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http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/4198/rh
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Robin Hood. Excellent site with a beginner's guide, ballads and stories, history, pictures, interviews, bulletin board, links, and more.

http://www.webspan.net/~amunno/rhood.html

Robin Hood site. Good links.

http://funnelweb.utcc.utk.edu/~sclux/marian.htm

Focus on Marion. Having its genesis in a Master's degree thesis project, the site is fascinating and growing.

http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/rh/rhhome.html

The Robin Hood Project site. Texts, images, bibliographies and other information.

http://www.lib.ox.ac.uk/internet/news/faq/archive/books.robin-hood.html

Robin Hood booklist.

http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/acpbibs/bibhome.stm)

The goal of the ARTHURIANA/CAMELOT PROJECT BIBLIOGRAPHIES is to draw on the collective knowledge of the scholarly Arthurian community to provide a series of comprehensive bibliographies covering all aspects of Arthurian studies.

http://dir.yahoo.com/Reference/Libraries/

Great links from here via "literature" link.

http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/Literature/Genres/Young_Adult/

Links to all kinds of great sites incl. e-zines, bibliographies, reading lists, etc.

http://www.teenreads.com/

Place for teens to sound off about what's on their bookshelves. Check in for the latest young adult reads, popular titles, and weekly polls. on-line newsletter by and for teens focused on all types of reading! be sure to click on the "features" button at the bottom of the home page.

http://members.visi.net/~jfelker/

The Hornbook and Beyond - a survey of nonfiction & reference resources for children. For students of library science, teacher and librarians of students in K-8, and anyone else.

http://www.atlanticisland.ie/atlanticisland/arts/flatoz.html

A to Z of Ancient Ireland

http://wwwoi.uchicago.edu/OI/DEPT/RA/ABZU/ABZU.HTML

An excellent guide to Ancient Near East resources, hosted by the Oriental Institute.

http://www.ciolek.com/WWWVL-Aboriginal.html

The World Wide Web Virtual Library for Aboriginal Resources.

http://www.ames.net/aeon/

Aeon:A Journal of Myth and Science devoted to exploring archaeo-astronomical traditions and comparative religions.

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mjw/recipes/ethnic/historical/ant-rom-coll.html

Ancient Roman Recipes. A great site. Explains what Roman food substances not common today were, and how to duplicate them for some of these recipes.

http://wwwdept.usm.edu/~engdept/cinderella/cinderella.html

The Cinderella Project. A text and image archive of a dozen English-language versions of Cinderella published between 1729 and 1912.

http://www.weldwood.demon.co.uk/ancient.htm

An illustrated virtual tour of some of the oldest sacred areas in Britain. There are brief discussions of the remains and associated artifacts.

http://www-lib.haifa.ac.il/www/art/archimedia.html

The object of the Archimedia project is to allow students to understand what ancient buildings looked like and how they were constructed. It does this by displaying numerous views, plans and sections, as well as axonometric and computerized reconstruction of these buildings. The project concentrates on buildings from Ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia and Ancient Greece.

http://www.uky.edu/ArtsSciences/Classics/biblio/children.html

Children and Childhood in the Ancient World. This version of Meir Bar-Ilan's bibliography for the ancient status and lives of children in the ancient world is hosted at Diotima (US).

http://www.nativeweb.org/listing.phtml?indextype=subject&selection=Short%20Stories%20-%20Traditional

Native Peoples Traditional Short Stories. An interesting assortment of information organized by genre (stories, music, poetry, quotes, etc.).

http://www.princeton.edu/~tinalee/

Christina Lee provides a directory of gods and goddesses, linked to short biographies, and a short discussion of women's roles in Greek culture, as evidenced by the roles of goddesses.

http://194.205.34.100/upages/probertm/tocd2.htm

Egyptian Mythology Encyclopaedia. Very brief explanations of who each mythological figure was.

http://www.monetco.com:80/hawaiilibrary/hrldirectory.html?280,74

Gods and Myths of Hawaii. These brief biographies of several of the gods include retellings of major myths, as well as snatches of poetry or song about the god in question.

http://home5.swipnet.se/~w-58907/GGGM-F/GGGM-central.html

Greek Mythology Links A through index, with a variety of sublists. Very useful.

