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Note: Some texts are buried
deep in e-archives. If title link does not work, click source.
Republican Rome
Paul Halsall's extensive collection of academic
qualities web resources relating to all aspects of ancient Roman society &
culture thru the 2nd c. CE .
Clickable cyber-version of the time chart used
by pagan Romans complete with instructions for finding auspicious information
on religious festivals & secular activities.
Learning module in Richard Hooker's
cyber-anthology of World Cultures offers survey of early Roman history.
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Roman Empire
U of Caen's multi-lingual virtual tour
of Paul Bigot's 70 sq. meter model
of imperial Rome includes annotated aerial views of the forum,
temples of Vesta
& Jupiter
Capitolinus, the Palatine
hill, Colosseum,
Circus
Maximus, Pantheon,
& the tombs of Augustus
& Hadrian.
Mark Morford's illustrated guide to relics of
the cult of the first emperor: Augustus' Mausoleum, altar of Peace, statue,
coins & cameo.
Daniel Stevenson posts the classic 18th c.
Garth-Dryden translation of the Roman satirist's interpretation of Greek
mythology .
Benjamin Sousa presents an on-line edition of
the Latin text of the Roman satirist's masterpiece.
Companion website to PBS documentary traces the
tumultuous development of the empire
from Augustus to Trajan, presents cameos
of 1st century Latin authors, & surveys Roman social
order & lifestyle.
Jan Garrett's introduction to
stoicism (ancient & modern) features an archive of essays on stoic
history & a gateway to e-editions of stoic
classics (including Cicero, Seneca, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius).
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Tacitus |
See Internet
Classical Archive for a searchable
on-line edition of Church & Bodribb's translations of imperial
chronicler's Annals
& Histories.
See Internet
Classical Archive for a searchable
on-line edition of John Dryden's translation of the Augustan poet laureate's
epic poem.
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Mystery Religions
Richard Shand posts excerpts from ancient
sources & modern scholarship on the origins of the orgiastic cult &
its rituals of ecstatic catharsis.
From Laurel Bowman's Classical
Myth: the Ancient Sources: classical texts & images
of the god of wine (U of Victoria BC).
Ora Zehavi archives dated images of the god of
wine, his companions (satyrs, maenads & pan) & bacchanalian rites from
coins, painting & sculptures of ancient & modern artists.
E-version of David Ulansey's article for
Biblical Archaeological Review (1994) reviews evidence that the cult's appeal
was based on offering a means to transcend the cosmos.
Richard Shand's notes from modern scholarship
on the Persian cult that swept across the Roman empire.
Newcastle-on-Tyne's Museum
of Antiquities offers a multi-media virtual tour of 3rd c. CE temple of
Mithras in Hadrian's wall on the English-Scottish border.
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