Ancient Greek Civilization

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Carvers and Collectors: The Lasting Allure of Ancient Gems (getty.edu/art/exhibitions/gems, accessed
March 29, 2016) is an illuminating multi-media web-site derived from an exhibition at the Getty Museum
concerned with ancient gems, the people who collected them, and the people who forged them.


Mantis (numismatics.org/search/department/Greek, accessed March 29, 2016) is a searchable database
of the 100,000 ancient Greek coins, with digitized images, in the collection of the American Numismatic
Society.


The Panathenaic Games (ancientolympics.arts.kuleuven.be/eng/TB014EN, accessed March 29, 2016),
part of an excellent web-site on the ancient Olympics produced at the University of Leuven, is a detailed,
well illustrated survey of the evidence for the Panathenaic games.


Athenian Vase Painting: Black- and Red-Figure Techniques (metmuseum.org/toah/hd/vase/hd_vase.htm,
accessed March 29, 2016) provides an excellent introduction to the artists and techniques of Attic vase-
painting, illustrated from the vast collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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