Who is Achilles? Greek mythology
Achilles, on a Greek black-figure vase from around 530 BC. Is it on purpose that Achilles' heel is showing? Who were Achilles' parents? Achilles was a great warrior in ancient [...]
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Who is Aphrodite? Greek goddess
Birth of the goddess Aphrodite (from Pompeii, about 50 AD) The goddess of love Aphrodite (a-fro-DIE-tee) was the Greek goddess of love. So naturally she was always falling in love [...]
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Homer’s Iliad – Summary
Homer's Iliad: Achilles, on a Greek black-figure vase from around 530 BC What is the story of the Iliad? "Sing, Goddess, of the anger of Achilles..." The story of Homer's [...]
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Athena in Homer’s Odyssey
Athena in the Odyssey: Odysseus and Athena, on a red-figure vase Athena in the Odyssey In the Iliad and the Odyssey, Athena was on the side of the Greeks, because [...]
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Mycenaeans – Late Bronze Age Greece
Mycenaeans: Two women and a child (Mycenae, ca. 1500 BC) Mycenaeans By around 1600 BC, the Greeks had gotten completely mixed with the earlier Lerna people, and began to move [...]
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Reading a Greek play – Ancient Greece project
Greek theater at Epidauros - Reading a Greek play How did Greek plays get started? One great activity to understand ancient Greece better is to stage a scene from a [...]
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Making a gold bowl – Ancient Greece project
Trojan gold bowl, made by 6th graders at Laurelhurst School, Portland About 1250 BC, the Greek army fought their neighbors the Trojans in the Trojan War. Troy was across the [...]
