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General/Reference:
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 Valuable search engine for the
ancient and medieval worlds. Argos is the first
peer-reviewed, limited area search engine (LASE) on
the World-Wide Web. Argos was designed by Managing
Editor, Anthony F. Beavers, and Technical Director,
Hiten Sonpal, at the University of Evansville during
the Summer of 1996.
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Library
of Congress One of
the world's great resources for catalog info. Covers
materials in 470 languages and in all formats,
including print, microforms, computer files,
photographs, and graphic arts, manuscripts, music
scores and sound recordings, and atlases and charts.
Among valuable search features see Search
the catalog for
bibliographies or Search
Library of Congress for Web Pages and Gopher Menus.
See also Research
and Reference. For
useful information on state of the art of digital
libraries see National
Digital Library Project and Digital
Library Resources and Projects.
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William Strunk, Jr. classic
Elements
of Style now
available on-line
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Grammar
and Style Notes -
Miscellany of grammatical rules and explanations,
comments on style, and suggestions on usage. Created
by Jack Lynch a Ph.D. candidate in English literature
at the University of Pennsylvania. Very useful.
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- On-Line
Grammars.
Comprehensive.
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Research
It. Useful and
interesting collection of dictionaries, translators,
and search engines.
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Legal
Dictionary. Plain
language basic dictionary from the World Wide Legal
Information Association.
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Bartlett's
Quotations
Familiar quotations: a collection of passages,
phrases, and proverbs traced to their sources in
ancient and modern literature. By John Bartlett... 9th
edition, 1901.
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Virtual
Reference Deck. A
first-class shelf of basic reference sources from
Purdue University Libraries.
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Webster's
Dictionary from
Carnegie-Mellon University.
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- Roget's
Internet Thesaurus
Search for a synonym
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- Wordsmyth
English Dictionary-Thesaurus One of a kind. Very useful.
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- Internet citations:
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Citing
Electronic Information in History Papers by Maurice Crouse, Department of History,
The University of Memphis. The definitive work on Electronic
Citations.
Li and Crane's Electronic
styles: A Handbook for citing electronic information
(1996), by Information
Today, Inc.
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- Indexes/Misc
Research
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- Whats's
New on Selected Classic WWW Sites: Maintained by Bruce Fraser (University
of Cambridge Classics Faculty), very useful.
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- What's
News. News Reports
pertaining to classical literature, history, and archaeology
from theTimes
and Sunday
Times. Also maintained by
Bruce Fraser (University of Cambridge Classics Faculty), very
useful.
Lexica
and search engines for
on-line resources created by Ross Scaife as part of the
Vroma
Project . A virtual
community for the teaching of the classics funded by a $190,000
grant from the Teaching with Technology Program of the National
Endowment for the Humanities. Under development but worth
examining as it evolves.
- Internet
Searching Strategies.
From Rice University.
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- Search
250 WWW search services
in all areas. Including Arts, Business, Computers,
Directories, Education, Employment, Entertainment , Finance,
Government, Health , Housing, Legal, News, People, Politics,
Reference, Science, Shopping, Sports, Travel, Usenet, Web,
etc...
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- CyberTimes
Navigator from the New
York Times
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- WWW
Virtual Library from
Indiana Univ School of Law. Useful.
Searchable
News Archives
Worldwide. Incomplete but very useful.
Electronic
Newstand.
Search 2,000
journals
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Ancient
Resources:
ABZU
AUTHOR INDEX This is an author
index to resources relevant to the study and presentation of the
Ancient Near East. It includes, in general, only documents for
which a human author is listed. A number of other resources, where
authorship is less clear can be found in the Project Index.
The Online
Medieval and Classical Library
(OMACL) is a collection of some of the most important literary
works of Classical and Medieval civilization.
Internet
Classics Archive, an
award-winning, searchable collection of almost 400 classical Greek
and Roman texts (in English translation) with user-provided
commentary.
