Websites
Useful to Classicists (as of November 2009 )
Karl
Maurer, Department of Classics, the University of Dallas
(http://udallasclassics.org/index.html)
The following list is arranged
alphabetically by these topics: 1 Bibliography (data
bases); 2 Book reviews
online; 3 Bookstores for
classicists; 4 Coins; 5 Concordances; 6 Dictionaries; 7 Encyclopedias; 8 Etruscans; 8-A Graduate Study in Classics; 9 Greek
fonts; 10 Grammar (Gk.
& Lat.); 11 History (Gk.,
Roman); 12 Inscriptions; 13 Journals
(classical) online; 14 Link sites; 15 Maps; 16 Music; 17 Meter (Classical); 18 Medieval
& Christian; 19 Mythology; 20 New
Testament; 21 Papyri; 22 Pompeii and
surrouding areas; 24 Rhetoric; 25 Rome (city of); 26 Ships; 27 TEXTS on-line (see
also Appendix II); 28 Theater; 29 Vases (Greek); 30 Misc.; Appendix I
List of Classical Journals; Appendix II
Contents of Lacus Curtius. (The former section 23 on Post-Bac. programs has
been eliminated, since those are now given in 8-A, Graduate Study in Classics.)
The two most valuable, for
classicists, of all web sites are probably JSTOR
which has thousands of online classics articles (see 13) and www.archive.org,
which has thousands of books in PDF format, including many classical texts and
commentaries (see 27, Texts).
(1) BIBLIOGRAPHY, i.e. mere lists, of books or articles
themselves which you must then find in the library, or at www.archive.org (on which see 27), or at JSTOR (on
which see 13).
(a) TOCS-IN = searchable
database consisting of the tables of contents of 160 journals, & of many
Festschrifts, pert. to Classics, Near Eastern Studies & Religion. (For a
list of the classical journals see below, Appendix.) Covers c. 23000 articles
published since 1992, and thousands more published before 1992.
(b)
ANNEE PHILOLOGIQUE = home page of home page of the ANNÉE PHILOLOGIQUE. The
printed version, is in the reference section of the library; that lists
everything published on classical topics, whether in books or in journals, in
the past few decades. The web site, which you can access using the UD server,
at present covers the years 1969-1999.
(c) GNOMON =
data-base that contains all titles in classics from 1997 on. You can search it
either as a whole or by topics. The site is in German, but have patience and
figure out how to do it; what makes it valuable is its many very finely
differentiated topics. (The full data-base, which includes titles prior to
1997, is on a CD Rom in possession of Dr. Sweet.)
(e) Hellinistic
Bibliography at the University of Leiden. Huge bibliography for (a) Greek Hellenistic poets; (b) Pindar and
Sappho, and (c) major Latin poets. "The database has grown to ca. 13,550
records. For nearly all Greek authors it now contains all publications listed
in APh 30-73 (1959-2002) - and for some much more. Periodicals are covered
until June 2004."
Bibliography
for Latin literature
(f) Dutch
Bibliography of Latin texts = Bibliography of Latin lang. & lit. for
Dutch university students, by M. van der Poel.
Bibliographic
links in general
(g) DIOTIMA = bibliography for
classical authors (includes Greek lyric)
(h) Latin & Greek authors
on the Web = "Latin and Greek authors on the web", links to sites
with text and/or bibliography, for authors both classical and post-classical.
(2) BOOK REVIEWS
on-line:
BRYN
MAWR CLASSICAL REVIEW = the best on-line classical journal: reviews most
first-rate books on classical subject published in last 10 years or so. Quick
easy search devices. (Other classical journals also review on-line--see 13.)
(3) BOOKSTORES
(to order classical books on-line):
(a)
William H. Allen Bookseller = a
2nd-hand bookstore in Philadelphia, specializing in classics. (All Greek
majors, by the way, should get W.W. Goodwin, Moods and Tenses of the Greek
Verb, which W.H. Allen reprinted.)
(b)
Schoenhof's Foreign Books (large Classics selection)
(c)
Amazon = for all books in print. (But note well that Amazon's cataloging is
semi-literate. Often you must try different versions of the title etc.)
(d) Duckworth = Duckworth Academic,
Bristol Classical Press, Classical Press of Wales. Many classical texts,
commentaries, etc., elsewhere out of print.
(e) Alibris
(4) COINS:
Wildwinds = "online reference,
attribution and valuation site for ancient Greek, Roman and Byzantine
coins"
(5) CONCORDANCES:
Itinera
Electronica= concordances ("hypertexts") to Latin authors
(6) DICTIONARIES
on-line (& see also 7.b, the Suda)
(a) Perseus Digital Library (=27.c.2
below): there find links to the big Liddell & Scott (Greek) or Lewis &
Short (Latin), or to shorter versions of each. If you want to go right to
either dictionary, use these addresses: Greek: Liddell
& Scott Greek Lexicon. Latin: Lewis
& Short Latin dictionary
(b) yourdictionary.com = on-line
dictionaries for practically any language.
(c) Babel Fish = crude machine
translation done for you on-line from French, Italian, Spanish, German etc.
(but fortunately, not from Greek or Latin).
(d) Online
Etymological Dictionary = splendid etymological dictionary of English
(e) Latin place
names = Latin place names and their modern equivalents, in alphabetical order.
(f) Slater's
Lexicon to Pindar (at Perseus)
(g) Wikipedia: List of
Ancient Romans = a biographical dictionary of ancient Romans. Two quirks:
(a) place names are listed alphabetically sometimes under the nomen, sometimes
under the cognomen--so you should use your browser's "find" window;
(b) only the links in blue connect to biographies; for those in red, none are
written yet.
(h) Woodhouse's Greek to English Dictionary (at University of Chicago website); extremely well-made dictionary for use in Greek composition. (For LATIN composition you need J. E. Riddle, English-Latin Lexicon, NY 1864, which you can find and download at www.archive.org.)
(i) Pollux: Archimedes Project Access. Searchable digitized versions of Liddell-Scott-Jones GREEK LEXICON, Bonitz's INDEX ARISTOTELICUS, Autenreith's HOMERIC LEXICON, Lewis & Short's LATIN DICTIONARY and many other things (e.g. the Dictionnaire de l'Acédemie française of 1762). (The Archimedes Project main site in Berlin is at http://archimedes2.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/archimedes_templates/project.htm.)
(j)An English-Greek Lexicon by G. M. Edwards (second edition, 1914; reprinted 1930). Scanned by the Tim Spalding for AncientLibrary.com. Much briefer than Woodhouse (6.h), but also much quicker.
