Post your links in the comments section here.
http://womeninworldhistory.com/lesson2.html
This website contains information on women in ancient Babylon. Some women held important roles, such as priestesses, and were able to have power and own land, others were slaves. There is an excellent picture of a cuneiform set of laws. (Submitted by Morgan Unger.)
http://www.mystae.com/restricted/streams/vela/uruk.html
This website describes the city state of Uruk and links Gilgamesh to the
city itself. (Submitted by Lindsay Pappas.)
48 Responses to “LINKS project”
September 18th, 2007 at 9:35 am
http://www.temple.edu/classics/iliadho.html
This is a study guide for The Illiad by Homer. It is designed for the Robert Fagles translation, and has questions/comments for every book.
September 18th, 2007 at 10:17 am
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/hamcode.html
This website contains information on Hammurabi’s code. It contains 282 interesting laws denoting social stratification, particular class laws, laws regarding slavery, property, violence and so on. This text is part of the Internet Ancient History Sourcebook, of Fordham university and is an excellent resource for ancient texts.
September 18th, 2007 at 10:21 am
http://www.maxwell.syr.edu/maxpages/classes/His311/Lecture%20Three/LectureThree.htm
This website is about the Twelfth Century Rennaisance. It contains information about the intellectual revolution and advances in the production of books.
-Brian Simoneau
September 18th, 2007 at 3:07 pm
http://gallery.sjsu.edu/sacrifice/sumerians.html
This website has information about sacrfices regarding Sumerian culture. The site has great photos of Sumerian artifacts and alot of great information about when and where sacrfices occured.
( Jessica Draper)
September 18th, 2007 at 8:57 pm
http://academic.reed.edu/humanities/110Tech/Iliad.html
This website contains information related to the Iliad. It has many useful
features including a map, a timeline, and an outline. It also has links to
sites dealing with art and archaeological findings.
(Rebecca Newman)
September 19th, 2007 at 2:29 pm
This website has many images and a lot of good information about The Iliad. It allows the reader to relate images to major events in the story. The visuals are very nice and each of them is explained well. Overall it is an affective and useful site.
September 19th, 2007 at 2:32 pm
Sorry the website is http://www.uark.edu/campus-resources/achilles/iliad/iliad.html
September 19th, 2007 at 2:38 pm
This site has general information on ancient greek history and civilization. It also has a timeline from 3000BC to 30BC.
September 19th, 2007 at 2:39 pm
http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/prehistory/aegean/
September 19th, 2007 at 3:21 pm
http://www.museum.upenn.edu/Greek_World/Index.html
This website has shows you a variety of artifacts from the Ancient Greeks and also is in depth at giving you background information on all different aspects of their daily life and culture.
September 19th, 2007 at 3:34 pm
This is a .com website but i believed it was a good website to give a novice on greek myth some good general backround. It goes through all the characters and different stories. It’s not to in depth but overall will give you a good enough idea for the story to get you started.
September 19th, 2007 at 3:38 pm
Theoi Greek Mythology Project
http://www.theoi.com/
A very in-depth collection and summary of the Greek gods, goddesses, spirits, nymphs, monsters, etc.
(Rebecca O’Neil)
September 19th, 2007 at 4:16 pm
This website contains useful information about Sumerian life and culture ranging from government and writing to religion and law.
September 19th, 2007 at 4:40 pm
This site was produced by Professor Canary of the University of Wisconsin-Parkside Kenosha. This site provides a very brief overview of the books of the Iliad. If one clicks on one of the gods, it opens a page that is devoted to explaining all about the gods and their origins. One can also click on a character from the Iliad and an additional page will come up describing that character and their origins. This site is great to learn the mythology of the Iliad and it provides a brief overview of Homer’s epic poem. (Submitted by Michael Quercio)
September 19th, 2007 at 4:41 pm
http://oldweb.uwp.edu/academic/english/canary/iliad.html
September 19th, 2007 at 5:19 pm
This is an online version of the epic of Gilgamesh enjoy.
