Sloan Publishing - Chapter 10

Source Analysis

Website 10.1: The Acropolis
An interactive web site with a plan of the Acropolis; identifies the buildings, including the older temples replaced in the Periclean program.
http://www.ancient-greece.org/images/maps/plans/acropolis-plan.swf

Website 10.2: The Parthenon Frieze
This excellent web site is the English language version of the Greek Ministry of Culture site, which allows you to move through the entire frieze, with useful comments as you go (be sure to click on the little British flag at the right top of the page if you happen upon a Greek language version of the site).
http://www.ekt.gr/parthenonfrieze/index.jsp?lang=en

For an alternative interpretationo of the Parthenon frieze, see:
http://academic.reed.edu/humanities/110Tech/ParthenonFriezeConnelly.html

Website 10.3: Compare the Apadana Frieze to the Parthanon Frieze
Study the Greek Ministry of Culture web site for the Parthenon frieze suggested above:
http://www.ekt.gr/parthenonfrieze/index.jsp?lang-en

Then consider this site on the Apadana frieze, which is sponsored by the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago; look at a number of the pictures of the procession and compare them with the procession portrayed on the Parthenon frieze:
http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/MUS/PA/IRAN/PAAI/PAAI_Apadana.html

Do you agree with the suggestion that the theme and message of the Parthenon frieze were borrowed from, or at least influenced by, the Apadana reliefs? Why, or why not?

Website 10.4: The Trireme
While there are many websites about the trireme, this undergraduate thesis from the University of Leicester in Great Britain by Rosemary Peck (2001): Athenian Naval Finance in the Classical Period: The Triarchy, its Place in Athenian Society, and How Much DId a Trieres Cost? pfovieds extensive, easily accessed information:
http://www-atm.physics.ox.ac.uk/rowing/trireme/thesis.html

For a recent reconstruction of a trireme, see
http://www.atm.ox.ac.uk/rowing/trireme/IMG_3246.jpg

On the Web
Three useful web sites on the workings of the Athenian democracy:
DEMOS, with articles and sources:
http://www.stoa.org/projects/demos/home?greekEncoding=unicodeC

A good website on the Greek theater:
http://www.cnr.edu/home/bmcmanus/tragedy_theater.html

An account of democracy and an account of the ancient critics of democracy by a noted Greek historian, Paul Cartledge:
http://bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/greeks/greekdemocracy_05.shtml
http://bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/greeks/greekcritics_02.shtml

Maps:
Map 10: Greece before the Peloponnesian War and the Athenian Empire (page 216)
Blank Map 10 (page 387)