9.189 WWW page for classics at USask

Humanist (mccarty@phoenix.Princeton.EDU)
Wed, 27 Sep 1995 18:44:00 -0400 (EDT)

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 9, No. 189.
Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities (Princeton/Rutgers)
http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist

[1] From: Ann DeVito <devito@cs.usask.ca> (50)
Subject: Classics at U of Saskatchewan WWW page

The WWW page for the Department of Classics at the University of
Saskatchewan has moved to a new address:

http://www.usask.ca/classics/

The web pages describe Classics at the University of Saskatchewan and
feature a select list of pointers to Classics resources elsewhere on the
Internet.

We have recently expanded the material presented to include the
following:

Lectures and Background Material on:

The Mythological Background of Homer's Iliad
Plot Outline for Homer's Iliad and List of Principal Characters
The Iliad and the Greek Bronze Age
The Iliad as Oral Formulaic Poetry
Homeric Society
The Homeric Gods
The Archaic Age and the Rise of the Polis
The Greek Lyric Poets
The Rise of Athens and the Athenian Democracy:
From Solon to Cleisthenes
Herodotus
Outline of Herodotus, The Histories, Books 1, 6.48ff.,
7, and 8
Greek Tragedy and the Ancient Stage
Glossary of Terms Associated with the Greek Stage
Introduction to Aeschylus' Persians
Sophocles' Oedipus
[Presocratics, Ethnographers, Sophists: The Greek
Englightenment]
Euripides' Hippolytus
Thucydides
Aristophanes and Greek Old Comedy
[The Problem of the Historical Socrates]
Aristophanes' Clouds
Guide to Reading Euthyphro, Apology, and Crito

Translations of Ancient Texts by members of the Department
of Classics:

The Homeric Hymn to Dionysus
Selections from the Greek Lyric Poets
Selections from the Fragments of Archilochus
Solon: Select Fragments
Selections from Plutarch's Life of Solon
Selections from Theognis
Aeschylus, The Persians
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, Book 3.82-83

Further material will be added in the coming weeks as
time permits.

Comments and suggestions are welcome. Please address them
to John Porter of the Department of Classics at the
University of Saskatchewan (porterj@duke.usask.ca) or to
Ann DeVito of the Department of Computer Science at the
University of Saskatchewan (devito@cs.usask.ca).