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Museums & Collections
Explore the treasures of the ancient world in the great museums, many with superb online collections.
- The British Museum: Ancient Greece and RomeExplore one of the world’s great collections online, including the Parthenon sculptures, the Portland Vase, coins, painted pottery and bronzes.Visit britishmuseum.org (opens in a new tab)
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Greek and Roman ArtThousands of years of sculpture, painted vases, jewellery and bronzes, with high-resolution images free to browse.Visit metmuseum.org (opens in a new tab)
- National Archaeological Museum, AthensGreece’s largest archaeological museum, home of the Antikythera mechanism, the Mask of Agamemnon and the great bronze from Cape Artemision.Visit namuseum.gr (opens in a new tab)
- The Acropolis MuseumThe modern museum at the foot of the Acropolis, whose top-floor gallery shows the Parthenon’s surviving sculptures as they were arranged on the temple.Visit theacropolismuseum.gr (opens in a new tab)
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Academic & Reference
Trusted libraries and encyclopedias for ancient texts, translations and scholarship.
- Perseus Digital LibraryThe gold standard for ancient texts online, with free Greek and Latin originals, translations, dictionaries and word-by-word reading tools.Visit perseus.tufts.edu (opens in a new tab)
- World History EncyclopediaA free, peer-reviewed encyclopedia written by historians, with excellent articles, maps and timelines on Ancient Greece.Visit worldhistory.org (opens in a new tab)
- Stanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyAuthoritative, free entries on Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, the early Greek thinkers and every school of ancient philosophy.Visit plato.stanford.edu (opens in a new tab)
- JSTORMillions of scholarly articles and books. Some are open access, and a free account lets you read a limited number of articles each month.Visit jstor.org (opens in a new tab)
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Learning & Courses
Free and paid courses taught by leading historians and classicists.
- Yale Open Courses: Introduction to Ancient Greek HistoryProfessor Donald Kagan’s complete lecture course, free to watch, from the Bronze Age to the death of Socrates.Visit oyc.yale.edu (opens in a new tab)
- Coursera: Greek and Roman MythologyA popular University of Pennsylvania course built around close reading of the ancient sources, ideal for beginners.Visit coursera.org (opens in a new tab)
- The Great CoursesIn-depth video lecture series by leading academics on mythology, the Persian Wars, Alexander the Great and much more.Visit thegreatcourses.com (opens in a new tab)
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Podcasts & Media
Listen and learn on the go with these excellent shows about history and myth.
- The History of Ancient Greece PodcastRyan Stitt’s detailed, chronological series, covering the Greek world from the Bronze Age to the Hellenistic era across well over a hundred episodes.Visit thehistoryofancientgreece.com (opens in a new tab)
- Myths and Legends PodcastLively retellings of myths and folklore from around the world, including many Greek favourites, told in the language of the present.Visit mythpodcast.com (opens in a new tab)
- BBC In Our TimeMelvyn Bragg and leading scholars discuss a single subject in each episode, with a rich free archive on Greek history, philosophy and literature.Visit bbc.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
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