Christian Eguaras
Mr. Haskell Per. 4
The first site, , has a bunch of very interesting things that will make the reader of the site much more familiar with the cultures, architecture, and art of Ancient Greece. In the site, there are pictures of the ancient buildings that once stood in Ancient Greece, like the Parthenon, and the Temple of Apollo. It also has information about the things that made the Ancient Greek culture what it was, like the theatre, the stadium, the temple, and the palaces.
The palace at Knossos is very interesting to say the least. There are many pictures of how it stands today, even though the engravings on the walls and the paintings have been repainted to show the pictures with the greatest amount of detail. In the Greek art section, there is a sculpture of a charioteer, which is very important to the Greeks because it shows the passage from archaic conventions to the classical ideals. There is also a map that shows the land of Ancient Greece and all of the city-states that occupied it at that time. Another unbelievable fact is that the Parthenon in the Acropolis was build at the cost of 469 silver talents, which is an incredible sum of money if it was to be put in today’s currency, and it would be almost impossible to recreate the ancient building.
Ancient Greece, 9/26/05
I like this site, because it has a lot of interesting things about Ancient Rome. Not only does it have a lot of information, it is divided in to easy to navigate sections so that each section is restricted to one part of the culture, religion, society, education, etc. The site is very easy to navigate through; you will not find yourself getting lost to find a page on Religion in early Rome. The site also has links to other resources that can be viewed, which can be a good way of using more than one site, for example to do a report requiring more than one source. There is also a picture showing Rome’s great expanse of conquered lands, extending from today’s Great Britain to Spain to Israel.
The site elaborates on almost every aspect of the culture and the society. There are also pictures of the coins the Ancient Romans used in that time. There is also information about the social classes and there are special ways of having weddings in that time period. In the Religion section, readers can see that the Roman gods are very similar to the gods of the Ancient Greeks. There is Jupiter, the leader of all the Roman gods, who is the Roman counter-part of Zeus, the leader of all the Greek gods.
Ancient Rome, 9/26/05
This site, is very similar to the site above, but it is obviously about Ancient Greece, instead of Ancient Rome. In this site, the reader can find out much more about Ancient Greece than just by reading in a textbook. This site elaborates on the conquests of Alexander the Great, as well as Athens’ road to being one of the wealthiest city-states in Greece. It also has information on the origins of the Greeks, starting with the migration of the Greeks into the Greek peninsula in the 3rd millennium B.C. It also has links to other aspects of the Greek culture, such as some famous Greek philosophers like Plato, Aristotle, Herodotus, and Thucydides.
This site gives information about the Persian Wars, the Peloponnesian War, as well as the dominance of Athens as a wealthy city-state. After the Peloponnesian War, the site shows how Sparta and Thebes began to take control of Greece, and it shows the decline of Athens after the war as well. After this section, the Rise of Macedon takes place, with Philip at the center control of it all. Then there are the conquests of Alexander the Great. The site elaborates on the extent of Alexander’s conquered lands and his legacy afterwards.