Archaic Age and the Rise of the Polis

Rise of the Polis in images

Greece map

Phalanx and Hoplite

Herodotus website by John Kitson (UK)

Solon of Athens


Overview of the Pre-Socratics; see also the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy and (for a very full account), the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

An outline of the Pre-Socratics (and the Big Question, What is the arche or "first principle"?).

Diagram of the Influence of Socrates in ancient philosophy

Graph of the Pre-Socratics

This account of ancient Greek psychology contains a map detailing where the Pre-Socratics were from.

An illustration of Zeno's paradox


About Xerxes, Achaemenid king of the Persian Empire, ruled from 486 to 465

Marathon

Thermopylae


History of Media and Persia

Map of ancient Persia

Maps from the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago

3 ages of Greek Art: Archaic (kore & kouros); Classical (doryphoros and quotation by Pliny; marathon boy); Hellenistic (Laocoön).

Some study questions on Herodotus


Questions about Antigone

Questions about Oedipus the King

Questions about Oedipus at Colonus

changed October 2, 2007