The Electronic
Text Center at the University
of Virginia combines an on-line archive of thousands of
SGML-encoded electronic texts (some of which are publicly
available) with a library-based Center housing hardware and
software suitable for the creation and analysis of text.
Oxford University's Centre
for the Study of Ancient Documents was established in 1995 under the auspices of
the Faculty of Literae Humaniores to provide a focus for the study
of ancient documents in Oxford. Although the concentration of the
Centre's activities is within Oxford, it is hoped that it will
develop into a national and international centre that will attract
and be of interest to scholars from other institutions. To this
end the Centre's activities and resources are progressively being
made publicly available through this WWW site. Impressive.
CETH (Center for Electronic Texts in the
Humanities)
Maintains listings of and WWW links to centers in universities and
research facilities that hold collections of electronic texts with
access to the community, and that have some kind of training
available for text analysis software. Also includes certain
archives and humanities computing centers.
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- Electronic
Resources for Classicists, the
Second Generation. By Maria C. Pantelia, University of California,
Irvine.
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- Classical
Texts and Resources. From J.
Ruebel, Classical Studies Program, Iowa State University, Ames,
IA
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- Georgetown A directory of electronic text projects in the
humanities. The catalogs are available by language and
subject.
Latin
Library. George Mason
University possibly the largest collection of texts in Latin on
the Net, comprehensive and useful.
Eris
Project Intended to produce
translated electronic versions of major works of literature. Eris
now has (at least) Aeschylus, Aesop, Plotinus, Plutarch,
Sophocles, Tacitus, Thucydides, and Vergil.
Oxford
University Archive Greek and
Latin texts and a few translations, with restrictions on
redistribution
Papyrus
Digitization Project. at the
University of Michigan. "During the past 100 years, scholars have
been able to reveal much about the worlds of ancient Mediterranean
cultures by translating documents that had been buried in sand
dunes, graves, and caves for up to three millennia. These texts
.... provide a fresh and intimate look at the lives of the
inhabitants of Ancient, Greek, Roman, Byzantine and Arabic Egypt
over a thousand-year period."...."The documents exist on fragments
of material called papyrus, made from the fibers of reeds that
grow in the marshes of Egypt and Sudan. Our word 'paper' is
derived from the Latin and Greek words for this material, batches
of which were preserved by the dry heat of the Egyptian
desert."
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- Catholic
Encyclopedia. Includes
useful index.
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- The
"Best of" Edward Gibbon's
Decline and Fall of the
Roman Empire. Extensive
excerpts from a masterpiece.
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- The
Roman World. From the
Western
Canon website. Includes
texts of a number of useful Roman classics,many in English, for
example, CICERO
ON THE GENRES OF RHETORIC,
translated by John F.Tinkler (c) 1995
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- The
Duke Papyrus Archive
Electronic access to texts and images covering Duke's
collection of 1,373 papyri from ancient Egypt. Includes a
collection of essays on ancient writing and on papyrus in
general.
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- Library
of Congress resources for
Greek and Roman classics.
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- Project
Libellus, an ongoing
attempt to provide a library of classical Latin (and Greek)
texts with minimal redistribution restrictions, physically
located at the University of Washington, Seattle, and currently
run by Konrad Schroder and Owen Ewald. The intent of the
project is to make available fairly good-quality texts at no
cost; it is not to provide guaranteed top quality texts.
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On-Line
Journals in Ancient History/Archaeology
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journals that electronically publish all or a substantial part of
their publication, additional suggestions appreciated (email:
chwillia@historyrome.com).
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AHB: The Ancient History Bulletin,
headquartered at the University of Calgary, Canada, provides a
forum for scholarly discussion in Ancient History and in the
ancillary fields of epigraphy, papyrology and numismatics in
the following languages of publication: English, French,
German, Italian, Spanish. Appears four times a year.
AJA American Journal of Archaeology published
by the Archaeological Institute of America and headquartered at
the University of Michigan. Website provides (a) the Tables of
Contents and Books Received lists of forthcoming issues of the
journal, and (b) a periodically updated consolidated backlist
of all books received by the journal since 1990. Very
useful.
