A Guided Web Tour of Homer's Greece: Links

Fragment of writing in the Linear B script

General History

The Prehistoric Archaeology of the Aegean by Jeremy Rutter and Dartmouth University
The Ancient Greek World from the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Sections include Land and Time, Daily Life, Economy, Religion and Death
Overview of Archaic and Classical Greek History by Thomas Martin
Mycenean Age Historical and archaeological overview, with references. From Lake Forest College's Program in Greece and Turkey
Chapters from World Cultures, by Richard Hooker, WSU
- Mycenae Historical and cultural overview
- Mycenaen Religion
- The Greek Dark Ages Historical Overview
Agean Civilization A historical overview from the Naval Postgraduate School's Visualization Lab. See also their The Mycenean Epoch a map of important Greek sites during this period.

Homer by Richard Hooker, Washington State University. Part of his World Cultures online text.
Thunder but no Clouds: the Genesis of the Homeric Text by Richard Janko
Homer and Epic Poetry from the John Bourroughs School Classics Department. Sections: Social-Political Background; The Trojan War: the myth and the archaeological record; and Homer.
Izmir--Birthplace of Homer from Focus Online Magazine

Troy VII and the Historicity of the Trojan War from Prehistoric Archaeology of the Aegean Jeremy Rutter and Dartmouth University
Troy VII and the Historicity of the Trojan War An earlier version of the above link, with a bibliography.
Troy Background, with links to images and plans. From The The Perseus Project.

Mycenae Background, with links to images and plans. From The The Perseus Project.
Photographs of Mycenae from the Naval Postgraduate School's Visualization Project. See also photo of Agamemnon's Tomb.
A Quick Tour of Agamemnon's Citadel at Mycenae from Lake Forest College.

Knossos Background, with links to images and plans. From The The Perseus Project.
A Quick Tour of Minos' Palace at Knossos from Lake Forest College.
Mallia Background, with links to images and plans. From The The Perseus Project.
A Map of Cretan Influence on Greece and Asia Minor from Compton's Encyclopedia

Images from World History: Ancient Mediterranean: Helladic Greece (from c. 2500 to c. 1100 B.C.) collected by Haines Brown. Includes images of and brief background on Pylos, Tiryns, and Mycenae.

Heinrich Schliemann: Heros & Mythos by Wellington King
Homeric Questions, Part I: The Discovery of Troy "based on David A. Traill's Schliemann of Troy: Treasure and Deceit, which in turn was based on twenty years of exhaustive research into the letters, diaries, and documents of and about Heinrich Schliemann." From The Mining Company

Excavating Troy an archaelogical project sponsored by Daimler-Benz. Page supplied by Kagan Agun.

The Odyssey Project An archaeological project founded by Professor Sarantis Symeonoglou to determine the relationship between the ancient remains on the island of Ithaka and the Ithaka detailed in Homer's Odyssey. See especially Summary of the Work.

Liman Teppe from Focus Online Magazine. An archaeological exploration, by Dr.Hayat Erkanat, of a 4000 year-old site in Agean Turkey near Izmir
Excavations in the Izmir region, including Liman Teppe, Bakla Teppe, and Panaztepe from the Izmir Excavations and Research Project (IRERP)