WEAVING THROUGH CLASSICS WEBSITES
By Janet Fillion, Boston Latin Academy
Edited by Raymond O. Dufort, Quabbin Regional High School

                                                 1    LANGUAGE
                                                2    ARCHAELOGY
                                                3    CLASSICS TESTS AND CERTAMEN
                                                4    IMPORTANT JCL SITES
                                                5    MYTHOLOGY
                                                6    ORIGINAL SOURCES of MYTHOLOGY
                                                7    ENCYCLOPEDIC/REFERENCE SITES
                                                8    HISTORY and CULTURE
                                                9    LIFE & CULTURE, BUILDINGS, PHOTOS OF SITES
                                                10  TIME LINES
                                                11  MAPS
                                                12  ART and ARCHITECTURE
                                                13  MUSEUMS
                                                14  VASES
                                                15  MOSAICS
                                                16  ANCIENT SCULPTURE
                                                17  MODERN PAINTINGS WITH ANCIENT THEMES
                                                18  TEXTS
                                                19  LITERATURE
                                              20  EPIGRAPHY SITES
                                                21  CAMBRIDGE LATIN COURSE (CLC)

 1. LANGUAGE 

• Links to a "Latin Education": http://www.educationatlas.com/latin-language.html

• This is a digital version of Allen and Greenough's grammar book. This book is the basis of Certamen grammar questions:  http://www.hhhh.org/perseant/libellus/aides/allgre/allgre.contents.html

• A huge list of sayings with citations:    http://members.chello.se/hansdotter/show-off.html

• Another list of Latin sayings without citations:   http://www.yuni.com/library/latin.html

• list of rhetorical terms and definitions:    http://www.yuni.com/library/latin.html

• An online Latin dictionary:   http://lysy2.archives.nd.edu/cgi-bin/words.exe

• About.com's Latin info: http://latin.about.com/culture/latin/mbody.htm

• Internet Language Community: http://www.transparent.com

• Daily English Grammar Info for Latin Students: http://www.dailygrammar.com

• Linguistic studies (Cyril Babaev): http://babaev.newmail.ru

• Latin language (Thanks to Meaghan Gruber): http://babaev.newmail.ru/tree/latin.html

• Comparative Latin Grammar (M. Gruber): http://babaev.newmail.ru/archive/grammar61.html#10

• Latin I: http://campus.fortunecity.com/athena/300/index.html

• Latin Ring: http://members.tripod.com/~lingua_latnia

• Latin teaching materials at St. Louis University: http://www.slu.edu/colleges/AS/languages/classical/latin/tchmat/tchmat.html

• Glossary of Rhetorical Terms with Examples:  http://www.uky.edu/ArtsSciences/Classics/rhetoric.html

• The Latin Library at Ad Fontes Academy: http://patriot.net/~lillard/cp/latlib

• Jenney's First and Second Year Latin: http://www.tlg.uci.edu/~tlg/index/resources.html

• Latin at About.com: http://latin.about.com/education/languages/latin

 2. ARCHAELOGY

• Archeologica is an amazing site that is updated every day. There are news articles here that herald new discoveries. This is a fun site to go to periodically to learn what new treasures from the ancient world have been finally uncovered.     http://www.archaeologica.org/NewsPage.htm

• The Classical world as well as the West, the East, etc.: Ancient sculpture and how it used to look:                        http://www.eekman.com/virtual_gallery/index.shtml         

 3. CLASSICS TESTS AND CERTAMINA

• National Latin Exam practice tests and answers:  http://www.nle.org/exams.html

• SAT2 Latin: http://www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/sat/lc_two/latin/latin.html?latin

• Certamen Database (zillions of Qs & As): http://www.speakeasy.org/~bwduncan

• Medusa Exam theme and practice tests on line:   http://medusaexam.org

• The National Myth Exam (grades 7-9):  http://www.etclassics.org/NME/myth_exam.htm

