The Greeks - Crucible of Civilization
Introduction to the history, culture, politics, art and warfare with a timeline, map, a look at life in Athens, and ancient language lessons.
The History of Herodotus
The complete text written 440 B.C. as translated by George Rawlinson.
The History of the Peloponnesian War
The complete text as written in 431 B.C.E. by Thucydides, and translated by Richard Crawley.
The Law Code of Gortyn
A code dealing fully with family relations and inheritance, c. 450 B.C.E.
The Spartan War Machine, c. 375 B.C.E.
An account as written by Xenophon, c.428-c.354 B.C.E.
Thucydides: On The Early History of the Hellenes
An excerpt from The History of the Peloponnesian War written c. 395 B.C.E.
Wilhelm von Humboldt's Essays on the Greeks
Read about: The Ideal and Historical view of the Same, History of the Decline and Fall, and Pindar.
Xenophon - Anabasis, or March Up Country
The story of the march to Persia to aid Cyrus, who enlisted Greek help to try and take the throne from Artaxerxes, and the ensuing return of the Greeks between 401 B.C. and March 3…
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