September 19th, 2007 at 5:33 pm
http://www.pantheon.org/areas/mythology/europe/greek/
This website provides plentiful background information on Greek mythology, including genealogy tables, descriptions of Greek gods and people, as well as some of the myth stories.
(Kristina Foley)
September 19th, 2007 at 6:04 pm
A summary of Charlemagne’s career in establishing the Holy Roman Empire, and bringing Europe out of the Dark Ages following the fall of Rome.
September 19th, 2007 at 6:05 pm
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/einhard.html
September 19th, 2007 at 7:10 pm
This website highlights the importance of women and children in two religious festivals in Ancient Greece: the Mystoies of Dionysus and Thesmophoria (a fertility festival in honor of Demeter).
September 20th, 2007 at 12:30 am
http://www.archaeology.org/0405/etc/troy.html
Article on how researchers and archaeologists have been excavating to prove whether or not the Trojan War actually took place.
September 20th, 2007 at 10:01 am
http://depthome.brooklyn.cuny.edu/classics/dunkle/studyguide/vergil.htm
This site adresses Virgil’s Aeniad, which was a major influence on early-Augustus Rome. The site adresses the Aeniad as a work of Literature, in its historical context, and has tips on getting through the text.
September 20th, 2007 at 4:59 pm
This website contains background information on the city of Troy and some information about modern Troy and its discovery. There is also good information on Troy and the Trojan war.
September 20th, 2007 at 6:44 pm
This site has a nice picture of a ziggurat, along with some nice information on ancient Mesopotamia.
September 20th, 2007 at 7:07 pm
http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/GREECE/GREECE.HTM
This website talks about the first Peloponnesian war, why Athens prospered,
Athenian democracy and why the city’s golden age ended. (Elise Grover)
September 20th, 2007 at 7:20 pm
In addition to giving a general overview of
The Iliad, it also allows you to click on the names of characters, which
proves to be helpful in keeping track of the long list of characters.
http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-11600/Homer
September 20th, 2007 at 8:00 pm
This site is great i found it a few nights ago and it lists several different texts from mesopotamian, sumerian and other ancient cultures. enjoy.
September 20th, 2007 at 8:01 pm
This website is devoted to how Myth’s displayed the role of masculinity amongst Gods. It explores how violence and sexuality is a common theme amongst them, and how running along with this theme is an ambiguous sexuality. It is believed by some scholars that Gilgamesh might have been bisexual, since the text of his Epic reads that he “embraced Enkidu as a wife,” which leaves the reader a deal of interpretation to do.
Homosexuality was not shunned by Greek societies and therefor it is entirely possible that such a relationship could have been implied between Gilgamesh and Enkidu, as unlikely as it might seem.
September 20th, 2007 at 8:23 pm
http://www.pbs.org/empires/martinluther/index.html
This website is all about Martin Luther. He was responsible for the Protestant
Reformation. He can be remembered by the way he challenged the church, most
importantly with his “95 Theses” which he posed on the church door. On the
website you can see there are sections for more information on Luther, key
people
in his life, trivia and even an interactive “day in the life of a monk”
activity.
(Allison Evans)
September 20th, 2007 at 8:23 pm
http://www.ancientscripts.com/sumerian.html
This website shows different ancient writing systems, and scripts. It shows the
ancient alphabets along with some background about the civilization.
Tom Maholchic
September 20th, 2007 at 8:24 pm
http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/MESO/SUMER.HTM
This website contains useful information about Sumerian life and culture
ranging from government and writing to religion and law.
September 20th, 2007 at 8:24 pm
http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/MESO/AKKAD.HTM
This website discusses the Akkadian Empire’s ruling from 2340- 2125 BC. It is
very difficult to accurately portray what occurred during this era due to poor
record keeping, but the great military leader Sargon was mentioned for
conquering Sumer and building the Akkadian Empire. This empire later became
Babylon.
