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Greek links

[|Oracle at Delphi] (40 second YouTube video)

[|Oracle at Delphi] (17 second YouTube video)

A CNN clip about [|the controversial movie 300] (about the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BCE that followed Marathon in 490 BCE)

Here's an article about [|Greek Democracy] from the BBC.

The political process in Greece was harsh -- starting aorund 500 BCE (we think) someone could get [|ostracized] if enough people -- usually 6000 -- voted to banish them because they were perceived as a threat...

Here's a video about the [|agora] in Athens.

PELOPONNESIAN WAR (431-404 BCE)

Here is a [|map of Athens and Sparta], showing each side's allies.

Here's [|another map], this time showing Lacedaemonia (the land near Sparta).

The [|Long Walls] helped Athens build on its naval advantage.

Here's a [|clearer image of the long walls] (and the South Wall)

GREEK ART

[|18 pieces of art] from the Metropolitan Museum in NYC.

[|Classical Greek Art] from the Met.

[|Some Greek galleries] where you can click on the rooms (also from the MET)

[|A female athlete] from Sparta (from the British Museum).

[|Very cool site of images] from the British Museum.

Statues we think of as classical white marble were actually colored, according to [|this article from Harvard Magazine].

[|Sacred Sites] website (great pictures)

Islam Links

[|NPR slideshow about the Shia-Sunni Split]

A map showing [|Shia-Sunni distribution] in the world today.

Lots of [|additional resources from NPR].

An [|interesting article] that claims that the west mis-reports the Sunni-Shia split. It claims that "Western leaders, who have little knowledge of what drives the Islamic world, would be well advised to acquaint themselves with the history of sectarianism in Islam before making uninformed judgments."

ELECTION/POLITICS LINKS

[|On the issues]