Mythology - Homer - Dante - Milton - Herodotus - Thucydides - Gibbon - Lucian - Juvenal - Plautus - Sophocles - Plutarch - Shakespeare

Resources for Classical Mythology

• Perseus: The most useful site for studying ancient Greece and Rome.Includes maps, texts, pictures and more.
• Classical Myth: An excellent survey of Greek mythology
• Bulfinch's Mytholgy: The old standard, available on-line.
• Greek Mythological Link: an amazingly comprehensive site; better for tracking down details and variants between myths than for a narrative presentation of myths.
• Theoi Project: a guide to Greek gods, spirits, and monsters
• Mythology in Western Art contains a wide range of mythological iconography
• Diotima: Devoted mainly to the study of women and gender in antiquity
• Classics and Mediterranean Archaeology: A comprehensive catalogue of sites related to Classics.
• Encyclopedia Mythica is an encyclopedia of mytholgy, folklore, and legend

Resources for the Study of Homer

• A brief summary of the Iliad and its principal characters
• Achilles, Odysseus, Agamemnon: Homer on Military Leadership, a paper delivered at the Pentagon
• The official website of USA's Helen of Troy
• Homer's Odyssey (to the tune of Yellow Submarine)

Resources for the Study of Virgil:

• The story of the Aeneid in brief
• A Map of Aeneas's wanderings

Resources for the Study of Dante:

• Digital Dante:Your first stop for all Dante Information
• A Chronology of Dante's Life
• A list of many maps and schematic descriptions of Dante's cosmos
• Dante's vivid description of the underworld have inspired many visual artists. Here's a nice collection of paintings, etchings, and drawings with the passages that inspired them.
• A collection of Dante texts in Latin and Italian

A fan of the movie Hannibal? Here's an essay explaining its debt to Dante

• A list of Virgilian elements in the Inferno
• Been Bad? Take the Dante’s Infero Test to determine your place in Dante’s cosmos
• Many Dantesque touches can be seen in Rodin's "Gates of Hell"

Resources for the Study of Milton:

• One of the most visual of poets, Milton has inspired many works of art
• A collection of the text, images, FAQs and more
• The story of Lilith: Adam's strong-willed first wife whose story was edited out of the Book of Genesis
• Several editions of Paradise Lost
• A Chronology of Milton's Life
• Outline of Milton’s Paradise Lost

Resources for the Study of Herodotus:

• A great collection of introductions to Herodotus
• Summaries of the 9 Books of the Histories
• Timeline of Events in Herodotus
• Maps of Herodotus's world
• Herodotus's Influence on the English Patient
• Complete Text of Herodotus's Histories

Resources for the Study of Thucydides:

• Short introduction to Thucydides
• Detailed introduction to Thucydides
• Complete text of Thucydides's Peloponnesian War

Resources for the Study of Gibbon:

• Highlights from Volume I of Gibbon
• A collection of links about the Fall of Rome
• An alternative, recent interpretation of the Fall of Rome by J. O'Donnell
• The incredible Gibbon-o-matic! A random quote generator

Resources for the Study of Lucian:

• Brief Introduction to Lucian; another introduction
• An essay exploring Lucian's True History as Science Fiction
• Complete text of Lucian's True History

Resources for the Study of Juvenal:

• Introduction to Juvenal
• An interesting essay of "Lessons from Juvenal" by Roger Kimball

Resources for the Study of Plautus:

• Meanings of the names in the Miles Gloriosus
• A ranked index of webpages on Roman theater
• Images of the Ancient Stage
• A timeline of masks used in ancient theater
• Comic Devices and Conventions in the Miles Gloriosus
• A student webpage that contains a basic introduction to Plautus and his plays

Resources for the Study of Antigone:

• An introduction to the Theban Cycle: story of Oedipus and his children
• A more detailed survey of the Theban Cycle by the ancient mythographer Apollodorus
• Images of the Ancient Stage
• A collection of resources on Sophocles
• A good, brief introduction to Attic Drama
• 3-D Reconstruction of the Theater of Dionysus in Athens
• For a lighter take on tragedy, check out the great scholar and poet A.E. Housman's parody of Aeschylus, "Fragment of a Greek Tragedy"
• Ancient Images of the Sphinx
• Outline of Aristotle's Theory of Tragedy
• Summary of the German philosopher Hegel's influential interpretation of Antigone

Resources for the Study of Plutarch:

• An introduction to Plutarch's Parallel Lives

Resources for the Study of Shakespeare

• Brief biography of Julius Caesar
• Complete text of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar
• Complete text of Plutarch's Life of Caesar
• Caesar is assassinated in the portico to Pompey's Theater. Here's a excellent site featuring plans of the ancient theater and modern photographs of the site.
• Outline of the "3 Unities" that defined Renaissance theater
• Classical Sources for Shakespeare's Julius Caesar
• Shakespeare Illustrated explores 19th century paintings, criticism, and productions.
• Information about Mankiewicz's film version of Julius Caesar