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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: The Alphabet Is Historic

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Great lesson plans for grades K-2 on the history of the alphabet. Includes guiding question, objectives, and four lessons with activities and assessments. With links to various websites containing information on alphabet history.
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Islami City

Islamic History: Arabic Numerals

For Students 9th - 10th
Considers the origin of our "Arabic," system of number notation as probably having originated in India. Has illustrations demonstrating how much less cumbersome this system is than Roman, Egyptian, or Greek numeration.
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Handout
Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Tragedy

For Students 9th - 10th
This encyclopedia entry from Wikipedia about tragedies discusses its Greek origins; the typical characteristics of a tragedy; and lists some examples of ancient Greek, Roman, English, and modern-day writers of tragedies.
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Website
Other

Hera: The Most Beautiful Goddess

For Students 9th - 10th
All the mentions of Hera in The Iliad and The Odyssey are listed here. (Roman name: Juno.)
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Other

Hermes: Herald of the Immortals

For Students 9th - 10th
The Olympians depended on Hermes (Roman name "Mercury") to bring them all sorts of news. Learn about his role at this site, which includes a listing of all the times Hermes is mentioned in the Iliad and the Odyssey.
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Website
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Winged Sandals: Athena

For Students 3rd - 8th
A one-page collection of essential facts about Athena, the Greek goddess of wisdom. Includes the name of her Roman equivalent, her family tree, key events in her life, and an audio pronunciation of her name.
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Website
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Winged Sandals: Hera

For Students 3rd - 8th
A one-page collection of essential facts about Hera, the jealous wife of Zeus and the goddess of marriage and childbirth. Includes the name of her Roman equivalent, her family tree, key events in her life, and an audio pronunciation of...
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Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Accubatio

For Students 9th - 10th
The act of reclining at meals. The Greeks and Romans were accustomed, in later times, to recline at their meals; but this practice could not have been od great antiquity in Greece, since Homer always describes persons as sitting at their...
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Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Acinaces

For Students 9th - 10th
A Persian sword, whence Horace speaks of the Medus acinaces. The acinaces was a short and straight weapon; and thus differed from the Roman sica, which was curved. It was worn on the right side of the body, whereas the Greeks and Romans...
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Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Cameo

For Students 9th - 10th
Cameo, a term applied to gems of different colors sculptured in relief. The art of engraving on gems boasts of high antiquity, having been practised with various degrees of success by the Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Latin the Language of the Solar System

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson students will learn the history of the solar system and how it is associated with the Roman and Greek Gods.
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Activity
Other

The History of Writing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This explanation of the history of writing traces writing from the use of "Counting tokens," to the development of the Roman alphabet. The pictures of how writing has progressed over time is very interesting and helpful.
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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Marble Statue of the Emperor Hadrian

For Students 9th - 10th
The Roman emperor Hadrian is shown here in the himation (a Greek mantle). This unique and well known statue is made up of fragments found in 1861 in the ruins of a temple in the city of Cyrene, in northern Africa.
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Handout
World History Encyclopedia

World History Encyclopedia: Agora

For Students 9th - 10th
Description with illustrations offers brief history of the Agora in ancient Greece.
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Curated OER

Greek Mythology Link: Hera

For Students 9th - 10th
Picture of Greek goddess, Hera.
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eBook
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Internet Classics Archive: The Persians by Aeschylus

For Students 9th - 10th
This MIT Internet Classics Archives page is a translation of "The Persians" in an easy-to-read format, maintaining the verse format of the original.
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Handout
CommonLit

Common Lit: Text Sets: Mythology

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a collection of 18 Grade-Leveled texts (6-12) on the topic of Mythology. From prehistory to the present, mythology has played an essential role in how humans interact with and understand the world around them. Explore a world of...
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Website
Princeton University

Princeton University: The Art Museum

For Students 9th - 10th
The Art Museum at Princeton University has a permanent collection ranging over time from ancient to contemporary and from the Mediterranean to Western Europe, China, Latin America and the U.S. Greek and Roman antiquities and Roman...
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Website
National Institutes of Health

National Library of Medicine: Medieval Islamic Medicine

For Students 9th - 10th
A discussion of how Islamic medicine was influenced not only by Greeks and Romans, but also by the restrictions of the Islamic religion.
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Handout
ArtLex

Art Lex: Hellenistic Art Period

For Students 9th - 10th
Artlex.com defines and describes the Hellenistic period in Western art. Features include links to illustrated examples, artists, and related terms.
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Article
Other

The Stoa Consortium: The Library of Hadrian

For Students 9th - 10th
The Library of Hadrian is located on the north side of the Acropolis, immediately north of the Roman Agora. The complex was built by the Roman emperor Hadrian in 131/2 A.D. It was visited by Pausanias (1.18.9) who provides a brief...
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Other

Theatron: The Theater of Dionysus

For Students 9th - 10th
Information and recreated models of the Theater of Dionysus, showing its architectural evolution and transformation over time, from the fifth century B.C. through the Roman imperial period.
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Other

Zeus: The Olympian

For Students 9th - 10th
This essay tells the story of Zeus (Roman name "Jupiter"), who was hidden from his father at birth, and how he came to rule all the other gods and the whole earth. Includes citations to the mentions of Zeus in The Iliad and The Odyssey.
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Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Bracae

For Students 9th - 10th
Trowsers, pantaloons, were common to all the nations which encircled the Greek and Roman population, extending from the Indian to the Atlantic ocean, but were not worn by the Greeks and Romans themselves. Accordingly the monuments...