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PERSEUS, An Evolving Digital Library. This is a searchable multimedia program, with vast databases, including texts, history, art and architecture images, an interactive atlas, and much more. Section #10 of its Overview of Archaic and Classical Greek History is a recommended reading for CLAS 4375. Perseus is a required tool for student research.
Diotima: Women & Gender in the Ancient World. Another superb site, with abundant information and links on several ancient cultures.
Morford and Lenardon online: a companion to Mark P.O. Morford & Robert J. Lenardon, Classical Mythology, Longman 1999, ISBN: 0-8013-1138-1
Dictionary of Mythology (Oxford University)
TOPIC 1-- INTRODUCTION
TIMELINE TIMELINE (U of Virginia)
CARTLEDGE,Paul, "The Greeks and Anthropology," CLASSICS IRELAND 1995, vol 2
History of concept of race (Jim Bindon, U of Alabama)
Ethnicity
and myth: basic concepts and vocabulary
TOPIC 2 -- OVERVIEW OF GREEK MYTHS AND RITUALS
The varieties of heroic mythmaking
SOURCES OF MYTH , U. OF VIRGINIA
TOPIC 3 -- THE ORIGIN OF MAN. THE FABRICATION OF WOMAN
Hesiod, Theogony(Perseus)
TOPIC 4 -- PATRIARCHY AND MARRIAGE
RECREATING THE THEATER OF DIONYSOS IN ATHENS [Didaskalia: Ancient Theater Today / University of Warwick]
GREEK STAGECRAFT [Didaskalia: Ancient Theater Today / University of Warwick]
Euripides, Alcestis(Perseus) This is a contemporary translation, by D. Kovacs.
TOPIC 5 -- SEXUALITY IN GREEK MYTH AND HISTORY
