Research Guides: *Classical Studies: Additional topics

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Subjects: Art, Architecture and Photography, Classical and Early Mediterranean Studies, Film Studies, Music, Theater and Dance

Women & gender

DIOTIMA: Materials for the Study of Women and Gender in the Ancient World
"Resource for information on women, gender, sex, sexualities, race, ethnicity, class, status, masculinity, enslavement, disability, and the intersections among them in the ancient Mediterranean world."

Mythology

Gods, Demigods and Demons: An Encyclopedia of Greek Mythology (ebook) by Bernard Evslin
Publication Date: 2012-12-04

Greek Mythology Link
Collection of myths retold by Carlos Parada. Contains texts, images, charts and maps.
Bulfinch's Mythology
For over a century and a half, Bulfinch's Mythology has been the text by which the great tales of the gods and goddesses, Greek and Roman antiquity; Scandinavian, Celtic, and Oriental fables and myths; and the age of chivalry have been known.
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Includes: The Age of Fable, or Stories of Gods and Heroes; The Age of Chivalry, or Legends of King Arthur; and Legends of Charlemagne, or Romance of the Middle Ages. Each section has its own search engine.
Classical Myth: The Ancient Sources
Includes images, texts, and a list of attributes. Maintained by the Department of Greek and Roman Studies, University of Victoria.
Encyclopedia Mythica
"Internet encyclopedia on mythology, folklore, and religion."

Ancient art: museum collections

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: Art of the Ancient World
"Home to one of the world’s premiere encyclopedic collections of antiquities, featuring more than 85,000 works of art from Egypt, Nubia, the Near East, Greece, Italy, Cyprus, and Anatolia."
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These works range in date from about 6500 BC to AD 600 and include diverse media—sculpture, jewelry, coffins, mummies, coins, weapons, architecture, vases, carved gems, musical instruments, and mosaics. Special strengths of the collection are Old Kingdom Egyptian art, Nubian art of all periods, Greek vases, Classical coins and gems, and Roman funerary art and imperial portraiture.
Metropolitan Museum (New York): Greek & Roman Art
"The Museum's collection of Greek and Roman art comprises more than thirty thousand works ranging in date from the Neolithic period (ca. 4500 B.C.) to the time of the Roman emperor Constantine's conversion to Christianity in A.D. 312. It includes the art of many cultures and is among the most comprehensive in North America. "
Antiquities at The Getty Villa (Pacific Palisades, California)
The Villa is "home to the J. Paul Getty Museum’s antiquities collection, the two-floor museum displays art that spans the 7,000 years from the end of the Stone Age to the fall of the Roman empire."
Collection of Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities, Louvre Museum (Paris)
"The Department of Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities is home to a collection of artworks representing the Greek, Etruscan, and Roman civilizations; it illustrates the art of a vast area encompassing Greece, Italy, and the whole of the Mediterranean basin, and spans the period from Neolithic times (4th millennium BC) to the 6th century AD."
Collection of Antiquities, Berlin State Museum (Online Collections Database)
"One of the most important collections of ancient Greek and Roman art in the world...its most famous and spectacular showpiece [is] the more than 2000-year-old monumental Pergamon Altar, a masterpiece of Hellenistic art whose boldly expressive sculptural frieze depicts the battle between the gods and the Giants."

3D model of the Pergamon Altar, Berlin State Museum (text in German)

Pergamonmuseum on Google Arts & Culture, including a 3D tour of the Pergamon Altar