(k) LEWIS
& SHORT Latin dict. -- another digitized version. It's called "Glossa: a Latin
dictionary" but is really just Lewis & Short. This version you can actually download onto
your desktop. Another good feature is
that when you search, it lists the half dozen words that precede and those that
follow the one you're searching for. It
still has typos (especially in Greek words); but they say they're correcting
them.
(7) "ENCYCLOPEDIAS"
(a) Perseus Digital Library (=27.c.2
below, the PERSEUS PROJECT): has search engines which cover the entire site, so
that the site is, in effect, an encyclopedia.
(b) Suda On-line: Byzantine Lexicography =
on-line the entire Suda, which is a medieval (Byzantine) encyclopedia &
Greek dictionary.
(c) Ancient Names
Galleria = ancient proper names. Be patient with this site--at first it
looks like it will not come up, but if you wait it will.
(d) 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
(e) Lacus Curtius
= intelligently arranged entries from William Smith's hugely useful old
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities
(f) William Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, an old fine-textured classical encyclopedia, full of often fascinating information about institutions, offices, places, things, etc., illustrated by charming old woodcuts. Consult it if you want to know what a Praetor's or a Consul's or anyone else's exact duties were, or how they dressed, or what ancient ploughs looked like, or what kinds of fishing nets Greeks and Romans used -- etc. (The above link is to carefully digitized, well proof-read excerpts. You can get the whole huge volume itself at archive.org on which see 27 below.)
(f.2)Dictionary of Greek and
Roman Antiquities by William Smith. A complete digitized version. By using the search-window you can read the
Dictionary's entry for anything in both photographic and digital form.
(f.3)
William Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman
Biography and Mythology. A
complete digitized version.
(g) Wikipedia: List of
Ancient Romans = a biographical dictionary of ancient Romans. Two quirks:
(a) place names are listed alphabetically sometimes under the nomen, sometimes
under the cognomen--so you should use your browser's "find" window;
(b) only the links in blue connect to biographies; for those in red, none are
written yet.
(h) Dictionnaire des
Antiquités Grecques et Romaines de Daremberg et Saglio: a magnificent old
French classical encyclopedia (the link goes directly to the index). If you
read French you can search it quickly for anything -- the search-device is well
made, in that when you type a word it gives links to many articles in which
that word appears; so e.g. if I type in "oscillum", it gives me links
to Orpheus, Donarium, Sacrificium; if I type "oscilla" it gives links
to 14 other articles incl. Paganalia. ((The search-device has a few bugs. For
example, there is actually an article on "Oscillum", with three
charming illustrations, but it isn't indexed, and in order to find it you have
to scroll through page after page of the huge article on Orpheus, where it's
printed at the end--i.e. after Orpheus, Orphics, Orphism, etc.--till you get
alphabetically to Oscillum. Similarly, to get the article on
"Clipeus", which has 3 more illustrations of oscilla, you have to go
to "Clima", then scroll to Clipeus.)) The text can be read either in
digital form (by hitting the feather in the top right corner of the page, when
you're in an article) or in JPEG photos. The photo-form is often needed, (a)
because the scanning wasn't proofread and (b) because of the very copious, very
instructive, old woodcuts that illustrate everything (woodcuts, or fine line
drawings, always illustrate a thing way better than photos do). If the JPEG
page is hard to read you just hit the magnifying glass in the upper right.
(i)
Dictionary of Classical Antiquities : by Oskar Seyffert (1894), edited by Henry Nettleship and J. E. Sandys, translated by various hands.
(j)
The Classical Gazeteer : byWilliam Hazlitt, (1851). Very brief indentifications of classical place names.
(8) ETRUSCANS
(a) The Mysterious Etruscans = good,
systematic, well-organized site about the Etruscans.
(b) George
Dennis: Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria = a fascinating book by a learned
mid-19th-century English traveller.
(8-A) GRADUATE STUDY IN CLASSICS. The Classical Journal has a very good pithy website for this: http://www.classicaljournal.org/study_classics.php. It describes (& has direct links to):
=> 50 or so Classics grad. programs that responded to their survey. To each dep't they sent a questionnaire, from the answers to which you can often, I think, guess roughly what your chances are of getting in. E.g. how many they admit each year & what percentage of applicants (this varies wildly: 3% at U. Chicago to 90% at another place), what GRE scores they expect you to have, what else they want in an applicant, details about funding, and so on.
=> PhD Programs (there are 48)
=> MA-only Programs (23)
=> Post-Baccalaureate Programs (7. This tells you, among other things, how many of each program's graduates went on to grad. school, and where.)
=> Select Overseas Programs (Cambridge, Oxford, Melbourne, Otago, St. Andrews)
=> "Search PhD Production by
Department". Don't ignore this feature! You can get lists of
titles of all PhD dissertations that each place has produced, and often even
where their authors are now working -- often with links to their web pages --
and even details about the advisor, such as a list with links to the other
dissertations he or she directed.
(9) GREEK FONT:
HOW TO GET ONE, etc. MULTIKEY 5.0 seems the best
wholly free Greek font and 'keyboard' system that is at present downloadable
online; you can get it downloaded and working in just a few minutes. After downloading, you must use their Help
file (a PDF file called Multikey Manual, which downloads automatically with the
rest of the package). When you specify
what 'default' fonts you prefer -- which you do in a file called "Multikey
Preferences", I recommend that you specify "Palatino Lintotype"
for both Greek and English. That's a Unicode font (if you know what that
is); it's the font I use e.g. in my online "Greek Grammar Handout" --
it's very clear and pretty, and you already have it 'installed' on your
computer if you use Windows XP or later. But this is only a
recommendation; you can of course try different fonts (for links, see below) and
use any you like. (I suppose that MacIntosh
users might have problems -- I don't know if they will, but I know they do with
other Greek keyboard systems. The 'Multikey Manual' says nothing at all
about Macs; so perhaps that means that it isn't designed for them.)
"Multikey" is Unicode Greek,
which is good because: (A) it is easy to type, and easy to switch between
languages; (B) it survives e-mail transmission intact (though often Macs have
problems); (C) many web sites offer much of Greek literature in unicode (you
can download texts not only from Perseus, but also e.g. from "The Little
Sailing" which has all Homer, Hesiod, Herodotus, Thuc., etc.); and (D)
many Unicode fonts, which can handle Greek, are probably already included in
your Windows software. (E.g. Palatino Linotype, Estrangelo, Eurostyle, ÌV Boli,
Papyrus, Perpetua, Raavi, Tahoma, Tunga.) For more information about unicode,
and for more unicode fonts, see: Unicode Polytonic
Greek for the World Wide Web . See
also: Peter Gainsford's Greek
Font Archive: a splendid Greek font archive; also Luc Devrove's Greek and
Coptic Language Fonts.