September 20th, 2007 at 8:26 pm
http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/Mythology/Thetis.html
This website is about Thetis, Achilles mother, and her relationship with other
gods. On this site there are many images related towards Thetis, there are also
links to other sites that contain information about other gods.
Marguerite Cogliano
September 20th, 2007 at 8:27 pm
http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/numismatics/corinth/
This is a Smithsonian website that describes the beginning of coinage in the
ancient Greek city of Corinth. The website explains the importance of the
beginning of coinage to Greece, and the religious ties to the ancient Greek
gods.
It has links to various pictures of different coins from ancient Greece.
Hannah Honzel
September 20th, 2007 at 8:28 pm
http://www.answersingenesis.org/docs2004/0329gilgamesh.asp
This Web page was designed to Anallise the Epic of Gilgamesh. This page gives an
in
depth overview of the Epic of Gilgamesh and also spends a good amount of time on
the comparison of Genesis and Gilgamesh’s epic. It compares and contrasts
certain aspects of each reading and shows the relationship between the two.
Grayson Dorvel
September 20th, 2007 at 10:47 pm
http://java.nationalgeographic.com/studentatlas/clickup/mesopotamia.html
This site has a nice picture of a ziggurat, along with some nice information on ancient Mesopotamia.
September 21st, 2007 at 5:56 am
The website shows informations about Gilgamesh and about ancient Sumer.
http://novaonline.nvcc.edu/eli/eng251/gilgameshstudy.htm
September 22nd, 2007 at 5:53 pm
This website contains detailed information about students at the University Of Pennsylvania and their neverending quest to publish a complete sumerian dictionary.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/07/0723_020724_cuneiform.html
September 22nd, 2007 at 9:48 pm
http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/MINOA/HOMER.HTM
The website provides a brief historical context of the Iliad and the Odyssey.
(Nika Tomasic)
September 23rd, 2007 at 6:20 pm
This website has numerous maps (primary/secondary) of different empires during the middle ages
September 23rd, 2007 at 8:22 pm
http://news-panther.nationalgeographic.com/news/
2002/07/0723_020724_cuneiform.html
This article is about translating Sumerian language and texts. Scholars studying
cuneiform at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archeology and
Anthropology are planning to release an early version of the first Sumerian
dictionary. This article explains how the dictionary project will help learn
more about Sumerian culture, medicine, literature, mathematics, politics, etc.
The Epic of Gilgamesh is also mentioned as a great Sumerian achievement. These
scholars are starting to understand more about Sumerian culture through
understanding the language.
(Emily Taylor)
September 23rd, 2007 at 8:26 pm
This website contains great
information on the
numerous Greek philosophers of ancient Greece. Such philosophers like Thales and
Zeno are
highlighted in this excellent website. http://www.thebigview.com/greeks/
Jaren Amoroso
September 24th, 2007 at 10:17 pm
This site explains the sculpture of Laocoon from the Hellenistic period of Greek art. Legend says he tried to warn the Trojans about the Greek ambush, and was strangled by two sea serpents sent by the gods in favor of Greece.
September 25th, 2007 at 5:14 pm
This is a website with different links to ancient systems of writing. It has information on Akkadian cuneiform and shows examples of their alphabet and such.
September 25th, 2007 at 5:52 pm
This site gives a short biography of Homer and gives good links to images relating to the battle at Troy. The site also gives insight on Greek beliefs and also mentions the relation to the Epic of Gilgamesh.
September 25th, 2007 at 9:19 pm
It’s an interesting essay about Gilgamesh
and the importance of ancient texts and the hero’s journey in understanding the
meaning of like and the human condition.
http://eawc.evansville.edu/essays/brown.htm
(John Clarke)
September 27th, 2007 at 10:46 pm
http://history.boisestate.edu/westciv/plague/
This website contains information about the Black Plague A.K.A. The Black Death
A.K.A. the Bubonic Plague. The website is organized by categories and contains
reliable information regarding the Black Plague. (Submitted by Ashley Bree)
October 1st, 2007 at 2:47 pm
This website contains some useful facts from the Illiad.