Classics

Egyptian Antiquity, Latin, Greek and Geometry Will Be Found Here

• The Ashmolean Museum: this excellent Oxford museum is better than the British Museum for the intelligent visitor, since it has not yet become a theme park for children.
• The Shefton Museum: don't miss this fine small museum if you are in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. It is west of Haymarket station on the Metro, at the University. The terracotta gorgon's head above is from Sicily, 550-500 BC, by kind permission of Newcastle University Department of Classics and the Shefton Museum. Click on it for Gorgon lore.

• The Egyptian Alphabet
• Lore of the Obelisk
• Lore of the Pyramid
• Tim Spalding's Hieroglyphs: an excellent site with something for everyone
• Egyptology is an attractive site
• Egyptian Lighting: making an Egyptian lamp

A maxim in Greek: (a-ay poo hupo poo) -- always wear underwear. Suggested by semper ubi sub ubi.

• a pun from Herodotus
• The Greek Alphabet
• The Story of Pharaoh Ahmose II (Herodotus)
• Herodotus II.62: an animated translation of the chapter dealing with Egyptian lighting
• Learning for Profit (Greek Only)

• The Latin Alphabet
• Latin for Mountain Men: a course in Latin for reading short things [REVISED]
• An Explanation of Roman Dates

• Greek for Euclid: a course in Greek and Geometry. Read Euclid in the original Greek.
• Pleasures of Mathematics: understanding, not facts, are what fascinates. Example: why are there only five regular convex polyhedra?
• Ptolemy's Theorem: geometrical method for finding sin (α + β).
• Aristarchus of Samos: the heliocentric universe was known in antiquity.
• M. Vitruvius Pollio and the Analemma: he used descriptive geometry.