If
you want some program other than that given above, when wondering what to
choose, remember: ==>> You need "ancient", alias
"polytonic", Greek that has acute, grave and circumflex accents and
the breathings, not "modern", alias "monotonic", Greek that
has only acute accents. (N.b.: the "Symbol" font that comes with
Windows is useless, since it has no accents and breathings.) ==>> Many fonts are only for web
viewing with the browser. If you only want that, then see "http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/Help/fonthelp.html#browser"--
that is very easy to set up. But if you want Greek that you can actually type
and "edit". ==>> You need a font or fonts that come with a
"keyboard" (or "keyboard utility" or "keyboard
manager"). Without that you cannot type the breathings, accents, etc. One such is Tavultesoft Greek
Font: this is no longer free but is such a good program that you may want
to purchase it (i.e. if for some reason "Multikey" doesn't work for
you). ==>> Programs that include
that "keyboard utility" always have a file containing instructions on
how to use it and a keyboard diagram. After downloading, you have to find that
file and learn the rules.
(10) GRAMMAR & PRONUNCIATION OF GREEK AND LATIN
(a) Perseus Digital Library (=20.a) has
lexicons, grammatical links, etc.
(b) Comprehensive Guide to Wheelock's
Latin = online supplement to Wheelock. Has good glossary of grammatical
terms, needed esp. by students who have never studied a foreign language.
(c) Birbeck College Classical
Language Links = links to Gk./Lat. language sites; however, the links can
only be accessed by Birbek College students.
(d) Musical
Pitch Accents in Greek = How to accent & pronounce Greek.
(e) Lingua Latina =
Latin grammar
(f) Comparative
Latin Grammar = a brief but pithy and good "Comparative Latin
Grammar" by the linguist Cyril Babaev
(g) http://www.biblicalgreek.org/links/verbchart.html= complete conjugation of the verb "luo" (from the Institute of
Biblical Greek)
(h) GREEK GRAMMAR
HANDOUT = Greek noun, pron., adj. & verb tables, and various other
things, by Karl Maurer at the Univ. of Dallas.
(i) Latin Grammar
Handout by Karl Maurer at the Univ. of Dallas.
(j) Sketch
of the Latin Language = the 1911 Encyclopedia
Britannica article by Wilkins and Conway. (This is at various places on the web but is here proofread to a much greater
accuracy.)
(k) Helma
Dik's Nifty Greek Handouts = Greek verb tables and the like, and they
really are 'nifty' !
(l) Chase & Phillips Handout by Karl Maurer at the U. of Dallas, has a list of the Greek words used by C & P (listing the chapter in which each is first taught), additions to the English-to-Greek Vocabulary, various other things.
(m) HOW TO PRONOUNCE LATIN. (For Greek see below, section 16.) Latin verse and prose recited by professors at Harvard (verse by Vergil, Propertius, Ovid, Statius; prose by Cicero; the readers Wendell Clausen, Kathleen Coleman, Richard Tarrant, Richard Thomas). In reading Latin verse you need to handle three things simultaneously, without letting any of them dominate: the meter, the everyday stress-accent, and the meaning. The verse has to be musical, yet also living speech. The best of these Harvard readers, I think, is Coleman; all three elements are balanced beautifully.
(n) ALLEN &
GREENOUGH, New Latin Grammar, PART I: Words and
Forms and PART
II: Syntax. A famous old Latin
grammar book. There are other versions of
this online, but if you have ever tried to use them, you perhaps have cursed them,
because they have too many hyper-links, and you can open only one tiny page at
a time. This version, by the blessed
William Harris of Middlebury, puts the whole book in two simple, downloadable
text files. His version "has no
diacritics, so it can be searched by entering in the browser's FIND the word in
plain characters", and it has other search-friendly features.
(11) HISTORY, GREEK
& ROMAN (for Medieval, see #15)
(a) Internet Ancient
History Sourcebook at Fordham Univ. Links pertinent not only to
"history" but to all aspects of classical and later antiquity. The
Greek and the Roman sections each include a very large collection of Latin
& Greek texts (mostly in translation), arranged both by topics and
chronologically. Texts are of all sorts; e.g. Ptolemy's Geography (see 15.d
below); texts pert. to Roman law (e.g. a wonderful 35-page potted history of
Roman law by Gibbon); a section on ancient ships; also sections on literature
(i.e. many complete classical texts, mostly in translation).
(b) Ancient Roman
History Timeline IV = crude list of events, persons, etc., associated with
various dates in ancient times, listed chronologically.
(c) Greek and Roman History
= very miscellaneous history site, with some charming things, e.g. a list of
Roman census results from 508 BC (130,000 citizens) to AD 47 (over 6,944,000
citizens)
(d) Augustus' Rise to
Power: Lectures by David Gill = many categorized quotes from primary
sources.
(e) Timelines
for Ancient Rome = Good "chronology" (timeline) of Roman history
from Sandys' old Companion to Latin
Studies.
(f) Gibbon'sDecline and Fall of the Roman Empire. This seems to be a complete
good text, except that it is missing Gibbon's notes.
(g) Imperium
Romanum: List of Consuls = fasti consulares, a complete, exact, good
chronological list of Roman consuls, dictators, etc.
(h) Lacus Curtius
= intelligently arranged entries from William Smith's hugely useful old
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities.
(i) Maecenas:
Pictures of Ancient Greece and Rome
(j) http://www.livius.org/le-lh/legio/legions.htm
= site about the Roman legions: the locations and histories of each of them.
(k) Little Roman
Dictionary by Karl Maurer at the U. of Dallas = (A) a "Little
Political Dictionary" describing Roman magistracies, institutions, etc.
and (B) 23 'Appendices' describing this or that in greater detail (Lawcourts,
Army, Provinces, Festivals, and so on).
(l) Little Athenian
Dictionary by Karl Maurer at the U. of Dallas.
The web also has many chronologies
which you can find by going to www.google.com and
typing e.g. "Chronology of Athenian History" or "Chr. of Roman
History". These vary hugely in quality.
(12) INSCRIPTIONS, GREEK & LATIN
(a) U.S. Epigraphy Project = Index of
Greek, Latin, Etruscan inscriptions published in the USA. For a list of on-line
images, hit the link "Collections" in the left-hand margin. 4 types:
Epitaphs, Dedicatory, Instrumentum domesticum, Misc., each subdivided by
region.
