- LacusCurtius
LacusCurtius is a
website specializing inancient Rome , currently hosted on a server at theUniversity of Chicago . It went online onAugust 26 ,1997 ; in January 2008 it had "2786 pages, 690 photos, 675 drawings & engravings, 118 plans, 66 maps."The main resources to be found on it include:
* a number of Latin texts, usually in the original Latin and in English translation
* Greek texts in English translation
* "Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities "
* "Platner's Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome "
* several secondary works, mostly onRome andRoman Britain
* a photogazetteer of the Roman remains of centralItaly The parent site also includes a large American history section and a Gazetteer of Italy; the latter is somewhat of a misnomer, being almost entirely about central Italy, especially
Umbria , for which it is a useful source.The proper spelling of "LacusCurtius" is as a single
CamelCase word, with no space; the idea was to avoid polluting searches for theLacus Curtius , a different thing altogether.External links
* [http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/home.html top-level entry page]
* [http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/home.html LacusCurtius]
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