General Links

These are some of the general sites.

Perseus Digital Library
Mirror sites:

http://perseus.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/,
http://perseus.uchicago.edu/,
http://perseus.csad.ox.ac.uk/

Forum Romanum

The website includes texts, translations, articles, and other pedagogical resources. Most important of which, the Corpus Scriptorum Latinorum, a digital library covering the entire body of Latin literature. Also included are excellent secondary texts as Johnston's Private Life of the Romans and Outlines of Roman History (under construction).

LacusCurtius

This is another major site on Roman antiquity. It took me a while to get used to the layout, but more and more, I appreciate this site. You may find the page "Using This Website Effectively" helpful. This site includes pictures of Roman and Etruscan cities and monuments, a site for teaching yourself to read Latin inscriptions, some Latin texts not included in Perseus, various maps of the Roman Empire, Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, etc. Also included is RomanSites, which another gateway.

Attalus

This will be a phenomenal web-site when it is complete. Among the ways to use this site, you can find the events which are known to have happened in a particular year or find references to an event which is described by an ancient writer.

BBC's History of Rome

This web has good in-depth articles, like "Roman Empire: The Paradox of Power". It also has timelines and short biographies of historic figures. There is multimedia (like games, virtual tours and animations) in their other history sections, but none for the Roman section I have noticed.

Ancient History from About.com

This site is useful for both beginners and experts in need of a refresher. The main page is not very user-friendly, but the contents is good, especially the Who's Who section, the maps, timelines. Some of the articles are good. The Roman history section can be directly accessed here. There is also a forum that you can interact with people interested in ancient history.

Mores

From fireengines to Roman menus, this web-site has short and interesting articles. My favourite is on how modern railroad tracks derives from two horses' rear.

Roman Imperial Forums (Capitolium)

Capitolium is the archaeological site of the Imperial Forums. It is here that the Roman civilisation began. Included is a brief History of Rome and Life in Antique Rome. Also, here are the the technical details of the works and of the archaeological finds, and a live images of the of the works in the Forums.

Who was Who in Roman Times?

This site is unique in that not only have the usual facts, it also has things like "Unnatural Deaths" and trivia. The only problem is sometimes, the web-site shows up as unavailable or poses as one where you need a password to have access. Just try back later.

Forum Antiquum

This is a 'gateway' site providing easy access to hundreds of internet resources pages for archaeology, Roman art, numismatics, museums on the web, book dealers and publishers, etc.

Internet Ancient History Sourcebook: Rome

A source book for all things dealing with Ancient Rome online.

VRoma

This is virtual community for teaching and learning classics and provides links to Roman sites, monuments, history, culture, like images in the VRoma Archive, Roman Artifacts from the David M. Robinson Collection, The Tom and Nan Riley Collection of Roman portrait sculptures. They also provide bibliographies for both General Reference Works and specific topics, e.g. Augustus.

The Atrium

This is a resource site geared toward Ancient Rome and Greece. Subjects include "This day in Ancient History," a guide to television programing with an "ancient history" bent, and detailed links to all manner of on line resources on the Bibliotheca page.

Diotima: Women & Gender in the Ancient World

This is the main web site for Diotima, which provides "Materials for The Study of Women and Gender in the Ancient World".