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ACHILLES - Great mythology link - this page shows Thetis delivering the new armor to Achilles.

ALLREFER - A comprehensive online encyclopedia.

ARCHAIC GREEK VASES - Wonderful website showing many photos of the various styles of archaic Greek vases, eg. The Chigi Vase, "Herakles killing Nessos," The wedding of Peleus and Thetis on a Dinos by Sophilos, The Francois Vase, Achilles slaying Penthesilea, The suicide of Ajax, etc.

ARTNET - Artist's Biographies; this link is for the MacMillan Painter of the Chigi Vase.

ARTSLIDES - Color Slides for Art Education, since 1940.

Achilles and Ajax - Playing Draughts.
"Agamemnon" - Funeral mask, gold ca. 1500 B.C. From Mycenae. Athens, Nat. Mus.
Athena - Panathenaic Black Figure Amphora 566BC London British Mus.
Chigi Vase - Macmillan Painter. Olpe, Proto-Corinthian: "Chigi vase" (c.640 BC). Detail of Hoplites. From Formello. Orientalizing Per.)
Chigi Vase - Macmillan Painter. Olpe, Proto-Corinthian: "Chigi vase" (c.640 BC). Detail of Lion Hunt. From Formello. Orientalizing Per.)
Dagger blade - Lion hunt (gold, silver). Mycenaen I (1580-1500 B.C.). Fr. Royal Tombs at Mycenae. Athens, Nat. Mus.
Dionysos - Exekias. Kylix: Dionysos in a boat; grapevines (ca. 540 B.C.). Black Figure. Munich, Mus. Antiker Kleinkunst.
Francois Vase - Full view, marriage of Peleus and Thetis Kleitias. Volute krater, Attic, ca. 570 B.C. From Chiusi. Black Figure. Florence, Mus. Archaeol.
Herakles - Column-krater, Corinthian: Herakles at house of Eurytos (late VIIc BC). From Cerveteri. Orientalizing Per. Paris, Louvre.
"Herakles killing Nessos" - Attic Amphora 610-600 BC.
Lions and Bulls - Amphora, Rhodian: Boar, lion, bull, goose (625-600 B.C.). Orientalizing Period. London, Brit. Mus.
Menelaus and Hektor - fighting over Euphorbos
Odysseus - The Blinding of Polyphemos. Amphora, Proto-Attic (675-650 BC). Detail of the blinding. From Eleusis. Orientalizing Period.
Patroklos' Funeral Games - Detail from the Funeral Games of Patroklos.
Warrior Vase - (krater), clay paint ca. 1200 B.C., Mycenaean. From Mycenae. Athens, Nat. Mus.

ATHENS 2004 OLYMPICS - The official website of the 2004 Olympics in Athens, Greece.

AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY ARTSERVE - Art & Architecture mainly from the Mediterranean Basin and Japan.

THE BEAZLEY LIBRARY - has more than 2000 HTML pages with more than 5000 images, an illustrated dictionary of more than 300 pages, bibliographies for classical archaeology and history of collections and illustrated programs for students about pottery, sculpture and engraved gems.

BOBBIT - The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace, and the Course of History, by Phillip Bobbit, 2002.

BRAD PITT - See Brad Pitt as Achilles in the new movie, Troy. Also starring Peter O'Toole, Eric Bana, Orlando Bloom, Brian Cox and Sean Bean.

CALLIOPE - The Judgement of Paris, and many more collections of legends and illustrations.

DEATH OF ACHILLES - From Ovid's Metamorphosis.

ELPENOR - Home of the Greek Word. Lessons in learning Greek; especially, click on Homer.

FRANCOIS VASE - Dartmouth College Classics students visit Florence, Italy's Archaeological Museum. See many photos of the various scenes on the Francois vase, as well as other artifacts, including vases depicting Odysseus, Penelope, Achilles, Aias, etc.

GREEK ART CHRONOLOGY - Showing a chronological table of historical events with named art styles and artifacts associated with these dates, from the Geometric period to the Late Classical period.

HANNAH - The Constellations on Achilles' Shield (ILIAD 18. 485-489), by Robert Hannah, Department of Classics, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. Electronic Antiquity Vol. 2 Issue 4 - December 1994.

HOMER - A historical background to Homer, and an overview of the Iliad.

HOPLITE WARRIORS - Excellent website detailing the development of Hoplite Warfare.

NAGY - The Shield of Achilles: Ends of the Iliad and Beginnings of the Polis. An excellent essay about the City at Peace ring on Achilles' Shield, by Gregory Nagy.

ODYSSEUS - The WWW server of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture. Very comprehensive site puts monuments, museums and archaeological sites of Greece at your fingertips.

PERSEUS DIGITAL LIBRARY - Perseus is a non-profit enterprise, located in the Department of the Classics, Tufts University. Perseus is an evolving digital library, engineering interactions through time, space, and language. Their primary goal is to bring a wide range of source materials to as large an audience as possible. They anticipate that greater accessibility to the sources for the study of the humanities will strengthen the quality of questions, lead to new avenues of research, and connect more people through the connection of ideas.

SHIELD OF ACHILLES PANEL - On the huge bronze doors of the U.S. Supreme Court Building in Washington, D.C.