(b) American Society of Greek and
Latin Epigraphy = links to epigraphical sites
Greek inscriptions only:
(c) Inscriptiones
Graecae = at Berlin-Brandenberg Academy. This is an index; it has not the
inscriptions themselves (for some of them see below, 10e), but only the volume
numbers, tables of contents etc.
(d) Oxford Inscriptions.
Digitized photos of several hundred Inscriptiones Graecae organized by
geographical region.
(e) Elizabeth Meyer: On the Evolution of
Slavery In Rome & Greece = a searchable archive of Greek inscriptions.
Latin inscriptions only:
(f) Epigraphik-Datenbank.
This seems, incredibly, to contain the entire C.I.L. (Corpus Inscriptionum
Latinarum) and other collections. it combines the different collections of
inscriptions into one magnificent, searchable data-base. It asks you for
"Beleg" = the modern source (e.g. CIL) to search, "Provinz"
= the Roman province to search, "Ort" = the place to search (use
either its modern name or its ancient), and "Suchtext" = your
keyword(s). You need not fill in all of that; you can leave everything blank
except "Suchtext".
(g) Abbreviations in
Latin Inscriptions = a very good alphabetical list of all abbreviations
used in Latin inscriptions. In inscriptions, abbreviated words are usually
filled out by the CIL or AE editors. But as you'll sooner or later notice,
their supplements are rather often wrong; so it's helpful to have this list of
the possibilities.
(i) "Epigraphic Database Bari" =
"documenti epigrafici romani di committenza cristiana, secoli III -
VIII", i.e. Christian inscriptions from the 3rd to the 8th centuries.
(j)Senatus Consultum de Cn. Pisone Patre = good
edition (this also at "12.g." above -- there the text is stricter,
yet worse edited).
Note also that many old collections that have
useful notes, such as Orelli, Dessau, Bücheler can be downloaded in PDF format
at www.archive.org.
(13) JOURNALS ON-LINE.
For downloadable articles on classical
topics, the first thing to consult is always JSTOR which you can access using the U.D. server. Go to the
UD library website, then hit "Databases" (http://www.udallas.edu/library/guideselect.cfm)
and hit JSTOR. You there get many
thousands of articles in back issues of classical journals, and you can search
the data-base by topic, title, author, etc.
Similar to JSTOR, but containing fewer
journals, is Project Muse, which you
can access in that same place. Also:
(a) Bibliotheca Classica Selecta
(Belgian site by Jacques Poucet) = complete list of classical journals
on-line (with descriptions & links. Also links to those not on-line but
with web sites).
(b) Bryn Mawr Classical Review (see section
2 above).
(c) Vergilius = on Vergil.
(e) Electronic Antiquity =
1993 to present.
(f) Bibliotheca
Classica Selecta & AgoraCLASS = list of on-line journals
(h) Friends of Classics
= interesting TLS reviews of Classical books.
(14) LINK SITES
each has many links to other classics sites, grouped by topics
(a) Electronic Resources For
Classicists = U. California, Irvine. (Topics = Home Pages, E-publications,
Publishers & Journals, Bibliographical Indexes, Bibliographies, Images,
E-text archives, Course Materials, Author-Specific Sites, Fonts and Software,
Professional organizations, Classics Departments, On-line Seminars, Misc., K-12
Resources, Discussion Groups.)
(b) Oriental
Institute Search Archive = systematic links for the ancient Near East
including Greece.
(c) American Philological Association
(d) 15
Greek Heroes from Plutarch's Lives = big links site
(e) Internet Resources: Ancient
Greece = Internet resources: Ancient Greece
(f) Latin
Literature at Bucknell University website.
(g) CLASSICS RESOURCES
(Washington University) = an intelligent, pellucid, very rich list; among the
categories are: General Classics Listings; Greek-Latin Reference Sites; Texts:
General; Classics E-Journals; Classics E-Lists; Maps; Greek Teaching Tools;
Greek Paleography & Epigraphy; Greek Grammar; Greek Lexica; Greek Authors
& Texts; Latin Authors & Sites; Medieval Latin Language & Culture.
(15) MAPS on-line:
(a) Oriental Institute Map
Series (= 14.b).
(b) Maps of the Roman Empire
= list of links to many maps especially pertinent to Roman history; includes
ancient maps.
(c) Ptolemy's
Geography = (many of the maps themselves)
(d) Virgil.org
= very good list of links
(e) Henry
Davis: Ancient Maps = good long list of links to maps
(f) http://catholic-resources.org/AncientRome/Platner.htm.
Maps -- some outdated, yet still useful -- from Samuel Ball Platner's The
Topography and Monuments of Ancient Rome = Good site for maps of the ancient
world (and later)
(g) Peutinger
Map = Photos of the whole of the astounding Peutinger Map, which is a
medieval copy and adaptation of an ancient Roman "road map" of the
world.
Since the above list was first made,
many good maps have appeared in WIKIPEDIA articles on classical topics; so when
you want a map of something in particular, you might try there first.
(16) MUSIC:
Austrian
Academy of Sciences: Ancient Greek Music = "contains all published
fragments of Ancient Greek music which contain more than a few scattered notes.
All... recorded under the use of tunings whose exact ratios have been
transmitted to us by ancient theoreticians .... Instruments and speed are chosen
by the author. The exact sound depends on your hard- and software"
(17) METER
(classical):
(18) MEDIEVAL STUDIES;
LATE ANTIQUITY; CHRISTIANITY etc.
You can get maybe 100 sites by typing "Medieval studies" in the
search window at Google (30); see also the "link" sites in 14 at
"text sites in 27; but four of the best are:
(a) Patrologia
Latina = complete on-line version of Migne's prodigious Patrologia Latina =
the works of the "Church Fathers" from the 3rd to the 13th century
(many of which are available only in this edition by Migne). To use it you have
to be on-line via the U. Dallas server (you can't use it via your own AOL account,
etc.). Many ways of searching -- read instructions, experiment, figure out how
to use.
(b) The Labyrinth at Georgetown U. =
links to resources for Medieval Studies -- an exhaustive, lucid site.
(d) Internet Medieval Sourcebook
by Paul Halsall at Fordham University
(19) MYTHOLOGY
(b) THEOI
PROJECT = extremely rich site
(20) NEW
TESTAMENT, etc:
find NT links amid the links at 14.a, 14.b, 14.c etc. Also:
(a) "Greek New Testament Index"
= a table of contents to the New Testament; by hitting the links you get the
Greek text.
(b) Septuagint and Greek
New Testament can both be downloaded at the Biblioteca Augustana.