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- Arachnion: A Journal of Ancient Literature and
History on the Web edited by Maurizio Lana and Emanuele
Narducci. The Journal is distributed by the host of CISI -
Università degli Studi di Torino - Via Sant'Ottavio 20-
10124 Torino.
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- ARCHEO: An Italian magazine which provides very useful
and up-to-date reports on discoveries and work in Roman art and
archaeology.
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- Archaeology: A high-quality glossy published by the
Archaeological Institute of America (AIA)-- the oldest and largest
archaeological organization in North America, with more than
10,000 members around the world. Dedicated to the encouragement
and support of archaeological research and publication and to the
protection of the world's cultural heritage for more than a
century. Members of the Institute have conducted valuable
fieldwork in Africa, Asia, Europe, and North and South America.
The AIA has further promoted archaeological studies by founding
research centers and schools in seven countries and maintains
close relations with these institutions, including the American
School of Classical Studies at Athens, the School of Classical
Studies at the American Academy in Rome, and others. Includes news
briefs on work in progress, highlights of the printed version of
the magazine, color photographs, many links to archaeological web
sites.
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- Arethusa. Martha Malamud, Editor. The Johns Hopkins
University Press. In its twenty-ninth year, this distinguished
journal of classics is known for publishing original literary and
cultural studies that combine contemporary theoretical
perspectives with traditional philological approaches.
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- Athena
Review is published four times
a year. Covers archaeology, history, and exploration. The
electronic edition is an abbreviated version of the printed
journal. Recent issues are particularly useful on Roman
Britain.
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- British
Archaeology. A highly
respected magazine produced by the Council for British Archaeology
which provides a number of issues online together with a
sophisticated search feature. Regular features and essays of
interest to Roman historians.
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- Bryn
Mawr Classical Review. An
internet publication published by Richard Hamilton, Paul Shorey
Professor of Greek (Bryn Mawr College), and James J. O'Donnell,
Professor of Classical Studies (University of Pennsylvania). The
BMCR archives comprise several hundred `article' files. In
addition the site includes a very useful search feature which
searches by author, title of book reviewed, and/or author of
review.
- Classics
Ireland Journal of the
Classical Association of Ireland, has already been issued in
traditional form but is now available over the network. It
contains articles on history, drama, archaeology, teaching
classics etc. Topics range from the problems and delights of
teaching Classics, of meeting gods and God, Plato's dreams,
Irish archaeologists in Crete, sex in Athens, ancient explorers
and what Greeks thought when they first visited Rome.
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- Current
Archaeology. Presents a
selection of some of the outstanding recent article published
in Current Archaeology, Britain's leading archaeological
magazine.
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- Didaskalia:
Ancient Theater Today.
Publication on Greek and Roman drama, dance and music, as they
are performed today. Includes a very useful search feature.
University of Warwick.
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- Electronic
Antiquity: Communicating the Classics. University of Tasmania, Australia
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- Forum
Archaeologiae: Zeitschrift
für klassische Archäologie. German and
English.
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- Find
Law University Law Review
Project including Full Text Search of Law Journals on the Net
from the
- Coalition
of Online Journals. See
also Law
Crawler, for a search
through the entire web.
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- Histos, The New Electronic Journal of Ancient
Historiography, based at the The University of Durham, covers the
historiographical texts of Greece and Rome; Byzantine
historiography; the historiography of other ancient cultures;
ancient biography; the influence of historiography and biography
on other literary genres; precursors of historiography and
biography; modern theory relevant to the study of historiography;
and indeed ancient use of non-literary media for the
representation of the past. The focus is more on the historical
texts and media than on the historical problems for which those
texts and media are sources, though the emphasis varies. Reader
responses are encouraged and will also be published. HISTOS will
also provide space for reviews, news about relevant conferences
and research projects, and readers' queries. HISTOS also appears
annually in a fully-edited hard-copy format for libraries and
individuals.
