Visit a Museum
The University of Pennsylvania has a great (and very useful) exhibition. The Ancient Greek World. It is divided into five parts: Daily Life, Land and Time, Economy, Religion and Death, and extra topics. Each of these sections is further subdivided for your convience.
The National Archaeological Museum of Athens provides a very comprehensive set of images from its unparalleled collection as does the Acropolis Museum. as does the Athens Agora Museum.
A must see stop for any tour is the Delphi Museum.
Highlights of the artifacts recovered from the site of Olympia can be viewed at the Olympia Museum.
The Heraklion Archaeological Museum has an excellent collection of Bronze age finds from the island of Crete. A must visit for students of the Minoan culture.
An excellent guide to the museums that Greece has to offer can be found at Greece Museums.
The British Museum has an unparalled collection of artifacts from the beginning of the Bronze age. The museum also hosts a wonderful site on Ancient Greece that introduces students to Greek culture.
The Perseus Project mounted by Tufts University (near Boston) has organized a tremendous amount of Ancient Greek material. Part of their work brings together lots of pictures of Greek artifacts from many museums around the world. Two good things to look at are COINS and VASES. The Perseus Project people let you search in a lot different categories, including animals, athletics and historical people. Once you have chosen a category you just have to keep clicking until you get a picture … with their stories and some pictures. They even let you search by vase shapes. Try clicking on “select another kind of search” if you want to search vases by period or region. Don’t bother to click on “collection” because it just shows you who owns the vases today.
Thomas Martin’s Overview of Archaic and Classical Greek History provides an excellent guide to the resources available in the Perseus project.
The new On-line Survey of Audio-Visual Resources for Classics” is provided as a service to teachers and students of Classics everywhere! Find the item you want and with a click of a mouse arrive at the distributor’s on-line catalog page, where you can often preview it, hear it, see screenshots of it, read reviews of it, and order it right on-line!”
The Ancient Olympic Games Virtual Museum is great! You get to “walk” around and find out all about athletics in Ancient Greece — even the rules of the games! Information about the site of Olympia and the Olympic games, both ancient and modern can also be found at Olympics through Time and at Olympia and the Olympic Games. Courtesy of the Perseus project, you can also take a tour of the site of Olympia, as well as learn all about the games at Welcome to the tour of Olympia! Find out the Real story of The Ancient Olympic Games courtesy of the University of Pennsylvania Museum.
The Greek Age of Bronze 1600 – 1100 B.C. provides a an illustrated introduction to the arms and armour of the Homeric age.
Reconstructing the Warriors of the Bronze Age shows the would be Homeric warrior how to arm themselves for combat beneath the walls of Troy.
Hoplite Armour discusses not only how Greek armour was constructed but has photographs of reconstructed pieces of hoplite armour.
As does Matthew Amt’s Greek Hoplite Page.
See also Ancient Greek Armour, Shields and Helmets as it provides a very useful and well illustrated introduction to the subject.
Hoplite Arms and Tactics provides a concise and well illustrated overview of Greek warriors between the 8th to 4th centuries BC.
The Ancient Greeks provides information about Greek Hoplites as well as showing reenactors armed as hoplites.
A Short Guide to Greek Short swords gives a comprehensive overview of this often neglected aspect of Greek warfare.
Greek Helmets offers an excellent overview of the topic.
As does Classical Greek Shield Patterns provides an encyclopedic survey of the designs used by Greek warriors on their shields.
Lastly with respect to the study of Greek warfare we should not ignore The Diet of Greek soldiers from the classical age to Hellenism.