(21) PAPYRI (see
also Perseus, 27.c.2--find their papyrus link--or search the sites in 14):
(a) Oxyrrhynchos Papyri = searchable by
volume number & in other ways; has photos of the papyri themselves.
(b) Center
for Hellenic Studies: Homer & Papyri Searchable data-base, edited by G.
Nagy & others, of published Homeric papyri.
(c) Catalogue of
Mythographic Papyri
(d) http://www.rzuser.uni-heidelberg.de/~gv0/Searchhelp.html
= Papyrus data-base
(22) POMPEII (&
OPLONTIS & BAY OF NAPLES):
(a) http://www.utexas.edu/courses/romanciv/30222housesimages.htm.
Photos of Ostia and Pompeii.
(b) http://www.mmdtkw.org/ALRItkwPages.html#Vesuvius.
Pompeii, Vesuvius, the 79 AD eruption (from ALRI, the Arlington Learning in
Retirement Institute)
(c) http://www.utexas.edu/courses/italianarch/pompeii.html.
Pompeii interiors (mostly wall paintings), with a map of all Pompeii.
(d) http://www.mmdtkw.org/ALRItkwVes08CampiFlegrei.html
. Maps and photos relating to the Bay of Naples and the 79 eruption.
(e) Villa at Opplontis.
Plan and photos of the villa Poppaea at Oplontis. You can click on rooms in the
plan to see photos of them.
(f) http://sights.seindal.dk/sight/722_Pompeii.html.
Photos of Pompeii.
(g) Photos
of Pompeii = Many photos of Pompeii, opening from thumbnails
(24) RHETORIC
Silva Rhetoricae by Gideon
Burton, Brigham Young Univ.; has (a) a long, good alphabetical glossary of
rhetorical terms (with examples from English lit.), and (b) discussion by
topics (kinds of oratory; kinds of proof; etc.)
(25) ROME, City of
(see also 9.d)
(a) Platner
& Ashby's A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome = Here it's not
digitized, only photographed. You can get it all in digital form at Perseus
(see below, 20a) -- but at Perseus, as always, you can open only one tiny
section at a time.
(b) Le Plan de Rome = good French
site: has pictures of the buildings (as they are now, & as they were);
quotes the ancient sources for each building.
(c) World
Wide Web Virtual Library: Ancient Rome = a wonderful list of links
(d) Stanford
"Rome"
(e) Theatron
Ltd.: Theatres of Rome
(f) Ancient Rome in the Footsteps of an
18th-c. traveller = links to hundreds of 18th-c. engravings of Rome by
Giuseppe Vasi (with photos of the same places as they appear today).
(g) Pagan
and Christian Rome= a fascinating book by Rodolfo Lanciani, who was
"an archaeologist who for many years towards the close of the 19th c. was
in charge of all the excavations within the city of Rome, and personally
responsible for a number of major discoveries which we now take for
granted".
(h) A
Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, by Samuel Ball Platner.
(i) http://sights.seindal.dk/sight/158_Comitium.html
. Fairly accurate description of the Comitium (with a very good analytical map,
which seems based on the work of Filippo Coarelli)
(j) Forum of Trajan. Page of links to
sites on the Forum of Trajan
(k) http://home.surewest.net/fifi/index50.html
= Photos of a 3-dimensional model of the Roman Forum of 179 AD
(l) http://www2.siba.fi/~kkoskim/imbas/roma/startpage.php?lang=en&action=1
. Well-organized good photos of all Rome.
(m) http://classics.furman.edu/~rprior/courses/RA/RAU59.html
= illustrations to a course in Roman architecture and engineering.
(n) http://www.romeartlover.it/Fuoriroma.html#Italy.
Photos (and descriptions) of Italian towns (esp. in Latium)
(26) SHIPS, ancient:
(For ships see also 9.a)
Center for
Maritime Archaeology = Naval history & archaeology by John Illsley, a
first-rate scholar. Good discussions, pictures (splendid ones), bibliographies
of many kinds of ancient ship
(27) TEXTS on-line
(see also Appendix
II)
This section is organized thus: (a) GREEK
texts ('digital libraries'), (b) LATIN (ditto), (c) GREEK & LATIN BOTH
(ditto), (d) MEDIEVAL & NEO-LATIN, (e) GREEK LYRIC (collections of; mostly
in English), (f) INDIVIDUAL AUTHORS in alphabetical order (most but not all in
English translation).
Note that this section lists only
"digital texts" in the strict sense; that is, text files, produced by
scanning and OCR (or by typing), that you can download and edit on your
computer. For PDF files of printed books,
including hundreds of classical texts and commentaries, always try first the
search window at that most astounding of all web sites, WWW.ARCHIVE.ORG. Archive.org is a fruit
of Microsoft's and Google's endeavor to digitize all works in the public domain
(so it overlaps with Google Books; but I suggest always trying archive.org
first). Often the scanning and labelling
was done by very ignorant people; many things are so badly labelled that you
have to open the file to know what's in it. (E.g. for "author" they often list the editor; as
"language" they often say e.g. Latin, when it's actually Greek with a
Latin title or commentary; a single work in ten volumes they will list as ten
separate works; and so on). But still
it's a prodigiously wonderful site, where you can find, for example, many very
old, extremely valuable commentaries.
PDF files of some works--e.g. a thing
like William Smith's Dictionary of Greek
and Roman Antiquities (see above, Encyclopedias)--are so huge that they can
nearly paralyze your computer. In such
cases, the best thing to do is download one of the many free PDF splitters
available online and split it into many smaller files. (I myself use "PDF Toolkit" which
is light and quick and easy to use.)
(27.a)
Greek Texts, 'digital libraries' of (see also Perseus = 27.c.2)
(a.1) The Little Sailing: Links
= good list of links to digital libraries of Greek texts
(a.2) LATO: Library of Ancient Texts Online
= an abnormally complete collection of Greek texts (some in Greek, some only in
translation, some in both)
(a.3) The Little Sailing: Ancient
Greek Texts = unicode texts, include all Homer, all tragedy, Thucydides,
Herodotus, and so on.
(a.4) Greci Autori = Italian site;
very misc. selections from many Greek authors: some in Greek, some only in
translation, some only in PDF format.
(a.5) Greek Poetic Texts = texts of lyric
poets (lyric poets are also in a.2)
(27.b) Latin Texts, 'digital libraries'
of (see also Perseus = 27.c.2)
(b.1) Corpus Scriptorum
Latinorum = David Camden's "The Forum". Maybe 30% have English
translations. Has most classical stuff (e.g. all Cicero incl. the letters),
also many medieval (e.g. 11 items by Aquinas including all the Summa); also
e.g. Luther; Petrarch, Dante, Poggio, Campion, Milton; even a Latin hexameter
poem, written for a school prize when he was 14, by Rimbaud!
