Brigidine College

Library Pathfinder

 

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Ancient History

Year  12

 

 

 

Book Resources

 

Some good titles:

The complete idiot’s guide to philosophy              100STE
The great philosophers                                               109.2 GRE
One hundred philosopher                                             109.2 KIN

Philosophy: 100 essential thinkers                      109.2 STO

Philosophers                                                   180 MAD

Story of Philosophy                                          190 MAG
Philosophy                                                               190 STA
Socrates and Athens                                                 938 PAR

Ancient Egypt                                                 932

Ancient Greece  (general)                                           938

 

 

Online Databases

Online Encyclopaedia: Britannica Online.

The Britannica is an excellent source for information providing a
foundation for your knowledge. The Britannica also has magazine
and journal articles sourced from such publications as “History Today”.
No password is required if access within the College.

 

Electric Library will give you access to full text magazine articles.
You will need a password so ask the Library Staff or help yourself
to a brochure at the front desk.

 

 

World Wide Web

 

Philosophers

 

The internet encyclopedia of philosophy

http://www.utm.edu/research/iep

 

History of western philosophy

http://www.philosophypages.com/hy/index.htm

Greek philosophy

http://www.thebigview.com/greeks/index.html

Greek philosophy. Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_philosophy

 

Greek philosophy
http://www.wsu.edu:8000/~dee/GREECE/GREECE.HTM


Socrates

http://www.philosophypages.com/ph/socr.htm

 

A timeline of Western Philosophers
http://www.philosophypages.com/dy/zt.htm

 

Confucius

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/confucius

Confucius
http://www.comparative-religion.com/confucianism




General Personalities

Egyptians

 

The History of Ancient Egypt
Significant  People
http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/prehistory/egypt/history/people.html

 

Ancient History Egyptians : Hatshepsut
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/egyptians/hatshepsut_01.shtml

Hatshepsut female Pharaoh of Egypt

http://www.touregypt.net/historicalessays/hatshepsut.htm

Maat-ka-ra Hatshepsut

http://www.maat-ka-ra.de/english/start_e.htm

 

Cleopatra of Egypt. From History to Myth
http://www.fieldmuseum.org/cleopatra/cleopatra.html

 

Hatshepsut. Ancient Egypt
http://members.aol.com/TeacherNet/AncientEgypt.html#Hatshepsut


Akhenaten
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/egyptians/akhenaten_01.shtml

 

Akhenaten
http://www.akhet.co.uk/amarna/akhena10.htm


Amenhotep IV (Akhenaton)
http://www.touregypt.net/18dyn10.htm

Ramesses the Great

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/egyptians/ramesses_01.shtml

 

Rameses II
http://www.eyelid.co.uk/k-q4.htm


 

Greeks

 

Socrates

http://www.philosophypages.com/ph/socr.htm

Alexander the Great

http://www.wsu.edu:8000/~dee/GREECE/GREECE.HTM

 

Alexander the Great
http://members.aol.com/TeacherNet/AncientEgypt.html#Alexander

 

The life and successes of Alexander the Great. Middle school level but a good place to start
http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/articles/worldhistory/alexanderthegreatsuccess1.htm

 

Philip of Macedonia
http://www.wsu.edu:8000/~dee/GREECE/GREECE.HTM

Erastosthenes of Alexandria
http://members.aol.com/TeacherNet/AncientEgypt.html#Eratosthenes


 

Others

 

 

Joan of Arc Archive

http://archive.joan-of-arc.org/index.html

 

 

 

 

General Ancient History

 

An overview of Classical History
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0009&query=toc

 

 

Directory of Classic Literature
Here you can find a selection of Ancient Greece's most precious pieces
of literature, philosophy and history

http://www.greektexts.com


The Greeks. Crucible of civilisation

http://www.pbs.org/empires/thegreeks/htmlver/index.html


Ancient Greeks
http://www.wsu.edu:8000/~dee/GREECE/GREECE.HTM

Ancient Egypt
http://members.aol.com/TeacherNet/AncientEgypt.html#Hatshepsut