I.  General

• Styles for Theatre and Multimedia Arts -- in Chinese
• World Culture - An internet classroom on world culture.  Strongly recommended!!!
• Reading about the World - A course on world culture.
• Texts and Contexts--This page is a resource center dedicated to the expansion of

knowledge regarding influential texts and authors throughout history. It attempts to provide a
wide range of authors, but clearly not all are covered here.
• Artchive--A good resources for famous art works.
• Web Museum -- Its famous painting collection.
• Fine Arts Link Collection

• Bible Notes - A very good site with summary of the whole Bible and detailed book by book description. Highly recommended!!
• Acts of the Apostles - an interactive journey through the pages of the book of Acts. An interactive map outlining this book adds to the adventure.
• Alpha Net - easy way to read the King James Bible; includes a section on biblical prophecy.
• And Adam Knew Eve: A Dictionary of Sex in the Bible - gathers from the biblical text all sexually related stories, concepts, and laws, and presents them, concisely but with attention to context, in convenient dictionary form.
• Becoming Biblically Literate - resources to help the layman learn the Bible and the essentials of the Christian faith.
• Bible Answers - articles on Bible topics, and a Bible course which will teach you the basic contents of the Bible and how it all fits in together.
• Bible Believer's Helpful Little Handbook - glossary type information of Biblical terms.
• Biblical Arts Center - non-denominational museum utilizing the arts to help people of all faiths more clearly envision the places, events, and people of the Bible.
• The Blue Letter Bible Online Interlinears, commentaries, and more. Highly recommended!!
• Bible Link Collection

 

• Bulfinch's Mythology - A comprehensive site on Greek and Roman mythology based on Bulfinch's book, which is re-presented here as a hypertext..
• A Selected List of Poetry with a Classical Basis - Find poems about your favorite mythical figures here.
• THE OLYMPIAN GODS - An absolutely fabulous site with images of these major gods.  Highly recommended!!
• ENCYCLOPEDIA MYTHICA - Search articles on mythical subjects or figures here.
• Genealogical Guide to Greek Mythology - An impressive sampler of the CD by Carlos Parada. A professional mythologist has developed a wonderful resource. The active links are rotated upon request.  Highly recommended!!
• Myths and Legends - Christopher Siren's huge collection of links. This meta-index is both categorized and regularly updated - a rare combination on the WWW...
• Sources for Mythology - An outstanding single-page resource. Mark Isaak's page includes a definition of myth along with categorized bibliographies and sources.
• Greek Mythology and Heroic Legend - A very impressive mythology resource. Highly recommended! (Encyclopedia Mythica)
• Ancient Greek (Hellenic) Sites- The top 100+ sites divided into four categories: Texts, Art, Maps, and Essential Resources. (Another ShowGate page - updated monthly)
• Greek Mythology Genealogy - Keep following the links and you end up with a family tree. With over 1500 entries so far, this site is a Herculean effort by Peter Hawlina.
• Myth and Legend from Ancient Times to the Space Age - Philip Burns expounds on the meaning of the word myth and provides hundreds of categorized links to mythology and folklore WWW sites.
• Greek Mythology - J.M. Hunt's ongoing project to bring the Greek myths online. This is one of the original Greek mythology sites on the Web and has been mirrored extensively.
• Mythology in Western Art - Descriptions and images of mythological characters (University of Haifa).
• Ovid's Metamorphoses - English verse translation (Virginia Tech gopher site).
• Women in Classical Mythology - Mark Woon provides insightful and in-depth descriptions of Greek goddesses, immortals (female), and women. (Princeton)
• Mythical and Geographical Names Found in the Constellations - The best WWW source I've found on the subject. A valuable resource provided by Richard Dibon-Smith.
• The Storytelling Home Page - Jim Maroon's excellent site dedicated to the oral tradition of storytelling. The site includes a wonderful collection of links for storytellers - and for readers and listeners and browsers.

 

Dante Alighieri on the Web - about his life, times, and works.

Dante's Clickable Inferno - offers Cantos V and XXXIII with notes and translations from Mandelbaum, Pinsky, and Ciardi, along with Dante's Italian. Images and links also available.

Dante's Inferno- includes each canto in Italian, with an English translation.

Boccaccio and Decameron Guide - guide to Internet resources.

Decameron Web - includes the text of the poem in Italian and English, as well as a biography of Boccaccio and a consideration of the Decameron's historical context.  Strongly recommended!!!

Petrarch, Francesco [skidmore.edu] - selections from his correspondence with Boccaccio and other friends, designed to illustrate the beginnings of the Renaissance.

Dr. Jerchower's Petrarchan Grotto - the so far most comprehensive site on Petrarch

Reptile's Petrarch Page - the poet's brief bilgraphy and introduction to the form of sonnet

Cervantes - A database on Miguel de Cervantes, author of Don Quixote.

The Shakespeare Classroom - every thing you want to know about Shakespeare is conveniently here.

 

 IV.  The Baroque

Saint John of the Cross - a rare site about this saint/poet.

JohnDonne (1572-1631) - biography, works, and Web resources for the most popular of the English Metaphysical poets of the 17th century. Strongly recommended!!!

Resource Guide to the Works of John Donne - links and a selection of his works.

Bernini's The Ecstasy of St. Teressa--the famous sculpture of the Baroque period.

 V.  The Seventeenth & Eighteenth Century

• Voltaire Web sites - A list of web sites on Voltaire.
• Voltaire's Page, a nice resource compiled by F. DeVenuto, including links to Barron's Booknotes on Candide, an essay by Clarence Darrow, and a review of the 1933 Hollywood film Voltaire.  Strongly recommended!!!
• A short biographical sketch of Voltaire, presented by Lucidcafe. Strongly recommended!!!
• Voltaire Foundation - department of the University of Oxford specialising in research and publications on the European Enlightenment and on the eighteenth century in general.
• Candide - English translation.
• Philosophy in Early Modern Europe - Francis Bacon, George Berkeley, Rene Descartes, Thomas Hobbes, David Hume, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz, John Locke, Michel de Montaigne, Sir Isaac Newton, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Adam Smith, Voltaire - Hanover College, Hanover, Indiana.  Strongly recommended!!!

VI.  The Nineteenth Century

• Marxism [anu.edu] - Provides pointers to marxist resources on the Internet and includes Web pages of information about marxism, notably a pamphlet on basic marxist politics.
• Theodore Dreiser- Picture and short introduction of the author.
• Romanticism Related Sites - A Very Comprehensive list of related sites of Romanticism.
• TCG's Wordsworth Page - You get other links to this poet from here.
• Sense and Sensibility - Everything you want to know about this film.

Charles Baudelaire- Poems by Baudelaire juxtaposed with pictures.

VII.   The Twentieth Century

• T. S. Eliot - What the Thunder Said, a site devoted to the works and life of T.S. Eliot.
• Aerosmith's Homepage - Everything you want to know about this group.
• Modern Times - International Movie Database entry on this film.
• Charlie Chaplin - A site dedicated to this great film star and Hitchcock.

  

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