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Archaeology Plans to become
one of the world's archaeological journals of record. The aim is
to present the results of archaeological research in a readable
manner and yet make it possible for readers to explore the data
upon which conclusions are based. A high quality production. You
must register to read the full papers, but registration is
presently free.
Joint
Association of Classical Teachers (JACT) Dedicated to the proposition that "
Latin and Greek aren't dead and buried yet!" The Joint Association
of Classical Teachers (JACT)--headquarters in the UK--is concerned
with promoting the use of modern technology and new initiatives in
Classic. Useful and interesting.
Journal of
Field Archaeology. Published
by Boston University. Includes many useful and exciting
links.
Journal
of Material Culture. A new
interdisciplinary journal designed to cater for the increasing
interest in material culture studies. It is concerned with the
relationship between artifacts and social relations irrespective
of time and place and aims to systematically explore the linkage
between the construction of social identities and the production
and use of material culture. A good source of new ideas for
ancient historians.
Journal
of Roman Archaeology A highly
regarded international journal printing contributions in English,
French, German, Italian, and Spanish; specializing in synthetic
articles and in long reviews. General editor and publisher, J.H.
Humphrey of the University of Michigan.
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- Journal
of Roman Military Equipment Studies. A planned expansion of its online services is
expected anytime.
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- The
Journal of World Anthroplogy.
An electronic journal dedicated to scholarship in all fields of
anthropology, and publishes articles on academic research, matters
of theory and methodology, and the education of the public, as
well as book, software and film reviews.
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- NECJ: New England Classical Journal
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- New
Jour. Provides a guide and
an archive with links for all new journals and newsletters
available on the Internet with search feature. The listowners
are Ann Shumelda Okerson (Yale University) and James
J. O'Donnell (University of
Pennsylvania). One of a kind item, indispensable.
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ITALIAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL BULLETIN. An internet publication in both Italian
and English edited by Prof. Antonio Guerreschi, Dipartimento di
Scienze Geologiche e Paleontologiche, Corso Ercole I d'Este n.
32, 44100 FERRARA - ITALY. Founded to provide an easy and quick
exchange of information among archaeologists working on Italy
between the Palaeolithic and the Iron Age. The bulletin has
more than fulfilled its purpose. Among it successes to date
have been a report on the Chauvet Cave at Vallon-Pont-d'Arc,
Ardèche one month after its discovery on the 25th of
December 1994. In the near future it is planned to expand the
bulletin by the addition of a more complex publication
containing full papers on items of interest.
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- Online
Archaeology. In the near
future we hope to launch Online Archaeology as a formal
refereed electronic publication, with the aim of promoting
rapid dissemination of speculative ideas about archaeology.
Promising.
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- Oxford
Journal of Archaelogy.
Edited by Sir John Boardman, Lincoln Professor Emeritus of
Classical
- Archaeology, and Barry Cunliffe,
Professor of European Archaeology, and Andrew Sherratt, Assistant
Keeper, Ashmolean Museum, all from the University of Oxford,
UK
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- Pomoerium. Studii et commentarii ad orbem classicum
spectantia.
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- Retiarius:
Commentarii Periodici Latini.
Published only in Latin once a year on the WWW by the University
of Kentucky. Focusses on the study of Latin language and
literature from the end of the Roman empire to the present
day.
Tables
of Contents of Journals of Interest to Classicists (TOCS-IN)
archives Included the tables
of contents of over 150 journals of interest to classicists with
very useful search capability.
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General
Sources:
American
Society of Papyrologists. Useful
listing of links to collections on Papyrology.
Bibliothek
der Universität Konstanz.
Karsten Wilkens of Konstanz offers an excellent and useful
Periodicals List. German.
Revues
électroniques. Useful
listing of journals and newsletters on the WWW. French.
Gnomon
Online transfers some of the
advantages of the Gnomon Bibliographische Datenbank to the Internet.
The heart of the system is the rather detailed thesaurus; you may
download this thesaurus under the thesaurus option to get familiar
with the more than 4000 terms. Ancient authors are spelled in
latinized form.