• Exams and Competitions for Latin Students: Certamen Questions Bank: http:/cqb.tsx.org : National Latin Exam: http://acs.rhodes.edu/~nle : Medusa Mythology Exam: http://medusaexam.cjb.net

4. IMPORTANT JUNIOR CLASSICAL LEAGUE (JCL) SITES 

• National Junior Classical League (NJCL):    http://www.njcl.org

• NJCL contest page: find a wide range of contests to enter: http://www.njcl.org/activities/default. asp

• Massachusetts Junior Classical League:  http://massjcl.org

• The Classical History Club (Yahoo Clubs): http://www.tlg.uci.edu/~tlg/index/resources.html

 5. MYTHOLOGY 

• This is a very comprehensive Heracles site that tells every aspect of his story with lots of vase depictions of the story and other images to help. The site is on Perseus, but it is mercifully fast, not slow like the rest of Perseus.   Herakles: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/Herakles/index.html

• This has many thumbnails of Zeus, and others, on vases, modern European paintings, seals, etc. (The text is in Greek!)   If you want to see the images of the other deities, try going to the URL bar, and substitute for the name Zeus, the name of some other major Greek deity, such as Hera or Hermes:  http://www.astrologicon.org/theologia/zeus/zeus_gallery.htm

• Theoi.com is a premier myth site with top notch art on it, including the images of deities, monsters, and other mythological characters. These images all come from ancient vases, frescoes, statues, and mosaics. The compilation of JPGs on this site is unequaled anywhere that I have seen, except for the Perseus project. However, this site is infinitely quicker and thus more accessible than Perseus. To get to the art, click on Galleries. There is very extensive information on any number of subjects: http://www.theoi.com/index.html

• Greek Mythology Link is a very extensive mythology site with many nice European paintings that illustrate the various deities, etc. Maps are also included:  http://homepage.mac.com/cparada/GML/index.html

• Messagenet: an alphabetical list of people, places & things: http://messagenet.com/myths/ppt/index.html

• Loggia: some good mythological info: http://www.loggia.com/myth/gods.html

• This is the Museum of Goddess Athena. There is much information about Athena and the many stories in which she plays a part: http://www.goddess-athena.org/Museum

• Titan Genealogy: http://www.homeworkcentral.com/knowledge/vsl_files.htp?fileid=138124&tg=RELI

6. ORIGINAL SOURCES of MYTHOLOGY 

• This is the Iliad, translated by Ian Johnston:   http://www.mala.bc.ca/~johnstoi/homer/iliad_title.htm

• This is the Odyssey translated by Ian Johnston: http://www.mala.bc.ca/~johnstoi/homer/odysseytofc.htm

• This is the Theogony of Hesiod translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White:  http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/hesiod/theogony.htm

 7. ENCYCLOPEDIC/REFERENCE SITES 

• Lacus Curtius - Bill Thayer’s incredibly encyclopedic site:  http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/home.html

• This is the Livius site and Bill Thayer, author of Lacus Curtius, writes that this site has original scholarly essays, yet simply and beautifully written, on Roman political figures and institutions, and Roman Germania, illustrated with good maps and photographs as appropriate; but also on religion, chronology, various other topics. Part of an even vaster site covering the ancient civilizations of Anatolia, Carthage, Egypt, Greece, Israel, Mesopotamia, and Persia: http://www.livius.org/home.html

• This is the Livius page with a list of Roman information:  http://www.livius.org/rome.html

• This one page seems to have anything you could ever need, especially if you are looking for images. The author, Thomas K. Wukitsch, sounds like a most interesting fellow. Do read his bio! To find the goldmine of images on this site, scroll down past all the course info:  http://www.mmdtkw.org/ALRItkwPages.html

• This is the Forum Romanum of David Camden. This site has info on the Latin language, Roman history, Roman daily life, the bloodlines of over 1000 mythological characters, a large number of historical and art-historical images. There is even a grammar of Oscan and Umbrian!: http://www.forumromanum.org/index2.html

