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• Maecenas Images of Ancient Greece and Rome
  
  This website has been assisted by grants from the Classical Association of the Empire State and the Classical Association of the Atlantic States. ...
  http://wings.buffalo.edu/AandL/Maecenas/general_contents.html

• The Glory That Was Greece
  
  The Celebration of Women Writers recognizes the contributions of women writers throughout history. Women have written almost every imaginable type of work: novels, poems, letters, biographies, travel books, religious commentaries, histories, economic ...
  http://www.watson.org/~leigh/athens.html

• Electronic Resources for Classicists The Second Generation
  
  The OnLine Survey of AudioVisual Resources for Classics has been produced and maintained by Janice Siegel since 2000. The site has gone through several reincarnations and has most recently been converted into a searchable, relational database housed ...
  http://www.tlg.uci.edu/index/resources.html

• The Law Code of Gortyn
  
  XVII. Adoption may take place whence one will; and the declaration shall be made in the marketplace when the citizens are gathered. If there be no legitimate children, the opted shall received all the property as for legitimates. If there be legitima ...
  http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/450-gortyn.html

• Athenian Rowdies
  
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  http://www.historyhouse.com/in_history/ariston/

• The Archaic Age and the Rise of the Polis
  
  We get interesting glimpses of the turmoil that beset the various citystates in the fragments of the lyric poets Alcaeus and Theognis. For a general introduction to the lyric poets, see next unit. Alcaeus is a poet of the late 7thearly 6th century fr ...
  http://homepage.usask.ca/~jrp638/CourseNotes/Polis.html

• The Spartan War Machine, c. 375 B.C.E
  
  I will now speak of the mode of encampment, sanctioned by the regulation of Lycurgos. To avoid the waste incidental to the angles of the square, the encampment, according to him, should be circular, except where there was the security of a hill or fo ...
  http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/xenophon-spartanwar.html

• The Ephors of Sparta
  
  As for the public messes, the Cretans call them andreia, but the Lacedaemonians phitidia, either because they are conducive to friendship [philia] and friendliness, or because they accustom men to simplicity and thrift, for which their word is pheidô ...
  http://www.csun.edu/~hcfll004/sparephr.html

• Knossos
  
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