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- One of the first sites to offer information on the characters and stories of Greek Mythology is this one by John M. Hunt.
- Princeton's Greek Myth HQ by Mark Woon is now Classical Mythology by Geography.
- Professor Ruth Webb, also at Princeton, has a comprehensive site on the characters in Greek mythology for her Classics Course CLA 212 Mythology Home Page.
- Spyros Tyrakis site features The Hellenic Pantheon. While primarily a neo-pagan site, it also contains information about the Greek deities and mythology related links. (Broken Link 2/14/02)
- Brandon's Mythology is an overview of Greek mythology.
- Carlos Parada's Greek Mythology Link provides information about the gods and heroes in brief list form as well as extended entries on the more major deities. It also allows the user to poll entries from his CDrom - Genealogical Guide to Greek Mythology. Another useful feature here is the bibliography of primary sources, indicating which myths they contain. (Now also available en español 2/10/02
- From Myth to Eternity is another Greek myth project. This one gives summaries of information on the greek cosmology and mythological characters as well as providing related images and links to excerpts from classical sources.
- The Pantheon is another Greek myth project that details the stories, the deities, and other characters that appear in Greek mythology. Also part of this site are a search feature and a discussion board.
- Audrey's Le Grenier de Clio provides brief articles on a large number of classical mythological figures, accompanied by a number of images from classical and renaissance art. This site is primarily en Francais, with English and Deutsch translations.
- Hellas On Line provides information on The Ancient Gods of Greece, including brief descriptions and a family tree.
- Here is a brief description of The Myth of Cheiron
- The University of Victoria presents Classical Myth: The Ancient Sources, which collects links to classical images and texts and organizes them by Olympian deity.
- Classical depictions of the most popular pantheon Mythology in Western Art kept by the University of Haifa Library.
- Mythology 101 From the people who bring you "Hercules: The Legendary Journeys". Brief and flip but not inaccurate. (Broken Link 2/14/02)
- Ceres A summary of the Persephone myth as a means of explaining the name of the host machine.
- From an astronomical perspective, here is the Mythology of the Seven Sisters (Pleiades)
- The Eliki site has this Circle of Muses which describes those inspirational beings.
- Heather Blakey's House of the Muse also describes the daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne on this site which is primarily intended as a creative writing center.
- The Ecole Initiative keeps an article by Edward Beach on The Eleusinian Mysteries which honored Demeter and Persephone. (Broken Link 2/14/02)
- Writing in the last half of the eighth century B.C.E. or perhaps the early 7th century B.C.E., Hesiod presents the earliest written works of Greek Mythology. His Theogony describes the creation of the world and the history of the titans and gods. Works and Days focuses more on the acts of man, while containing a synopsis of the myth of Prometheus and Pandora and the myth of the five ages of man.
- Assembled in its present form by the sixth century B.C.E. The Iliad is attributed to Homer and was probably composed around 750 B.C.E. It tells part of the story of the Trojan War.
- The Odyssey also by Homer, here translated by S. Butler, tells of the wanderings of Odysseus following the capture of Troy, on his way home to his family in Ithaka.
General
- The Perseus Project maintains an extensive collection of hypertext annotated classical texts, as well as a new encyclopedia and search engine.
- Another great resource of classical texts is found at the MIT Student Newspaper's site The Tech's Classics Archive.
- Baylor Classics Page (Broken Link 2/14/02)
- sci.classics