(b.2) The Latin Library Many Latin authors,
none translated. Has some texts not found elsewhere, e.g. all Pliny's letters.
(b.3) Bucknell
Classics Department: Latin Texts Texts of 14 major authors. Also links to
bibliographies for Catullus, Horace, Livy, Ovid, Propertius, Vergil.
(b.4) Roman Authors Many texts not
found elsewhere, e.g. major fragmentary authors (Varro, Cato Maior, Ennius);
obscure authors; inscriptions. Some dead links
(b.5) Autori Latini = very long
good Italian site -- has texts with splendid, rapid concordances.
(b.6) Augustonemetum
= French site
(b.7) http://www.brepolis.net/
= Library of Latin Texts (CLCLT). A prodigious database of Latin texts,
classical (both major and minor), medieval, and modern. You have to use the
U.D. server (U.D. subscribes to it). Their ultimate mad goal is to include
every Latin text ever published, but already it has a vast number of obscure
texts; e.g. the "Ilias Latina" by Baebius Italicus; Latin transl. of
Plato by Cicero; fragments of Pollio; Donatus' life of Vergil, Probus' life of
Persius; Latin texts produced by various Church councils, including Vatican II;
and so on. It has elaborate search functions (which I haven't tested) and links
to 3 medieval Latin dictionaries. ODDITIES: (a) text appears without
verse-numbers (if verse) or sentence numbers (if prose), but only with poem- or
chapter-numbers. (b) You can set the maximum screen display as "30";
but this means the number not of lines but of sentences! So e.g. your page of
Propertius will have 30 units, one half averse long, one 10 verses long
(depending on where the editors placed the periods)!
(27.c)
Latin & Greek both: 'digital libraries' of:
(c.2) Perseus:
Greek & Roman Materials (or hit links you find at the briefer address www.perseus.tufts.edu
= the PERSEUS Project. Has Greek & Latin tests (but only those most
commonly taught in American colleges) also English translations, commentary,
dictionaries, maps, pictures, etc.,; also has data-bank of papyri. For
downloading, other sites are better since here (maddeningly) you can download
only one page or often paragraph at a time.
(c.3) Latin & Greek
Authors on the Web = both classical and later authors. Some links are only
to bibliography, some to texts, some to both.
(c.4) Biblioteca Augustana
= Greek and Latin texts chronologically by century (up to the 20th) or
alphabetically. Greek in Unicode for Aristotle's Athenaion Politeia); for other
texts, APAXNION (for instructions see http://www.fh-augsburg.de/~harsch/graeca/g_nota.html.
(c.5) Internet Ancient
History Sourcebook. A "history" site, but the Greek & Roman
sections have many primary texts (mostly in translation), arranged both by
topics and chronologically.
(c.6) Online Books Page at
Univ. of Pennsylvania = long list of all on-line books (not only
classical). All Greek & Roman authors are in English translation.
(c.7) The MIT Internet Classics Archive = many
classical authors in English translation (e.g. all of Plutarch's Lives; all Dio
Cassius; Tacitus Annals).
(c.8) http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/home.html
= a site"for teaching yourself to read Latin inscriptions, the complete Latin
texts of Pliny the Elder's Natural History, Quintus Curtius' Histories
of Alexander the Great, the Saturnalia of Macrobius, and Censorinus'de DieNatali; the Architecture of Vitruvius and the Aqueducts
and the Stratagems of Frontinus in both Latin and English; complete
English translations of Polybius and of Cassius Dio's History of Rome.
(27.d)
Medieval & Neolatin (renaissance) authors:
(d.1) Migne's Patrologia Latina (see above,
18.a).
(d.2) The Labyrinth at Georgetown U. (see
above, 18.b).
(d.3) The Philological Museum
(by Dana Sutton, U. Cal. Irvine) = truly magnificent huge list of links to
sites pert. to neo-latin authors -- alphabetical by author.
(d.4) http://www.fh-augsburg.de/~harsch
(see 27.c.4 above)
(d.5) Thomas Hobbes' Vita Carmine Expressa = text, with
translation and notes by Karl Maurer, of Hobbes' autobiography which he wrote
in Latin elegiac couplets.
(27.e)
Greek Lyric (in English):
(e.1) Greek
Lyric Poets in English (with notes), translated John Porter U. of
Saskatchewan. For Solon, Theognis see extension /Solon.html
(e.2) Course Outline
for Classics 115 = pictures of symposia, komoi
(e.3) Introduction to
Greek Lyric
(e.4) Everything
Spartan, Lakonian, & Messenian = Sparta, lyric, Alcman
(e.5) PINDAR's HOMER = book by
Gregory Nagy, all online. Is of interest for Greek lyric -- especially chapter
12, especially sections 18 ff. on Alcman.
(27.f)
Individual Authors (in alphabetical order of names)
Alkman (in English):
(f.1) Alkman
(f.2) Alkman's
Account of a Religious Ritual
(f.3) Alkman: The Choral
Poetry of Ancient Sparta
St. Augustine:
(f.5) Augustine of Hippo (&
links there) = J. J. O'Donnell's text of & commentary on the
Confessions.
Cicero (in English):
(f.7) List of English Translations
of Cicero's Works
(f.8) Works by Cicero
(f.9) Famous Orations by Cicero
Hesiod & Homer
(f.10) http://www.stoa.org/chs/ = "The
Multi-Text Homer" from the Center for Hellenic Studies. As I type this
entry on 10 Sept. 2005, all the links are dead; but I have used some of them in
the past (e.g. a text & commentary on Theognis, by Nagy & Figuera); and
according to the on-site boast, it "will eventually include multitexts of
the Iliad and Odyssey, Greek texts and English translations of the lives of
Homer, Proclus' summaries of the Epic Cycle, and the Homeric Hymns. The
multitext will also be linked to supplementary materials, including information
about Alexandrian and Pergamene libraries, scholars, and scholarship.
Collations with the main texts will include the Homeric papyri, the Venetus A,
known readings of Aristarchus and Zenodotus, the various so-called 'city editions',
quotations of Homer in fifth- and fourth-century BC authors, as well as other
important editions and manuscripts. A major contribution of the project is that
it offers an unprecedented access to the scholia contained in the Venetus A by
means of high resolution digital images of the manuscript, and will eventually
include an electronic edition of the Greek text, as well as a translation (a
translation of the Homeric scholia has never been published)."