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/KWade/

Ken Wade's Resource Page. Aside from the links for history, archaeology, cosmology and the Bible, this site offers downloadable chronology charts.

http://www.fusl.ac.be/Files/General/BCS/Magie.html

Magic in Late Antiquity. A bibliography dealing with magic, especially how it factored into spiritual beliefs.

http://www.ala.org/yalsa/

Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA).

http://www.sclis.rutgers.edu/special/kay/yalit.html

Kay Vandergrift's YA Literature Web Site. Lengthy essay with links on a number of YA reading concerns and literature including research.

http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/cinderella.html

Variations on the Cinderella Story

http://www.sca.org/

The Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA) is an international organization dedicated to researching and recreating pre-17th century European history. All persons interested in such study are invited to use these pages to obtain information about the SCA.

http://aristotle.sils.umich.edu/teen

Internet Public Library-Teen Division.

http://www-lib.haifa.ac.il/www/art/mythology_westart.html

Mythology in Western Art by Dr. Sonia Klinger of the Department of Art History, University of Haifa.

http://pubpages.unh.edu/~cbsiren/myth.html

Myths, Legends, and Folklore. A veritable treasure trove of sites, from Norse to Native American sites, and across time.

http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~cherryne/mythology.html

Norse Mythology

http://web2.airmail.net/thorvin/nindex.htm

Old Norse Religion

http://history.evansville.net

Creative Impulse: The Artist's View of World History and Western Civilization. Working under the premise that history can not be understood without looking at the art, literature, music, and drama of an era, this site is organized by culture and then by people, places, and events.

http://www.uka ns.edu/history/index/europe/ancient_rome/

RomanSites. The single best place to look for resources dealing with Ancient Rome (and its many provinces) by Bill Thayer.

http://www.demon.co.uk/tourism/jvc/

Jorvik Viking Centre. Jorvik is the Viking town that later became York, England. The museum is at the forefront of a new technology that uses forensic medicine and advanced computer technology to reconstruct facial characteristics from ninth and tenth century faces.

http://ci.berkeley.ca.us:80/bpl/teen

Berkeley (CA) Public Library.

http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/index.html

Children's Literature Web Guide by David Brown.

http://members.aol.com./naughyde/connecting/index.htm

Revisions, updates, and additional links for Patrick Jones' book Connecting Young Adults and Libraries.

http://webcom.com/shownet/medea/bulfinch/welcome.html

Bullfinch's Mythology: an annotated, hyperlinked and illustrated online text of this classic work on Greek mythology.

http://www.pantheon.org/mythica

Encyclopedia Mythica, an online encyclopedia of mythology, folklore, and legend.

http://www.bl.uk/exhibitions/mythical

British Library Exhibitions: Mythical Quest. This exhibit was based on stories depicted in works that refelct the fasicnation over 4,000 years with the search for true love, everlasting glory, and spiritual enlightenment from Babylonian clay tablets to recent computer games.

http://legends.dm.net/

Legends site explores the history, literature and lore surrounding Robin Hood, King Arthur and other heroes of balladry, fiction and film. Provides access to primary source material, up to date scholarship, essays, and reviews. The section on fairy tales provides excellent links.

http://www.jcf.org

The Joseph Campbell Foundation's Web page.

http://www.darkgoddess.com/fairy/

Site by Christine Daae on the origin and evolution of fairy tales. Bookshelf section includes bibliography, essential reading and modern fairy tales, all with links so you can buy them through Amazon Books.

http://tam-lin.org/

Compares the Scottish ballad to other myths and folktales, such as Beauty and the Beast.

http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/Literature/Genres

Go to this Yahoo directory for links to folk and fairy tale sites; mythology and folklore sites; science fiction and fantasy sites (including conventions); and young adult sites.

http://www.mcs.net/~finn/fant/QD-list

Fantasy booklist

http://www.hoh.se/fantasyfinder/index.html

Fantasy Finder. Useful.

http://www.sfwa.org/

Science Fiction Writers of America

http://home.unicom.net/~sfreader/HoF.htm

The Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame
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