• This is another all-encompassing site: the Rome Project of the Dalton School: http://intranet.dalton.org/groups/rome/index.html

• General Research Site: http://contentville.com

• http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/home.html [LacusCurtius - Major Site on Roman Antiquity]

• http://classics.mit.edu/index.html [Classics Internet Archive]

• Electronic Reference Format: http://www.apa.org/journals/webref.html

• Online Encyclopedia of Roman Emperors: http://www.salve.edu/~romanemp/startup.htm

• Roman Numeral Converter: http://www.binary.net/dturley/js/roman.html

8. HISTORY and CULTURE 

• Rome - Republic to Empire by B. McManus - lots of Roman culture, history, etc.: http://www.vroma.org/~bmcmanus/romanpages.html

• Review of Roman history from D. Camden's Forum Romanum  http://www.forumromanum.org/history/index.html

• Tons of links to Roman info thanks to Mrs. Oz: http://www.teacheroz.com/romans.html

• Tons of links to Greek info thanks to Mrs. Oz: http://www.teacheroz.com/greeks.html

• Wonderful site with coins, displayed logically with good notes:    http://www.romancoins.info/Content.html

• Roman history site called UNRV: http://www.unrv.com/empire/roman-history.php

• This website has a tremendous list of topics all concerning ancient Greece, its wars, personalities, cities, cultures, art, mathematics, literature, philosophy: http://www.crystalinks.com/greece.html

• This a website on the Punic Wars by a Lebanese-American. He is not a classicist, per se, but he has a great deal of interest in this subject due to his own heritage. Very interesting. Enjoy!    http://phoenicia.org/punicwar.html

• Ancient and classical history: http://ancienthistory.about.com/homework/ancienthistory

• Saturnalia and Winter Solstice Celebrations: http://ancienthistory.about.com/homework/ancienthistory/cs/saturnalia/index.html

• Byzantium: Eastern Roman Empire: http://members.xoom.com/Romaioi/index.html

• The Eastern Roman Empire: http://www.thoughtline.com/byznet/index.html

• http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/asbook.html [Ancient History Sourcebook]

• http://www.cnr.edu/home/sas/araia/worlds.html [Worlds of Roman Women]

• HyperHistory Online: http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/History_n2/a.html

• The Solstice: http://www.candlegrove.com/solstice.html#open

• Roman Websites Archive: http://www.ukans.edu/history/index/europe/ancient_rome/E/Roman/RomanSites*

9. LIFE & CULTURE, BUILDINGS, PHOTOS OF SITES

•  This is the very complete Lacus Curtius site for culture:  http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/secondary/SMIGRA/home.html

• Rome Exposed: Roman Life and Culture links (marriage, death, games, houses, baths, religion, entertainment, clothing, slavery):  http://www.classicsunveiled.com/romel/html/index.html

• This History of Western Architecture has many links to Greek and Roman temples and other buildings: http://web.kyoto-inet.or.jp/org/orion/eng/hst/hist.html

• The Domus Senex Caecilius is a site with lots of house info, as well as an abundance of other interesting tidbits. It also includes online games. Lots of fun!:    http://lonestar.texas.net/~robison/sitemap.html

• Skenotheke, Images of the Ancient Stage:  http://homepage.usask.ca/~jrp638/skenotheke.html

• Ancient Musical Instruments: http://www.personal.psu.edu/wxk116/muse

• Roman Ball Games: http://www.personal.psu.edu/wxk116/romeball.html

• Roman board games:  http://www.personal.psu.edu/wxk116/roma/rbgames.html

• Ancient Writings database of Prof. Brian Harvey.  There are many very interesting writings in here such as inscriptions on a gladiator tomb or what is written on the Lapis Niger: http://www.personal.kent.edu/~bkharvey/roman/texts/texts.htm