(f.11) http://www.library.northwestern.edu/homer/html/application.html
= "The Chicago Homer", a good, many-sided search engine that
word-searches the digitized (Unicode only) text of the Iliad, the Odyssey, the
Homeric Hymns, the Theogony, the Works & Days, and the Shield of Achilles.
(For instructions about Unicode, see under Greek Fonts.)
Machiavelli's Discourses on Livy
(Eng.):
(f.12) Discourses on the First 10
Books of Titus Livy
Menander:
(f.13) Greek text of
Dyskolos (Grouch)
'Old
Oligarch':
(f.13-A) Constitution of the
Athenians = text & grammatical commentary by Karl Maurer (U. of
Dallas)
Ovid:
(f.14) Ovid in Exile
(f.15) The Love Books of
Ovid
(f.16) Ovid Homepage (in
German)
Pindar:
(f.17) Recitations
from 5 Odes of Pindar.
(f.17-A) Index of
Pindar's Images for Poet, Poetry, Song by Karl Maurer at the Univ. of
Dallas.
Pythagoras (English)
(f.18) The
Pythagorean Counsels
Sappho (in English):
(f.19) List of Sappho sites on the
web
Sophocles:
(f.20) Great Book Index:
Sophocles = Sophocles in English & essays on him
Thucydides
(f.21) On
the Life & History of Thucydides = Hobbes' Life of Thucydides
(f.21-A) Thucydides
translated by Lorenzo Valla = Greek text, with Valla's Latin translation,
of the Melian Dialogue and the Plataean Debate; also Valla's Preface to his
translation.
(f.21-B) Thucydides
Manuscripts Used by Poppo, Arnold, Other Old Editors = a table (by Karl
Maurer at the University of Dallas) correlating the old manuscript 'sigla'
(those of Poppo and Arnold) with their modern sigla; it also shows the rough
derivation of each important MS.
Vergil:
(f.22) The Vergil Project =
"resources for students, teachers and readers of Vergil"; includes
complete text in several versions, MS readings, commentary. (Full of dead
links. Ought to be a splendid site, but seems half abandoned.)
(f.23) The Aeneid = links and a newsletter
(f.24) The
Virgil Home Page
(f.25) The
Secret Life of Virgil = very interesting (even when wild) speculations by
William Harris at Middlebury about V's life and person.
(f.26) Life of Vergil = text of the ancient life
of Vergil.
(28) THEATER,
ANCIENT.
Didaskalia
= site devoted to ancient theater, and to modern productions of ancient plays;
has a not bad on-line journal "Didaskalia".
(29) VASES (GREEK)
(a) Vase
Search
(30) MISC.
(a) http://www.oeaw.ac.at/kvk/cte/main.htm
= The Classical Text Editor, i.e., software, which you are free to download,
for making critical editions, offered by the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
"The Classical Text Editor was designed to enable the scholar working on a
critical edition or on a text with commentary or translation to prepare a
camera-ready copy or an electronic publication without bothering much about
making up and page-proofs. Its features, formed in continuous discussion with
editors actually using the program, meet the practical needs of the scholar
concerning text constitution, entries to different apparatus and updating them
when the text has been changed, as well as creating and redefining sigla. The
possibility to search for manuscript constellations may be of considerable help
in detecting affiliations between manuscripts. It is the primary purpose of the
Classical Text Editor to do the automatable work which consumes so much time
and energy, and let the scholar concentrate on scientific issues."
(b) http://www.curculio.org/
= Curculio, the site of Miachel Hendry; contains much useful, interesting
stuff, including his edition (with apparatus criticus) of some poems of
Propertius, and his advice to young scholars about where to publish.
(c) Commonest
Abbreviations, Signs, Etc. Used in the Apparatus to a Classical Text = a
list by Karl Maurer at the University of Dallas.
(d) Student Translations
of Greek and Latin Verse = beautiful verse translations, by University of
Dallas students, from Pindar, Simonides, Sophocles, Homer, Propertius.
Appendix I:
LIST OF CLASSICAL JOURNALS in "1.a" above
(I print this list in its entirety, so
that it can be a little reference tool. The abbreviations are those of the
Année philologique [see above, "1.b"] and are widely used, esp. in
Europe.)
AC = L'antiquité classique, AClass =
Acta Classica, AHB = Ancient History Bulletin, AJAH = American Journal of
Ancient History, AJPh = American Journal of Philology, Akroterion, AncSoc =
Ancient Society (Leuven), AncW = Ancient World, Antichthon, Arethusa, Arion,
Athenaeum, A&R* = Atene e Roma, BICS = Bulletin of the Institute of
Classical Studies (London), C&M = Classica et Mediaevalia, CB = Classical
Bulletin, Chiron, CJ = Classical Journal, ClAnt = Classical Antiquity, CML =
Classical and Modern Literature, CPh = Classical Philology, CQ = Classical
Quarterly, CW = Classical World, ClIre = Classics Ireland, DHA = Dialogues
d'histoire ancien, Dike = Rivista di storia del diritto greco ed ellenistico
(Milan), EMC/CV = Échos du monde classique/Classical Views, Emerità = Revista
de Lingustía y Filología clásica (Madrid), Eranos, G&R = Greece & Rome,
Gerion (Madrid), Glotta, GRBS = Greek, Roman & Byzantine Studies, Habis =
Arqueología, Filología clásica (Seville University), Helios, Hermathena,
Hermes, HSPh = Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Historia, ICS = Illinois
Classical Studies, JHS = Journal of Hellenic Studies, JRS = Journal of Roman
Studies:, Klio, Ktema (Strasbourg), Labeo (Rassegna di Diritto romano, Napoli),
Latomus, LCM = Liverpool Classical Monthly, LEC = Les études classiques,
Lustrum, Maia, MD = Materiali e discussioni per l'analisi dei testi classici,
MH = Museum Helveticum, Mnemosyne, MCr = Museum Criticum (Pisa), Pallas (Revue
d'études antiques, Toulouse), PCPhS = Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological
Society, Philologus, Phoenix, Polis (Revista de ideas y formas políticas de la
antiguedad clásica), PP = Parola del passato, PSN = Petronian Society
Newsletter (Florida), QUCC = Quaderni urbinati di cultura classica, RAHAL =
Revue des Archéologues et Historiens d'Art de Louvain, Ramus, REA = Revue des
études anciennes, REG = Revue des études grecques, REL = Revue des études
latines, RFIC = Rivista di filologia, RhM = Rheinisches Museum für Philologie,
RIDA = Revue Internationale des Droits de l'Antiquité (Brussels), RPh = Revue
de philologie, RSA = Rivista storica dell'Antichità, Scholia, SCI = Scripta
Classica Israelica, SIFC = Studi italiani di filologia classica, SO = Symbolae
Osloenses, Synthesis (Universidad de La Plata, Argentina), TAPhA = Transactions
of the American Philological Association, VDI* = Vestnik Drevnii Istorii [in
Russian], WS = Wiener Studien, YClS = Yale Classical Studies, ZPE = Zeitschrift
für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, ZRG* = Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für
Rechtsgeschich
Appendix II:
CONTENTS OF THE WEB SITE "LACUS CURTIUS" (as of Nov. 2006)
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/home.html. This site made by the heroic Bill Thayer is
one the most magnificent, and has been for me the most constantly and
prodigiously useful, of all classical sites on the web. But it is such a
labyrinth that I always forget exactly what is there, and how to find this or
that. I made this more compact table of contents for myself, and give it here
in case it can help anyone else.
