Culture

Topics in this section look at cultural elements of Ancient Greece.

	Greek Art & Statues
	The Classics - Literature & Poetry
	Theatre
	Democracy & citizenship
	Greek Philosophy
	Homer, The Iliad & the Odyssey
	Sculpture
	Greek Plays & Players
	Literacy & the Greek Alphabet
	Mathematics & Physics
	Astronomy
	The Seven wonders of the World
	Philosophy
	Medicine & Hippocrates

Topic Resources

Greek Art & Statues

The Art of Ancient Greece is known as Classical Art. Greek Art can be seen in the form of sculpture of statues and buildings and also in everyday antiquities such as vases.

	Ancient Greek Art
	Museums of Greece

The Classics - Literature & Poetry

	There are four major periods of Greek literature: preclassical, classical, Hellenistic-Roman, and Byzantine.
	Lyric and Hellenistic Poetry, major poets included Theocritus, Callimachus, and Apollonius of Rhodes.
	Timeline of Greek History and Literature

Theatre

Democracy & citizenship

	Development of Ancient Greek Democracy in Athens
	Greek Government
	Greek Democracy by the BBC

Greek Philosophy

The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Homer, The Iliad & the Odyssey

Homer the author of The Iliad and The Odyssey which chronicle the retelling of myths and legends and history of the time.

Sculpture

Sculpture can be viewed in statues and also in the great Buildings of the time, such as The Parthenon Sculptures

	The Athenian sculptor Phidias 490?- 430? BC directed the building of the Parthenon and the statues of the gods inside this building.
	Museums of Greece
	A site that discusses 100 Greek sculptors

Greek Plays & Players

Literacy & the Greek Alphabet

Ancient Greek Language

Mathematics & Physics

	Eratosthenes was a librarian at Alexandrina, who calculated the circumference of the Earth.
	Greek Mathematicians and their significance to today's world

Astronomy

	Early Greek Astronomy
	Early Maps of the Heavens and schemes of the Universe
	How the Greeks explained how the heavens moved
	Astronomy
	Ancient Greek Astronomy

The Seven wonders of the World

A discussion of the Seven wonders of the Ancient World

Philosophy

Medicine & Hippocrates

	Hippocrates - A Greek physician
	Medicine in Ancient Greece