• This page has many other resources of Prof. Brian Harvey including explanation of terms (such as quaestor), maps, Pompeiian graffiti, etc.:    http://www.personal.kent.edu/~bkharvey/roman/sources/sources.htm

• Roman Life and Culture on D. Camden's Forum Romanum -Roman Holidays (calendar): http://lonestar.texas.net/~robison/sitemap2.html

• Photos of Rome, Ostia and Pompeii by John Hauser: http://www.jhauser.us/pictures/history/Romans/index.html

• Photos of all things Roman on the Ancient Roman Picture Gallery:
  http://www.historylink101.com/ancient_rome/ancient_rome_picture_gallery.htm

• This is a photo archive of 7000 photos, mostly of ancient Italian sites, that will take a while to completely view!: http://sights.seindal.dk

• This Maecenas site has zillions of photos of buildings of Rome, Italy, and other European countries: http://wings.buffalo.edu/AandL/Maecenas/general_contents.html#Successors%20of%20Rome

• Calendar site: when you get to this site, click on the calendar button and then click on a date to find out info about it: http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/w/x/wxk116/RomanCalendar

• This is the Perseus Building Catalogue: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-in/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0039&layout=&loc=Aegina%2C%20Altar%20of%20Aphaia&query=toc

• The Roman Forum, A Reconstruction: http://library.thinkquest.org/11402/uitgelicht.html

• The Forvm Romanvm: Exploring an Ancient Market Place: http://library.thinkquest.org/11402

• Colosseum: A Virtual Walkthrough:  http://www.iei.net/%7Etryan/walk.htm

• Dead Romans: Coins, monuments, emperors and more:  http://www.iei.net/%7Etryan/deadroma.htm

• Web Resources: Ancient Rome: http://www.iei.net/%7Etryan/websites.htm

• Coins of the Early Roman Empire: http://www.iei.net/%7Etryan/coins.htm

• Online resources related to the Roman Empire: http://www.salve.edu/~romanemp/links.htm

• Roman Life:  http://members.aol.com/Donnclass/Romelife.html

• Greek Life: http://members.aol.com/Donnclass/Greeklife.html

• Forum Romanum: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/6946/rome.html

• S.P.Q.R. Online Game: http://www.cybersites.com:8080/twep/rome

• The Atrium: http://web.idirect.com/~atrium

• The Forum Romanum: Exploring an Ancient Marketplace: http://www.tlg.uci.edu/~tlg/index/resources.html

 10. TIME LINES 

• Attalus's incredibly detailed timeline, from 320-61 BCE.  A time line of Roman historical events, writers, and art and architecture: http://www.attalus.org/index.html

• Another wonderful Roman timeline:   http://www.personal.kent.edu/~bkharvey/roman/sources/repchron.htm

• Jerome Shaw’s Outline of the History of Rome, Greece and other ancient Mediterranean cultures.               
  Just click the country on the left hand side of the page:   http://www.juyayay.com/outline

• Timeline: Ancient Rome: http://www.exovedate.com/ancient_timeline_one.html

 11. MAPS 

• Series of maps on the Second Punic War: http://www.galeon.com/historical-atlas/pag1-I.htm

• Lots of wonderful maps from Wheelock:  http://www.unc.edu/awmc/mapsforstudents.html

• This is the Perseus Geographical Site Catalog: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0042;layout=;loc=Abdera;query=toc

12. ART and ARCHITECTURE 

• Overview of Western architecture including nice photos and info on major buildings in Greece & Rome: http://web.kyoto-inet.or.jp/org/orion/eng/hst/hist.html

•  Roman architecture, including lots of photos  http://harpy.uccs.edu/roman/html

• This is called the Encyclopedia Romana and it has tons of info, lots on architecture, but other stuff too:   http://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/index.html                                                                          

• This is the temple gallery on the Museum of Goddess Athena site: http://www.goddess-Athena.org/Museum/Temples/index.htm

