Ancient+Greece

These are some photos from museums that Miss Hill visited on her trip to Russia and Germany in 2012. Pergamon was a city in Ancient Greece but now it is part of Turkey. See the map at Wikipedia.
 * These are from the Pergamon Museum in Berlin.**










 * The vase on the right and all the other photos are from the Hermitage museum in St Petersburg in Russia.**







See what else you can find out about Ancient Greece and why it was so important at
 * Mandy Barrow's website about Ancient Greece for Kids.
 * [|BBC Primary History - Ancient Greece]
 * [|British Museum - Ancient Greece]

Also check out modern retellings of Greek myths at [|ABC Storytime]
 * the story of Eurydice and Orpheus who visits Hades to try to get her back after she dies: [|Orpheus and the Underworld]
 * the story of Perseus's quest to ransom his kidnapped mother with the head of the gorgon Medusa, who could turn him to stone just by looking at her: [|Perseus and Medusa]
 * how the Greeks explained the seasons: [|Demeter and Persephone]
 * [|Apollo and his Oracle]