History
Section of the WWW
Virtual Library Project started
at CERN in 1991 by Tim Berners-Lee to keep track of the development
of the World Wide Web. In 1993 the History section of the Virtual
Library project was assigned to Dr. Lynn H. Nelson of the University
of Kansas. Varied, includes useful reference books.
Voice
of the Shuttle: Archaeology Page The "Voice of the Shuttle: Web Page for
Humanities Research" woven by Alan Liu. A meta-index guide to
archaeological resources on the web focusing on general resources,
archaeological sites, projects and Musueums, historical preservation,
journals, departments and programs, course syllabi and teaching
resources, listservers and newsgroups, and conferences and call for
papers.
Bibliotheca
Classica Selecta (BCS). An
'introduction' to bibliography in classics and ancient history for
undergraduates, by Jean-Marie Hannick of the University of Louvain
and Jacques Poucet of the University of Louvain and the
'facultés universitaires Saint-Louis de Bruxelles'. The web
version is inspired by a published bibliography, regularly revised
and now in its fourth edition.
Getting
Started on the Internet. A
particularly well-thought out site by Drs. Koen Verboven at the
Department of Archaeology and Ancient History at the University of
Ghent.
Internet
resources for the study of the Ancient World, by Alessandro Cristofori, Dipartimento di
Storia Antica, Bologna. A guide to new information resources for
the study of the ancient world. Includes descriptions and links to
sites.
- Internet
Ancient History Resource Guide. Maintained by Drs. Koen VERBOVEN,
University of Ghent. [E-mail: KOEN.VERBOVEN@rug.ac.be] A guide
for scholars and students of the Ancient (Greek and Roman)
World. Well thought out. Best item of its kind on the
WWW.
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- Katholische
Universität Eichstätt. Lehrstuhl für Alte Geschichte.
Online-Publikationen
THE
ROMULUS PROJECT at Middlebury
College. An electronic library of Latin literature with virtual
commentary which is designed to provide electronic editions of
out-of-print and short-and medium-run academic publications,
whether student oriented or written for scholarly purposes. (for
full description see
Romulus Project: An Introduction). Exciting and promising.
Scholarly
Journals Distributed Via the World Wide Web. A very useful listing developed by the
libraries at the University of Houston.
The New
Jour. An electronic periodical
geared to providing up-to-date information on journals and
newsletters on all topics available on the Internet. Includes a
very useful search feature of archives of such items.
Vroma
Project. A virtual community
for the teaching of the classics funded by a $190,000 grant from
the Teaching with Technology Program of the National Endowment for
the Humanities. Under development but worth examining as it
evolves. Includes a collection of lexica
and search engines for many
on-line resources, created by Ross Scaife. Run a sample "live"
session illustrated here. Exciting.
Cambridge
University. Faculty of
Classics. Links to general resources in Classics. By far the best
and most professional general site on the web. See especially
What's
New on Some Classical Websites, one of a kind.
The
European Ethnohistory Database. Provides information on the movements and
locations of 891 ethnic units throughout Europe that traces the
history of ethnic groups, their affinities, and languages.
Compiled by Dr. Robert R. Sokal and his colleagues at the Ecology
and Evolution Graduate Program, State University of New York at
Stony Brook.
Roman
Sites by Bill Thayer. Provides
an essential listing of over 1,000 links.
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Asclepion devoted to the study
of ancient medicine by Professor Nancy Demand at Indiana
University Bloomington.
James
J. O'Donnell. An essential
site by a Professor of Classics at the University of Pennyslvania,
one of the leading pioneers in the use of the internet in
publishing and teaching. Provides up-to-date news on the world of
electronic publications especially in the area of the Classics.
Many invaluable articles on teaching with electronic sources and
one-of-a-kind links to other similar sources. Essential for anyone
interested in the use of the Internet in electronic publishing and
the classroom
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Last updated: 20 October 1999
Comments: chwillia@historyrome.com)
Copyright Callie Williamson