• 137 engravings of ancient Rome by Piranesi...wow!: http://sights.seindal.dk/sight/873_Engravings_by_Piranesi.html

• 5000 years of Greek Jewelry is a marvelous compilation of ancient Mediterranean jewelry, with explanations how these pieces were made:  http://www.add.gr/jewel/elka                                                       

• This site is called History for Kids and it has a basic explanation of all of Greek art. http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/greeks/art/greekart.htm

• Perseus: A complete list of texts, in Latin and English also vases, coins, buildings, gems, sculptures: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cache/perscoll_Greco-Roman.html

13. MUSEUMS

• Greek and Roman art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York: http://www.metmuseum.org/Works_Of_Art/department.asp?dep=13

• This is the Louvre Museum site, Paris.  When you get to this site, scroll down to and click on Atlas Database.  Then, in the search bar, put in grecque. You must write in French in this bar. This should bring up nearly 4000 ancient Greek and Roman antiquities: http://www.louvre.fr/llv/oeuvres/bdd_oeuvre.jsp?bmLocale=en

• This will take you to the online tours of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.  Just scroll down to Art of the Ancient World and click on Greek Athlete, Greek Mythology, Roman Emperors, and Etruscan tomb painting etc.: http://www.mfa.org/collections/index.asp?key=37

14. VASES 

• Vase shapes explained: http://www.artfromgreece.com/vshapes.html

• Greek Vase shapes shown and described: http://mkatz.web.wesleyan.edu/vases/vase_shapes.html

• This is the Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia, and if you click on pottery, you will eventually be led to the 101 images of Greek vases: http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/fcgi-bin/db2www/browse.mac/category?selLang=English

•  The University of Melbourne in Australia: http://vm.arts.unimelb.edu.au/tours/Gvases/vaselist.htm

• The Getty Museum site, Los Angeles, lists many types of ancient vases. Click any of the choices (except Decorative Objects) if you want to see ancient pottery: http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/exploreArt?typ=2033049

• Greek Vase Catalogue on Perseus site: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgibin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0043&query=toc&layou
  t=&loc=Ferrara%2020298

15. MOSAICS

• Ancient Mosaics contains a huge number of mosaics thumbnails, most of which are from churches, but a good number from ancient Roman sites, including Pompeii: http://www.classicalmosaics.com/photo_album.htm

• A collection of mosaics from the Istanbul Mosaic Museum: http://www.isidore-of-seville.com/istanbulmosaic/myphotos.html

• This is a wonderful site with 26 mosaics from Zeugma, Turkey.  The descriptions are good, although the English is a little funny sometimes! http://www.zeugmaweb.com/zeugma/english/engoyku.htm

• This site gives history of the Zeugma area and the archaeological history as well. Many mosaics shown and described: http://www.angelfire.com/ar/atay/ZEUGMA/ZeugMain.html

• The Gaziantep Museum in Turkey: this site has 12 of the beautiful mosaics of Zeugma along with nice descriptions: http://www.gaziantepmuzesi.gov.tr/eng/zeugmamozaik1.asp

• This is a A. Bastien's personal site with her own photos of some of the Zeugma mosaics that are in the Gaziantep Museum in Turkey: http://www.pbase.com/andrys/gaziantep

• Beautiful Mosaics in N. Africa: http://www.tunisie.com/mosaiques/left.html

• A wonderful set of mosaic photos by Stephen Arnold from the Carthage and Bardo Museum in Tunisia: http://www.stoa.org/gallery/Tunisia?page=1

• This is some general information on the Bardo Museum and there are some mosaics in here. Also, good links to Roman sites in Africa: http://homepage.mac.com/melissaenderle/tunisia/bardo.html

• Wonderful photos by Galen Frysinger of some Tunisian mosaics: http://www.galenfrysinger.com/bardo_museum_tunis.htm

• 8 Mosaics at Piazza Armerina in Sicily: http://www-static.cc.gatech.edu/~giac/foto2/mosaics

