99-c.24 BCE): From Life of Epaminondas (d.362 BCE)(written c. 30 BCE) [This Site]

Plutarch (c.46-c.120 CE): Life of Pelopidas (c.410- 362 BCE)[At MIT]

Xenophon (c.428-c.354 BCE): Anabasis, or March Up Country or Persia Expedition, full text [At this Site]

The story of a Greek army of mercenaries and their march into the Persian Empire.

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Philip II

of Macedon (r. 339-336 BCE)

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All the major Greek plays are online, as well as substantial amount of criticism and theorising. The links here are to the plain text version at various sites or here. [The old Virgina Tech gopher site has disappeared, but these files are from there.] In addition there are HTML versions of all text available at WEB MIT Classics Archive. Where more modern translations are on the net, they are indicated. See also

MIT Classics Archive. Where more modern translations are on the net, they are indicated. See also WEB Didaskalia: Play Texts Online [Website]

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Documents on Greek Slavery, c. 750 - 330 BCE [At this Site]

from Hesiod, Strabo, Antiphon, Demosthenes, and Aristotle.

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Greek Law

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NOTES:

Dates of accession of material added since July 1998 can be seen in the New Additions page..

The date of inception was 4/8/1998.

Links to files at other site are indicated by [At some indication of the site name or location].

Locally available texts are marked by [At this Site].

WEB indicates a link to one of small number of high quality web sites which provide either more texts or an especially valuable overview.

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