Classical Studies at Brandeis
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Classical Resources on the Web


GENERAL

Current Events in the Classics World: http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism/

Dr. J's Illustrated Guide to the Classical World: http://lilt.ilstu.edu/drjclassics/

E-Publications in the Humanities: http://www.stoa.org/

E-Resources for Classicists: http://www.tlg.uci.edu/index/resources.html

Historical Maps: http://www.culturalresources.com/Maps.html#greece

Information System for Classical Studies: http://www.gnomon.ku-eichstaett.de/Gnomon/en/Gnomon.html

Library of Congress Annotated List of Reference Websites: http://www.loc.gov/rr/main/alcove9/classics.html

Links for Archaeology and Ancient Civilizations: http://www.asor.org/outreach/links/classciv.html

Megasites on Ancient History: http://www.rebecca-east.com/megasites.html

Perseus Digital Library: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/

Rome Links: http://www.users.csbsju.edu/~mcook/hist130.html#Rome

University College London Resources for Greek and Latin: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Resources/Arts/greeklat.shtml

Virtual Community for Teaching and Learning Classics: http://www.vroma.org/

Wikipedia in Latin: http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pagina_prima

Woman and Gender in the Ancient World: http://www.stoa.org/diotima/


ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY

Classical Art & Archaeology (General)

Classical Art Review: http://shot.holycross.edu/courses/Painting/F02/review

The Classicist's Picture Gallery: http://www.unisa.ac.za/default.asp?Cmd=ViewContent&ContentID=15932

Greek Art & Archaeology

Alexander the Great Depictions: http://www.livius.org/aj-al/alexander/alexander_pic/alexander_pics.html

Ancient Greek Archaeological Sites and Museums: http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHgreece.html#Greek

Ancient Greek Cities: http://www.sikyon.com/index.html

Ancient Greek Vases: http://www.thecityreview.com/s00angv.html

Antique Iconography: http://www.educnet.education.fr/musagora/dionysos/dionysosen/iconantiq.htm

Greece and sites outside of Greece with Greek architecture: http://wings.buffalo.edu/AandL/Maecenas/general_contents.html#Greece

Greek Art: http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/g/greek.html

Greek Sculpture: http://www.teacheroz.com/greeks.html

Hellenic Ministry of Culture: http://www.culture.gr/home/welcome.html

The Metropolitan Museum of Art's New Greek Galleries: http://www.metmuseum.org/explore/Greek/greek3.htm

Roman Art & Archaeology

Flavian Portrait and Relief Sculpture: http://www.indiana.edu/~leach/c414/flavport.html

Italian City Photographs: http://impressive.net/people/gerald/2002/italy/photos.html

Julio-Claudian Portrait Sculpture: http://www.indiana.edu/~leach/c414/juliclau.html

Livia's Garden Room at Prima Porta: http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~plsoils/index2.html

Palatine Hill: http://harpy.uccs.edu/roman/html/palatine.html

Roman Architectural History: http://web.kyoto-inet.or.jp/org/orion/eng/hst/roma.html#pantheon

Roman Architecture in the City of Rome: http://harpy.uccs.edu/roman/html/romarch.html

Roman Britain: http://www.roman-britain.org /

The Roman House: http://www.vroma.org/~bmcmanus/house_sources.html

Roman Monuments: http://www.travel.it/roma/roma_pho.html

Roman Mythological Art: http://harpy.uccs.edu/roman/html/religion.html

Roman Portraits: http://harpy.uccs.edu/roman/html/ports.html


CLASSICAL ORGANIZATIONS

American Philological Association (APA): http://www.apaclassics.org/

Archaeological Institute of America: http://www.archaeological.org/

Classical Association of New England (CANE): http://www. wellesley.edu/GreekandLatin/CANE/colleges.html



HISTORY

Life in Ancient Greece

Ancient Greek Dress: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/grdr/hd_grdr.htm


Life in Ancient Rome


A Digest of the Roman World: http://www.geocities.com/richsc53/studies/

De Imperatoribus Romanis: http://www.roman-emperors.org/

Dogs in the Roman World: http://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/miscellanea/canes/canes.html

Essays on the History and Culture of Rome: http://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/notaepage.html

Forum Romanum: http://www.forumromanum.org/

Map of the Empire at its Greatest Extent: http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/%7Evandersp/Courses/maps/basicmap.html

The Roman Calendar: http://penelope.uchicago.edu/%7Egrout/encyclopaedia_romana/calendar/romancalendar.html

Roman Dress: http://www.roman-empire.net/society/soc-dress.html

Roman Maps: http://intranet.dalton.org/groups/rome/Rmaps.html

Roman Religion, Culture, and Virtues: http://www.novaroma.org/



JUST FOR FUN

Harry Potter: http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~loxias/harry_potter.htm

The News in Latin: http://www.yleradio1.fi/nuntii/id50.shtml

Roman Calculator: http://www.math.com/students/calculators_pre_ti/roman/compvterromanvs.html

Roman Trivia: http://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/miscellanea/trivia/questions.html

The Weather in Latin: http://latin.wunderground.com/


LANGUAGE and SUMMER/INTENSIVE LANGUAGE PROGRAMS

Abbreviations in Latin Inscriptions: http://asgle.classics.unc.edu/abbrev/latin/

Cambridge Latin Course: http://www.cambridgescp.com/page.php?p=clc^top^home.html

Online Community of Greek and Latin Learners and Teachers: http://www.textkit.com/

