WEBSITES AND LINKS
FOR DR. MARTIN'S COURSES
HIST 390: ANCIENT GREECE
The following websites are divided by chapter according to
Nancy Demand's text
Chapter 1: Greek Environment and Prehistory
1.1: Pictures of the Franchthi Cave
Chapter 2: Minoan Crete
2.1: Horns of Consecration
2.2: Numerous Photos of Minoan Subjects
2.3: The Palace at Knossos
2.4: Linear A Script
2.5: Thera (Santorini) and the Frescoes
Hellenic Ministry of Culture site
Dartmouth site
Chapter 3: Mycenaean Greece
3.1: Linear B
Michael Ventris site
Univ of Texas site
Cambridge Univ site (under revisement)
Dartmouth site
3.2: Investigate the Ulu Burun Shipwreck Yourself--an interactive website
another site, courtesy of Dr. Ellen Bedell of the Ellis School, on iron age, please investigate for comparative purposes for this course
Chapter 4: From the Bronze Age to the Iron Age--A Dark Age?
4.1: The Medinet Habu Inscriptions
4.2: The Incursion of the Sea Peoples
Chapter 5: Archaic Greece: The Eighth-Century Renaissance and Revolution
5.1: On the Phoenician Origin of the Alphabet, with Herodotus' Story of how this happened
Chapter 6: Crisis in the Polis: Two Solutions
6.1: Analysis of Corinthian Pottery
Aristotle, Constitution of Corinth
Chapter 7: Archaic Athens: Crisis and Reform
7.1: Dionysus Depicted on Vases
Chapter 8: Archaic Ionia: Greeks and Persians
Source Analysis on p. 180 about gold-bearing ants
Chapter 10: Athens: The Development of Empire and Democracy
10.1: The Acropolis
10.2a: Parthenon Frieze
10.2b: Alternate Interpretation
10.3: Compare Apadana Frieze to Parthenon Frieze
10.4a: The Trireme
10.4b: Reconstruction of Trireme