ROMAN
GAZETTEER, a commented
photo album of Roman towns and monuments: Rome
• Assisi
• Augusta
Zilil • Cesi
• Città
di Castello • Fossato
di Vico • Gubbio
• Massa
Martana • Mevania
• Milan
• Narni
• Ostia
• Perugia
• Pitigliano
• Rimini
• Rusellae
• Saintes
• Spello
• Spoleto
• Todi
• Trevi
• Triponzo
• 'Urvinum
Hortense' • Vetulonia
• Volubilis
. TOPICAL INDEXES: amphitheatres
• gates
• hydraulic
engineering (aqueducts and baths) • roads
• theatres
• tombs
GREEK
& LATIN TEXTS: 23
complete works from Antiquity: APPIAN:
Roman History (English); AUGUSTUS:
The Res Gestae or Monumentum Ancyranum (Latin, Greek, English); CASSIUS
DIO: Roman History (English); CATO
on Farming (Latin, English); CELSUS
on Medicine (Latin, English); CENSORINUS:
de Die natali(Latin, French); The
Excerpta Valesiana (Latin); (in progress) CLAUDIAN
(Latin, English: almost all the historical poems); (in progress) COLUMELLA
(Latin, English); FRONTINUS
on the Water Supply of Rome (Latin, English) and the
Strategemata (Latin, English); GELLIUS:
Noctes Atticae (Latin); GRATTIUS:
Cynegeticon (Latin, English); ISIDORE
of Seville (Latin); MACROBIUS:
Saturnalia (Latin); PLINY
the Elder: Natural History (Latin only); (in progress) PLUTARCH
(English: most of the Parallel Lives and some of the Moralia); POLYBIUS:
Roman Histories (English); PROCOPIUS:
Secret History and Buildings
(English); PTOLEMY:
Tetrabiblos (English); QUINTILIAN:
On the Education of an Orator (English); QUINTUS
CURTIUS: The Histories of Alexander the Great (Latin); SUETONIUS:
The Lives of the Twelve Caesars (Latin, English); VELLEIUS
Paterculus: History of Rome (Latin, English); VITRUVIUS
on Architecture (Latin, English). In progress Dionysius
of Halicarnassus (English); Historia
Augusta (Latin, English); Strabo (English).
WILLIAM
SMITH's DICTIONARY OF GREEK AND ROMAN ANTIQUITIES [11/11/06: 838 pages, 374
woodcuts, 38 photos, 5 plans ], an encyclopedic work ... illustrated with its
own woodcuts and some additional photographs... Chariots and carriages, the
theatre, circus and amphitheatre, roads, bridges, aqueducts, obelisks,
timepieces, organs, hair curlers; marriage & children, slaves, dance, salt
mines, and... more; ...special sections on law, religion, warfare, daily life,
and clothing.
A
TOPOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF ANCIENT ROME by Samuel Ball Platner (as revised
by Thomas Ashby in 1929), [11/17/06: 401 pages, 83 photos, 3 engravings] ... a
scholarly encyclopedia with hundreds of articles on the remains of antiquity
within the city of Rome... Something like 70% of it is online here; I'll
eventually do all of it.
PAGAN
& CHRISTIAN ROME by Rodolfo Lanciani, the rightly famous 19c
archaeologist and topographer [107 drawings, 16 photos, 12 maps & plans]:
splendid account of how Rome made the transition from the capital of Antiquity
to the great city of our own time. ... a mine of information on the Catacombs
and the tombs of apostles, emperors and popes... This Web edition is enhanced
with additional photos of my own, useful links, etc.
J.
B. BURY's HISTORY OF THE LATER ROMAN EMPIRE: [907pp in the print edition,
presented in 35 webpages plus indexes; 2 photos, 7 maps & plans]:
"Generally acknowledged to be Professor Bury's masterpiece, this panoramic
and painstakingly accurate reconstruction of the Western and Byzantine Roman
Empire covers the period from 395 A.D., the death of Theodosius I, to 565 A.D.,
the death of Justinian."
ANCIENT
AND EARLY MEDIEVAL TOPOGRAPHICAL TEXTS onsite. For now, just three:
Ptolemy's Geography, the Regionaries (Notitia, Curiosum, and Appendices) and
the Ordo Benedicti.
ROMAN
BRITAIN now includes three books: John Ward's The Roman Era in Britain, a
general survey with many excellent illustrations (especially of jewelry, combs,
keys, and similar objects); Thomas Codrington's Roman Roads in Britain, long
the standard authority in its field; and a regional resource, George Witts's
Archaeological Handbook of Gloucestershire.
The ANTIQUARY's
SHOEBOX [10/11/06: 45 articles]. Scholarly journals are a treasure-trove of
interesting and very varied stuff; not all of it by any means is that difficult
to grasp. This is my collection of public-domain articles from them; like most
shoeboxes, it accumulates scraps over time, as I discover items that catch my
fancy.
LATIN
INSCRIPTIONS SITE on three levels: (a) for the expert: a bare listing with
transcriptions of 200 inscriptions; (b) for the student: a selection of 28
photographed inscriptions, sorted by level of difficulty, solutions presented
separately; (c) for the surfer: a topical and a geographical index to various
webpages.
ROMAN
ATLAS [29 maps]: a collection of 19c maps covering most of the Roman world,
some of them indexed with ancient and modern placenames, longitude and latitude
(both modern and ancient according to Ptolemy), bibliographical refs, web
links, etc.
CATALOGUE
OF ROMAN UMBRIA: eventually, I hope to create similar catalogues of other
parts of the Roman Empire.
THE
TOMB OF MAUSOLUS, by W. R. Lethaby: not Roman at all, but who's quibbling?
An in-depth look at one of the wonders of the ancient world, the Mausoleum of
Halicarnassus: and an attempt at reconstructing it.