GREECE:  Images, Maps, Travel Information, News, History, Culture

Contents:

NEWS

• Athens News (English-language daily) online
• Greek News (large menu from Ariadne) (see also Hellas site, below)

MEGA-SITES: GATEWAYS TO COUNTLESS WEB RESOURCES

• **ARIADNE:  Catalogue of Greek Net Resources
• ARIADNE:  Catalogue of Worldwide Hellenic WWW Resources
• Center for Hellenic Studies at Temple U.--contains many links
• GoGreece: An Internet Guide to Greece
• The Greek Connection: especially communities & online catalogs
• Greek Culture, a large directory, from Drew University, of sites
• **HELLAS Home Page (U.S. site); Hellas (same, in Greece; slower)
• The Hellenic Ministry of Culture: museums, sites, etc.
• Virtual Greece
• Yahoo: The Greece Directory (800+ links)

TRAVEL AND TOURIST SITES (other)

• Aegean (U.S. mirror site); Aegean Web Server (in Greece)
• AreiaNet: tourist info. including Greek National Tourist Org.
• Athens Survival Guide
• city.net: Greece
• Gradus Tourist Guide of Greece
• Greek Homepage by K. & V. Mackie (many photos etc.)
• Hotel & Travel Index Online for Greece
• Peloponnese: A Virtual Journey through Morea
• Tour to Greece! from Democritus University of Thrace
• The Tourist Guide of Greece: includes Greek National Tourist Organization (EOT) pages: museum hours & other useful info.
• My Favorite Hotel on Mykonos

NUTS & BOLTS

• Airport (OLD): How to get to and from Athens Airports.*CAUTION:  THIS IS STILL THE OLD AIRPORT!
• MAPS:
• Maps of Greece (the Yahoo list)
• Road-Maps of Greece
• Money:
• ATMS in Greece
• Currency exchange rates
• Currency converter
• Museum hours from GNTO
• Webcafes in Greece:  be digital!

TRAVEL LITERATURE

• Pausanias' Description of Greece (full hyperlinked text of this 2nd century classic!)
• Travels in Northern Greece by W.M. Leake (1805-6 travel classic): with images; lots about Delphi etc.

GREEK LANGUAGE

• Learn Modern Greek through the Internet; another address for the same lessons
• Learn Greek on the Internet!
• Greek for Travelers
• Greek-English and English-Greek Dictionaries on the WWW
• The Greek Language by Richard Watts

HISTORY: BYZANTINE AND ORTHODOX

• ROMIOSINI: HELLENISM IN THE MIDDLE AGES
• BYZANTIUM: Byzantine Studies on the Internet
•  Medieval Sourcebook: Byzantium
• About the Greek Orthodox religion
• The Fall of Constantinople, 1453

HISTORY and culture: MODERN GREECE

• The Greek Revolution and the Greek State (lecture by Steven W. Sowards, 1996)
• Greek Nationalism, the "Megale Idea" and Venizelism to 1923 (S.W. Sowards)
• Greek Dance and Music

JOURNAL OF MODERN GREEK STUDIES (full text for subscribers, samples for others) (Drew subscribes)

GREEK LITERATURE ("modern")

• CAVAFY, Constantine (1863-1933):
• Cavafy page with poems in Greek and English
• Cavafy Index of poems online
• Cavafy poems
• Cavafy poems translated by M. Kolaitis
• ELYTIS (1911-1996; Nobel Prize 1979):  Odysseas Elytis World Wide Web Pages
• SEFERIS, George (1900-1971; Nobel Prize 1963):
• "Mycenae"

John R. Lenz, Dept. of Classics, Drew University, Madison, NJ, USA;