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Project on Ancient Cultural Engagement.

by Ed Lacson on Prezi

Janet Stephens, an amateur archaeologist and hairdresser, has been able to recreate one these hairstyles - that of the Roman Vestal Virgins, who were priestesses of Vesta, goddess of the hearth.

Ancient Greek Picture Dictionary - Read online for free. This is a highly first draft of a picture dictionary for ancient Greek. There are lots of features missing, which I do have locally but am not ready to share quite yet. The idea here is that one can create a visual tool for a language that has not traditionally had such tools. The other idea is that this tool can be made using authentic materials (i.e. pictures of locations and cultural artifacts that directly relate to ancient Greece).

Material en YouTube para el aprendizaje del latín. Especial presencia de videos basados en los métodos de Comenius.

Un divertido corto, algo deslenguado y bravucón, pero directo y distinto.

To the ancient Greeks, every mystery in nature could be explained by the whims, passions and peculiarities of the gods. This episode features three favorite nature myths: - The Myth of Persephone, in which Hades, the god of the underworld, abducts the beautiful young Persephone, thereby plunging the earth into a permanent state of icy winter. It takes the great Zeus to negotiate a deal between Hades and Persephone's distraught mother, resulting in the arrival of spring, and the ongoing cycle of seasonal changes. - Echo & Narcissus, in which a talkative nymph loses her heart to the handsome Narcissus, only to discover the young man only has eyes for himself. - Helios, in which a brash young man named Phaethon borrows his father's sun chariot and finds out the hard way that pulling the sun across the sky each day is easier said than done.

Découvrez l'Antiquité grecque de manière ludique en bâtissant une cité et en la faisant évoluer du XIIe siècle au Ier siècle av. J.-C.

"How to destroy ancient literature: 10 000 lines of Latin verse condensed into 97 seconds of bad costumes and cardboard spears. Classicists avoid."

La biblioteca pública de Nueva York ofrece on-line una impresionante base de datos de ilustraciones relacionadas con todo tipo de temas. Para muestra un botón: arquitectura griega. Pero hay más: mitología, escultura, ... Echad un vistazo, merece verdaderamente la pena. NYPL Digital Gallery provides free and open access to over 800,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the vast collections of The New York Public Library, including drawings, illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more.