The Philadelphia Greek and Latin Institute: http://iiculture.org/lg_institute.asp

The University of Massachusetts Oxford Summer Seminar: http://www.umass.edu/oxford


LITERATURE AND MYTHOLOGY

Ancient Roman Poets: http://www.crystalinks.com/romepoets.html

The Bacchae: http://ancienthistory.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://www.cnr.edu/home/bmcmanus/bacchaebg.html

Bulfinch's Mythology: http://www.online-literature.com/bulfinch

Classical Writers Directory: http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/bl/bl_raclassicalliterature.htm

Euripides: http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/Live/Writer/Euripides.htm

Euripides: http://www.gpc.edu/%7Eshale/humanities/literature/world_literature/euripides.html

Euripides's Bacchae: http://ancienthistory.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://academic.reed.edu/humanities/110Tech/Bacchants.html

Europa Story: http://www.big.com.au/fallen/europa.html

Greek Epic and Poetry: http://www.aoidoi.org

The Greek Mythology Link: http://homepage.mac.com/cparada/GML/

The Latin Library (texts): http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/index

Lucretius: http://lucretius.biography.ms/

Women in Greek Myths: http://www.paleothea.com/



MUSEUMS AND ART COLLECTIONS

Archaeological Museum of Bologna: http://www.comune.bologna.it/museoarcheologico

The Burgon Archive Project, Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology: http://www.ashmol.ox.ac.uk/ash/amulets/burgonarchive/group2.html

The British Museum: http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/compass/index.html

The Getty Museum: http://www.getty.edu/

The Louvre: http://www.louvre.fr/llv/commun/home_flash.jsp

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hi/st_greek_and_roman_art.htm

The Met's New Greek and Roman Galleries (April 2007): http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/19/arts/20070419_MET_GRAPHIC.html

Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli: http://www.marketplace.it/museo.nazionale/museo_home.htm

The Vatican Museums: http://www.vatican.va/

Web Gallery of Art: http://www.wga.hu/index.html

Yale Art Gallery: http://artgallery.yale.edu/pages/collection/permanent/pc_ancient.html



POMPEII AND THE BAY OF NAPLES

The Architecture of Pompeii, Public Sites: http://harpy.uccs.edu/roman/html/pompeiislides.html

Ars Pompeiana: http://www.pompeii.it/ars.html

Art Survey of Pompeii: http://rubens.anu.edu.au/htdocs/laserdisk/artsurvey/bysite/00254.html

Artifacts: http://www.rebecca-east.com/artifacts.html

Images from Pompeii: http://wings.buffalo.edu/AandL/Maecenas/italy_except_rome_and_sicily/pompeii/section_contents.html

Murals: http://www.rebecca-east.com/murals.html

Pompeii Art and Architecture Gallery: http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/romans/pompeii_art_gallery_06.shtml

Pompeii Exhibition: http://www2.pompeiisites.org/database/pompei/pompei2.nsf/b4604a8b566ce010c125684d00471e00/44e5a21c4d54dfecc1256e7f00492f14!OpenDocument

Pompeii Forum Project: http://pompeii.virginia.edu/

Pompeii Official Site: http://www2.pompeiisites.org/database/pompei/pompei2.nsf?OpenDatabase

Pompeii Photographs: http://www.utexas.edu/courses/romanciv/30222housesimages.htm

Pompeii Photographs: http://wings.buffalo.edu/AandL/Maecenas/italy_except_rome_and_sicily/pompeii/thumbnails_contents.html

Pompeii Posters: http://posters.seindal.dk/search/?q=Pompeii

Tiscali Reference: http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0012512.html

Vesuvius and Wine: http://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/wine/vesuvius.html

Work and Play in Everyday Pompeii: http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/romans/daily_life_gallery_05.shtml


STUDY ABROAD AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXCAVATIONS (See also our webpage: Study Classics Abroad)

College Year in Athens: http://www.cyathens.org

The Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome (ICCS): http://www.aas.duke.edu/study_abroad/iccs/index.php

ICCS Application (PDF file): http://www.aas.duke.edu/study_abroad/iccs/iccsapp.pdf

Summer Excavations: http://www.archaeological.org/webinfo.php?page=10016

Summer Mediterranean Archaeological Field School (Boston University): http://www.bu.edu/ip/programs/spain/menorca/index.html


WEB RINGS

Sons of Homer: http://www.webring.org/cgi-bin/webring?ring=sonsofhomer&list

The Delphic Oracle: http://www.webring.org/cgi-bin/webring?ring=greekpagan&list

Cives Romani: http://www.webring.org/cgi-bin/webring?ring=civesromae;list



Thank you . . .

We are grateful to the students and former students who contributed to this page of Classical Web Resources: Chris Farrell '07, Kevin Goscinak '08, Rebecca Pynoos '05 (Pompeii and Bay of Naples), and especially, Catherine K. Baker '06 for the expansion and reorganization of the page. If you know a link you think we would like to add, please contact Janet Barry at jbarry@brandeis.edu or x6-2180.


Photograph: Terracotta Horses, sculpture, Tarquinia (Photographic Credit: Susan Bonvallet, 1994), by courtesy of the VRoma Project: http://www.vroma.org/images/bonvallet_images/bonvallet1-3.jpg.

To report broken links, please contact Janet Barry at jbarry@brandeis.edu or x6-2180.
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Department of Classical Studies, 2008.