• 4 pages worth of lots of mosaics from Piazza Armerina in Sicily (they can be done in a slideshow): http://community.webshots.com/album/336524121PBCixx/0

• This is the first page of several that include the 41 images of Piazza Armerina mosaics: http://www.multimedialibrary.com/FramesML/IM17/IM17Page7.asp

• Many nice mosaics by Mary Ann Sullivan from Piazza Armerina: http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/armerina/armerina.html

• An interesting explanation of the Villa Roman del Casale with its floor plan… where the Armerina mosaics come from: http://www.galenfrysinger.com/plazza_armerina_sicily.htm

 16. ANCIENT SCULPTURE 

• This is the sculpture gallery on the Museum of Goddess Athena site: http://www.goddess-athena.org/Museum/Sculptures/index.htm

• Ancient Sculpture and how it used to look: http://www.eekman.com/virtual_gallery/index.shtml

• The Slater Memorial Museum Cast Collection at the Norwich Free Academy, Connecticut: http://www.norwichfreeacademy.com/slater_museum/shows/cast/index.html

• This is the Perseus Sculpture Catalog: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0041;layout=;loc=Athens%2C%20NM%204575;query=toc

17. MODERN PAINTINGS WITH ANCIENT THEMES 

• European paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York: http://www.metmuseum.org/Works_Of_Art/department.asp?dep=11

• This is the Louvre Museum site. When you get to this site, scroll down to and click on Atlas Database. Then, in the search bar, put in peinture (You must write in French in this bar). This should bring up nearly 4000 paintings: http://www.louvre.fr/llv/oeuvres/bdd_oeuvre.jsp?bmLocale=en

• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: European Collection http://www.mfa.org/collections/search_art.asp?coll_package=12758

• The Web Gallery of Art is an amazing encyclopedia of artists and selected works. Just put an artist into the search bar (e.g.Titian) or enter a topic (e.g. Venus).  The site will play some gentle early music while you browse!: http://www.wga.hu/index1.html

• Olga's Gallery is a very extensive list of European paintings on various mythological figures. Just click on a character and look at all the different renditions of it!: http://www.abcgallery.com/mythindex.html

• This Museum of Goddess Athena is an extensive list of paintings of Athena in different stories: http://www.goddess-athena.org/Museum/Paintings/index.htm

  18. TEXTS 

• BLS Classics, notes for multiple texts: http://www.bls.org/classics/index2.htm
  Includes Catiline 1 explanations, Wheelock self tests: http://omega.cohums.ohio-state.edu/latin

• Metamorphoses of Ovid in Latin: http://www.gmu.edu/departments/fld/CLASSICS/ovid.met.html

• The Latin Library has the major authors and their works in Latin: http://www.thelatinlibrary.com

• Roman Writings, on Lacus Curtius, has many documents on the Lives of Famous Romans: http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/home.html

• This is the Forum Romanum of David Camden. Bill Thayer, author of Lacus Curtius, writes that this site has the most comprehensive gateway to Latin texts online:  http://www.forumromanum.org/literature/authors_a.html

• The Perseus Project at Tufts University: http://www.perseum.tufts.edu

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19. LITERATURE

• Mrs. Oz's site has links on myth, literature, philosophy, and history of writers: http://www.teacheroz.com/classics.htm

• Original Literature, in English, on various topics of history, etc. scroll down to Greece and Rome http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/asbook.html

• This list on the UNRV site has Roman authors, their works, and their dates:    http://www.unrv.com/culture/roman-writers.php

20. A SPECIAL EXTRA 

• Check this out.  It’s IndianaJCL’s site.  Scroll halfway down to “Multimedia First Place” and click: http://www.ijcl.org/06state/06statecon.html

20.  EPIGRAPHY SITES

• U.K. Cambridge School Classics Project: http://www.cambridgescp.com
• North American Cambridge Classics Project: http://www.cambridgelatin.org

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