These links allow access to around 1,500 photographs, images, diagrams and maps of Roman and Greek sites and artifacts. Some of the better quality items take some time to load especially at peak times on the WWW.

GENERAL

Thesaurus of Geographic Names Worldwide Thesaurus from the Getty Information Institute. In Italy On Line A commercial site but outstanding. Broad coverage, sections on travel, books, bazaars, etc. particularly strong in providing coverage of diverse regions of Italy. Written by experts who love Italy and Rome. See especially Latium and Rome. A short wait required on most links due to art work, pictures and maps. Worth the wait. Let's Roam Italy. A Cybertrip to the home of Julius Ceaser, and Leonardo DaVinci. Non profit general site directed towards students. Includes useful find an e-mail pal who can tell you all about the country and "la dolce vita" that is life in Italy. Very interesting. Greece. Detailed maps of modern Greece from commercial site, Getting Around the Planet. Interesting. Greek Mythology Map of ACHAEANS & TROJANS from the Genealogical Guide to Greek Mythology, by Carlos Parada. See also Trojan War and The Returns of the Achaean Leaders.   Virtual Rome. Commercial Site. Very useful. In Italian. But maps of Rome useful for English speakers.   Ptolemy: the Geography Claudius Ptolemy was an astronomer and mathematician of the 2c AD, and who must apparently have worked in Alexandria between 127 and 148 AD. This site is attempting a very admirable job of presenting Ptolemy's most famous works the Almagest, a 13-book textbook of astronomy; the Tetrabiblos, a compendium of astrology; and the Geography which appears on this website. Slow downloading but worth waiting.

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PHOTOGRAPHIC COLLECTIONS

OXFORD UNIVERSITY: Faculty of Litterae Humaniores; Sub-Faculty of Ancient History. A variety of selected photo images are presented on this site, courtesy of Andrew Wickham , who retains copyright on all the images unless otherwise stated. An effort has also been made to select images that will open on the internet in a reasonable amount of time. But you may have to wait a minute or two for the image to appear.

Rome (September 1994)

Theatre of Marcellus

Baths of Caracalla

Forum Augustum

Trajan's Column and Forum

Turkey (August-September 1993)

Aspects of Roman Britain

Topoi. Greek and Roman culture. See especially new test version of database which catalogs images related to classical antiquity from many sites on the internet. Useful search engine. From Holycross. Outstanding.

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GENERAL PHOTOGRAPHIC COLLECTIONS

Learning to read Rome's ruins - Exhibit at UNC expo. Very useful site for anyone interested in the historical background to archaeological efforts to uncover ancient Rome. Useful for undergraduate and graduate students.

Photos of Roman Era Ruins in Italy. Available through the North Carolina Junior Classical League's WWW site, mainly from Rome and Pompeii.

A Visual Compendium of Roman Emperors Pictures and biographies.

Images of Ancient Rome: Images of buildings and objects from Tulane University by H. Lester.

Prehistoric Italy, Istituto Geografico De Agostini,up-to-date overview of early Italy from the Windows on Italy project.

The "Palace" of Diocletian at Split. From the EXPO at UNC. A unique presentation on a unique structure from the later Roman Empire.

SMU Excavations at Poggio Colla (Tuscany, Italy). A very interesting offering on the ruins of an Italian settlement at Rione Terra in Pozzuoli, established in the 4th Century BC, which later became a Roman colony.

Pompeii - images of buildings and objects from Tulane University. Very interesting.

Pompeii Forum Project: Home Page The Pompeii Forum Project is a collaborative research venture underway at the University of Virginia. This homepage is still under development and is included for its promise rather than the extent of its present delivery. The eventual goals of the project are to provide the first systematic documentation of the architecture and decoration of the forum, to interpret evidence as it pertains to Pompeii's urban history, and to make wider contributions to both the history of urbanism and contemporary problems of urban design."

Pompeii:House of the Faun From Professor Barbara Spaeth of Tulane University. Exciting and interesting.

L'amphitheatre d'El-Jem (Thysdrus); an overview (TUNISIA): A detailed architectural study of the design and construction of one of the most well-preserved arenas in the Roman world. The text of this presentation is in French but the pictures are well worth examining in themselves.

Roman Emperors. A Visual Compendium of Roman Emperors from the University of Arizona at Tucson, AZ

Roman Art and Architecture. An impressive offering by Professor Kathryn Andrus-Walck from the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs.

Images from History: An image archive maps, historical archives from the Gateway to World History .

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Maps

With few exceptions maps on the WWW are in the developmental stage. The best bet on the internet for IU students looking for maps of the ancient world is Britannica Online and the first item below from the University of Calgary. The remainder of the listing below includes some of the most promising sites presently under development.

A Roman Atlas. From the incomparable Bill Thayer of the University of Kansas. This site is two things brought together: a collection of maps and a database. An open-ended, indexed and hyperlinked collection of maps of the Roman Empire, together with a collection of modern maps showing ancient placenames throughout any part of the world that was once part of the Roman Empire. Still under construction, but one of a kind.

Roman Empire at its Greatest Extent. An outstanding map of the Roman Empire. Thanks to Professor J. Vanderspoel, Department of Greek, Latin and Ancient History, University of Calgary.

Maps of the Roman Empire. From the New Law for Teaching and Learning, the Dalton School.

Peoples of Ancient Italy and The Carthaginian Empire. From World Cultures at Washington State University.

Classical Atlas Project. Headed by Dr. Richard Talbert, W. R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of History and Adjunct Professor of Classics, University of North Caroline-Chapel Hill.

Atlas: Ancient Near East, Classical Greece, Rome and Roman World, Late Antiquity, etc: A collection of maps and images on Greek and Roman history, sponsored by the Oregon State System of Higher Education, the UO New Media Center, and the UO Department of History. One of the best on the WWW.

Historical Maps of the Middle East : The Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection at The University of Texas at Austin.

Alexander the Great . Routemap of his march across his empire.

Samnium - Archeologia del Molise

Maps. John Nicols, Univ. of Oregon. Gifs

Maps. OSSHE Historical and Cultural Atlas Project

Maps. Hyperhistory Online. Early civilizations, Greek Colonization, Rome and Han China, Barbarian Invasions.

Maps. Denis Bellemere. Late Antiquity, 380 AD and later.

Israel Information Service Maps and Pictures. Graphics, maps and pictures of Israel and the Middle East. These images may be copied and used by the public for non-profit purposes only.. The maps and pictures are in the GIF format, and may be viewed on-line or downloaded to your own computer.

Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. A world map which allows one to zoom in and create an outline map of any country in the world. Very useful but somewhat challenging to download.

The Virtual Tourist. Promising.

Western Mediterranean Natural Resources Greeks and Phoenicians Trade in the Roman Empire.

The Perseus Atlas Project is part of the effort by the Perseus project at Holy Cross to build an interrelated collection of hypermedia databases focused largely on classical Greece. See latest developments in Perseus' Ancient Mediterranean World Atlas. Exciting.

European Map Archive Very useful collection of area maps from OSSHE Historical and Cultural Atlas Resource, Oregon

Cultural Map of Hellas Coverage of Museums, Archaeological Sites or Monuments can be accessed by region.

Yahoo! Maps. General collection of maps and related materials on the Internet. Good for anyone interested in developing a sense of the state of the art of on-line map provision.

 

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