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5.14: Links of Primary Sources

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    Ancient History Sourcebook at Fordham University (collection of materials from all periods of Greek history)

    legacy.fordham.edu/Halsall/an...t/asbook07.asp

    Archimedes’ Inventions

    archimedesjack.weebly.com/discoveries-and inventions.html

    Aristophanes, excerpt from Clouds, making fun of Socrates

    http://www.thenagain.info/Classes/So...nes-Clouds.htm

    Aristophanes, Lysistrata

    drama.eserver.org/plays/class...lysistrata.txt

    Aristotle on Spartan Women

    legacy.fordham.edu/Halsall/an...artanwomen.asp

    Athens, photographic archive of archaeological materials

    http://web.archive.org/web/200406070...oa.org/athens/

    Cyrene, primary sources on founding of the colony

    legacy.fordham.edu/Halsall/an.../630cyrene.asp

    Euripides, The Phoenician Women

    http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~lo...phoenissae.htm

    The Gortyn Code, selections

    legacy.fordham.edu/halsall/a...450-gortyn.asp

    Herodotus, Histories, excerpt on the Battle of Marathon

    http://www.thenagain.info/Classes/So...-Marathon.html

    History of Greek Philosophy

    http://faculty.washington.edu/smcohen/320/index.html

    http://www.uh.edu/~cfreelan/courses/riceanc.html

    Justin, on the beginning of the reign of Philip II of Macedon

    legacy.fordham.edu/Halsall/an...tin-philip.asp

    Linear B Writing

    www.ancientscripts.com/linearb.html

    Plutarch, Lives

    http://classics.mit.edu/Browse/browse-Plutarch.html

    Solon, selected fragments from political poems

    homepage.usask.ca/~jrp638/Dep...sls/Solon.html

    Sophocles, Antigone

    www.stoa.org/diotima/antholog...ntigstruct.htm

    Thucydides, Pericles’ “Funeral Oration”

    legacy.fordham.edu/Halsall/an...eralspeech.asp

    Thucydides, “Melian Dialogue” from the History of the Peloponnesian War

    www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/melian.htm

    Tyrants, primary sources documents

    legacy.fordham.edu/Halsall/a...650tyranny.asp

    Xenophon on the Battle of Leuctra

    legacy.fordham.edu/Halsall/an...371leuctra.asp

    Xenophon on the Spartan Constitution

    legacy.fordham.edu/Halsall/an...no-sparta1.asp


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