CLASSICS 219: THE ROMAN EMPIRE
Classical Resources on the Web

Art and Architecture | Firestone Library Resources | History | Megasite and Gateways | Monographs | Texts

Art and Architecture

• AICT (Art Images for College Teaching)
• Archeologhia (Photos of everything)
• RomanSites
• Architecture of Rome, Italy - Great Buildings Online
• Augustus: Images of Power (Roman Art & synopsis of Paul Zanker)
• Maecenas: Images of Ancient Greece and Rome
• Numismatic Collection of Princeton University
• The Virtual Catalogue of Roman Coins
• Pompeii Forum Project
• Ostia -- The Harbour of Ancient Rome (Amazing)
• Ostia Graffiti Exhibition
• Ostia Inscriptions -- photos & text
• The Absolute Beginner's Guide to Greek and Latin Epigraphy (The best and almost the only site, and worth checking out even if you don't have any Greek or Latin)
• Forma Urbis Romae
• Rome and the Nolli Map of 1748 (Princeton University only: Art 320)

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Firestone Library Electronic Resources for Classicists:

• Classics Pages
• Oxford Classical Dictionary, 3rd Edition
• Oxford Reference Online: Howatson & Chilver, The Concise Oxford Companion to Classical Literature (1993, 2002), and Hornblower, S. & Spawforth, A., Who's Who in the Classical World (2000), both searchable full-text.
• Check Jake, the database that locates where in our many databases a journal has been indexed and if the full-text is available.

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History

• Brief Chronology of Roman History
• The Roman Kalendar
• Classical Atlas Project (Maps)
• De Imperatoribus Romanis (Highly recommended - brief excellent essays on the Roman emperors inter alia)
• Julio-Claudian Family Tree (Simplified)
• I, Claudius
• Diotima (Women in the ancient world)
• The Roman Law Project (Res ipsa loquitur)
• The Roman Law Library (Outstanding resource)
• Antiqua Medicina: From Homer to Vesalius (An on-line exhibition prepared in conjunction with the Colloquium "Antiqua Medicina: Aspects in Ancient Medicine" at the Health System of the University of Virginia)
• The Surgery of Ancient Rome (A Display of Surgical Instruments from Antiquity (Historical Collections and Services of the Health Sciences Library, University of Virginia)

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Megasites & Gateways

• Classics and Mediterranean Archaeology Server
• Electronic Resources for Classicists: The Second Generation
• Lacus Curtius (William Thayer, The University of Kansas - excellent)
• Links Page at VRoma.org (Excellent well-organized point of departure for just about any aspect of the Classical world)
• The Rome Project (The Dalton School, NYC)
• ROMARCH: Roman Art and Archaeology

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Monographs Available on the Web

• Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities A selection from: William Smith, D.C.L., LL.D.: A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, John Murray, London (1875)
• Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities Harry Thurston Peck (1898)
• A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome S B Platner & T Ashby, Oxford University Press (1929)
• Pagan and Christian Rome Rodolpho Lanciani, Houghton Mifflin & Company (1892)
• The Princeton Encylcopedia of Classical Sites R Stillwell, W L MacDonald, & M H McAllister eds., Princeton University Press (1976)

Texts:

• The Perseus Digital Library (University of Chicago mirror site)
• Internet Ancient History Sourcebook
• Classical Language Instruction Project (Listen to the ancient languages; Princeton University Department of Classics)

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Last Updated: 2005-09-20

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