Images
- Rome Reborn 2.2 (A website with many digital reconstructions of Rome and its buildings)
- Ara Pacis Augustae (Many images of many parts of this Augustan monument)
- Digital Roman Forum (Many digital reconstructions of the Forum Romanum in various time periods)
- Stanford Digital Forma Urbis Romae Project (Digital copy of the Severan Marble Plan of Rome)
- Trajan’s Column (Many images and discussions of Trajan’s Column)… or this more interactive one from National Geographic…. or this one too
- King’s Visualization Lab (Digital reconstructions of various ancient buildings and sites: Roman Villa at Oplontis, Roman Villa at Boscoreale, Theaters at Pompeii, a few rooms from Roman Houses, Pompey’s Theater, Roman Colchester)
- Many relationships of Zeus
- Pompeii in Pictures (Pictures of Pompeian buildings, sorted by building)
- Sanctuary of Samothrace reconstructions and 3-D walkthroughs
Maps
- Free maps from Ancient World Mapping Center
- Ian Mladjov’s Resources (Chronologies, Genealogies, and Maps)
- Interactive map of Greek Colonies through the centuries
- Omnes Viae: Roman Route Planner
- Geopedia.de (combines Bing’s maps with wikipedia articles about locations in the maps — see my post on it, with a comment from its designer)
Videos
- My YouTube channel (with videos about Latin and ancient Greece and Rome; and with playlists about Latin grammar and Classics)
- latintutorial YouTube channel (with videos about Latin grammar, Roman culture, and now some about Vergil)
- Video about lost wax casting processVideo about lost wax casting process made to accompany an exhibit about Hadrian at the Israel Museum
- CNRS: Nero’s rotating dining room
Podcasts
- University of Cincinnati Classics Podcasts (series on Pompeii, Dead Sea Scrolls, interviews with a few scholars, and various Classics topics)
- University of British Columbia, Department of Classical, Near Easter, and Religious Studies Podcasts (some on Socrates and various Classics topics)
- When in Rome (about archaeological monuments in the Roman Empire)
- The History of Ancient Greece
- Ancient Greece Declassified (including this great episode about Greek theaters, tragedy, and its performance)
Blogs about Teaching
- Library of Antiquity – Geared more towards teaching college students
- Latin for Everyone
- Todally Comprehensible Latin: A recovering grammar-translation Latin teacher’s journey into Comprehensible Input
- David Wiley’s iterating towards openness
- Mike Caulfield’s Hapgood
- Michel Feldstein and Phil Hill’s e-Literate
- EdSurge
- Standards for Classical Language Learning – Not a blog but learning standards for U.S. high school Classical language learning
Classics Blogs
- Rogue Classicism (Updates about all things Classics and Today in Ancient History)
- Blogging Pompeii (Updates about Pompeii)
- Pompeian Connections (More detailed write-ups of Pompeian things)
- Powered by Osteons (Kristina Killgrove’s blog about Osteology and Classics and Bones)
- Classics Librarian (Good links and explanations of Classics resources)
- Ancient World Online (List of open access materials)
- What’s New in Papyrology
- Greek Myth Comix
- Coins at Warwick (Regularly posted descriptions of coins)
- Hamilton College Classics Department (Lots of news updates on all things Classics)
- Pour l’amour du grec (A French blog about Greek authors)
- Oppida Imperii Romani (A Spanish blog about Roman archaeological sites, especially urban ones)
- Classical Wisdom (Regular posts to bring Classics to a wider audience) – temporarily paused
- Eidolon (A site dedicated to looking at Classics with a more modern lens)
- News outlet of Revue des Études Anciennes dedicated to ancient history and archaeology
- Minus Plato (News on Classics, modern and contemporary art)
Websites with Many Ancient Texts, Inscriptions, and Papyri
- Perseus Project
- Latin Library (Also has some handouts and references for teaching)
- ToposText (Combines texts and maps — see my post on it)
- Papyri.info
- From Trace to Text – A very cool online exhibit at the University of Michigan’s Library about papyri
- Packhard Humanities Institute – Greek Inscriptions
- Manfred Clauss – Latin Inscriptions (German website and some images of inscriptions)
- Vindolanda Tablets Online
- Roman Law Resources
- Axon, Greek Historical Inscriptions Database (in Italian)
- Digital Roman Heritage (an international research collaboration network that brings together Digital Humanities initiatives with regard to the physical, artistic and literary legacy of Rome. The main aims of this network are to share best practices, and to facilitate the digital linkage between projects from various disciplines related to the city and symbol of Rome.)
- Translated Texts for Historians e-Library (translations of texts from AD 300-800)
- L’Antiquité à la BnF (Recent research and information about the collections from the French National Library)
References about Ancient Rome
- Lacus Curtius (A site with many Latin texts, translations, and old books on Rome)
- Platner and Ashby’s A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome (1928)
- Ostia Antica (Site with detailed descriptions of many buildings within Rome’s port city)
- AD 79 (Site with detailed descriptions of many buildings and areas in Pompeii, Herculaneum, and other Bay of Naples cities)
- The Cicero Homepage
- William Johnson’s Tales of Heroes: Classical Epic about ancient epics, including the Epic of Gilgamesh, the Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Aeneid
