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Many Internet sites offer language and background resources for the classicist. Of particular interest is the expansive Latin Links, well-maintained by John Gruber-Miller.
Listed below are dependable sites that users of Companion will find handy and instructive for comprehension of Worlds passages. Since it is our pedagogical bias that intermediate-level students should be encouraged to read as much Latin in the original as possible for a better understanding of the language, we are generous with both our glosses and supplementary aids.
Calendars
Calendar of
Holidays and
Festivals
Calendars Through the
Ages
History of the Roman
Calendar
Roman Festivals/Sacred
Days
Ovid's Fasti, poetic translation by A.S. Kline
Coins:
Ancient Coins for
Education
Ancient
Coins: In Praise of the Celators!
Reading Ancient
Coins
Online Coins of the Roman Empire: the site offers a searchable database of over 43,000 types of Roman Imperial Coinage from Augustus (31 BCE) to the death of Zeno (491CE).
Grammars: Good reference grammars are welcome at any
level of language learning, but especially for intermediate Latin students:
Allen and Greenough's
New Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges at
Perseus
Allen and
Greenough's
New Latin Grammar at Dickinson College Commentaries
Bennett´s
New Latin
Grammar, online at Project Gutenberg or free download
A Minimalist Greek Grammar for Reading: Vincent Rosivach †, Fairfield University
Inscriptions:
Roman Inscriptions of Britain
Graffiti at Ostia and
Ancient Texts
The Ancient Graffiti Project A digital resource for studying the graffiti of Herculaneum and Pompeii
Latin Epigraphy: Major Web Resources: on Lacus Curtius
DATABASES OF LATIN INSCRIPTIONS:
Lexica: Since there is no common elementary
Latin text, it is difficult to determine what vocabulary
intermediate Latin students might be expected to know. Therefore, in addition
to offering plentiful glosses, Companion Editors sought an accessible, reliable, and user-friendly dictionary.
For now, William Whitaker's
Latin-English Dictionary seems the best choice. Notre Dame's Internet
version of
Whitaker´s Words
Students beyond the
intermediate level are advised to use Lewis and Short's
A Latin Dictionary at Perseus or on the Harvard site
Pollux, Archimedes Project
LOGEION: A look-up dictionary of Latin and Greek in the many reference works that make up the Perseus Classical collection. to enhance this site as both a research and a pedagogical tool, we add information based on corpus data in the right side bar, as well as references to chapters in standard textbooks.
Robertson's Words for a Modern
Age: A Dictionary of Latin and Greek Words, and English Word Lists, used in
Modern English Vocabulary
Thesaurus Linguae Latinae: Digital Open Access (A-M, O-P, Onomasticon C-D), provided by the Bavarian Academy.
Meter and Rhetoric: Understanding metrical forms and rhetorical devices makes possible a deeper level of language
comprehension; these sites instructive as well as
interesting.
Basic Guide to Latin Meter and Scansion
Dactylic Hexameter Verse
Dactylic Hexameter: the Longs and Shorts of Latin Meter: YouTube
Dactylic Hexameter: Metrical Technique: YouTube
Scansion of Latin Elegiac Couplet
Glossary of Rhetorical
Terms
Rhetorical Figures
Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric: a guide to the terms of classical and renaissance rhetoric.
Maps and
Reconstructions:
Atlas Project of Roman Aqueducts (ROMAQ): database of information and bibliographic references about Roman aqueducts (400 BC – 400AD) (review)
Digital
Atlas of the Roman Empire
Digital
Augustan Rome: online map of Augustan Rome c. 14 CE with textual commentary on the topography (review)
Digital
Roman Forum
EUR Model of Rome
Forma
Urbis Romae: Stanford University Project
ORBIS: The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World
Roman Empire
Roman
Fora
Pleiades: Roger Bagnall, Richard Talbert, Sean Gillies offer historical geographic information about the Greek and Roman world in digital form
Mosaics:
A Brief Introduction to Roman Mosaics: J. Paul Getty Museum
Roman Floor Mosaics: Stories in Stone and Glass
: Daily Art Magazine (July 25, 2022), well-written and illustrated article by Anuradha Sroha, English lit teacher, University of Delhi.
Latin Pedagogy:
Teaching Classical Languages: TCL is a peer-reviewed, online journal dedicated to exploring how we teach (and how we learn) Greek and Latin. TCL is sponsored by the Classical Association of the Middle West and South (CAMWS). For a complete list of articles, click on Back Issues.
“Grammar & CLC: Keeping it in Context,” Ginny
Lindzey
“Fluent
Latin”: a reflection on Latin: How to Read it Fluently by B.
Dexter Hoyos, Ginny
Lindzey
“Reading Proficiency in Latin Through
Expectations and Visualization,” co-authored by Donka D. Markus and
Deborah Pennell Ross, Classical World 98.1 (Fall 2004) : 79-93 (permission of the editor).
“From Slate to
Tablet PC: Using New Technologies to Teach and Learn Latin and Greek,”
Andrew Reinhard, Classical Journal Forum Online 2008.03.03
Latin Texts:
Ad Fontes Academy:
The Latin Library: digitizations of public-domain Latin reading texts with near-comprehensive coverage of literature from Ennius to Apuleius, andsome late antique, Christian, Mediaeval, and neo-Latin texts
Bibliotheca Augustana
The Bridge
: A Digital Humanities Initiative hosted at Haverford College under the direction of Bret Mulligan, it enables students and instructors to generate and access customized vocabulary lists from its database of Greek and Latin textbooks and texts.
Catullus Online: edition of the poems of Catullus with full apparatus, repertory of conjectures, and photographs of important manuscripts, (review), created by Daniel Kiss
De Feminis Romanis, now "Latin Readings on Roman Women" in the new Diotima
Forum Romanum: Corpus Scriptorum
Latinorum
Perseus Digital Library: Greek and Roman
Materials
Suda On Line (SOL): translation of and brief commentary on the Byzantine encyclopedia, the Suda (review)
Vindolanda Tablets Online: a collaborative project between
Centre for the Study of
Ancient Documents and Oxford University's Academic Computing Development
Team. It
consists of high-quality digital images of the Vindolanda writing-tablets
(edd. A.K. Bowman and J.D. Thomas) and supporting materials and
exercises, with searchable linked databases of texts and
images, commentaries on the texts, an illustrated guide
to the palaeography and characteristics of early Latin writing, evidence
for the physical context of the deposit at the site of the Vindolanda fort, and
for materials mentioned in the texts.
Timelines
Roman Consuls from 509 BCE-541 CE, by Keith
Fitzpatrick-Matthews
Timeline of Roman
History: important legal and territorial changes and political events in the Roman Kingdom, Republic, Empire and the Byzantine Empire.
Cultural Materials:
AD79: Destruction and Re-discovery: created by Peter Clements, the website contains more than 390 pages and 3,400+ photographs, maps and plans about Pompeii, Herculaneum, Stabiae, Oplontis and Boscoreale; history of the region; daily life of the people; an in-depth look at what can be seen today; links to other related sites.
De Imperatoribus
Romanis: an online encyclopedia of Roman Emperors and their
families
Engendering Roman Military Spaces:
Penelope Allison's site investigates the socio-spatial behavior inside Roman military forts in Germany during the early Empire, with a particular focus on evidence for women and children and their roles within the military domain.
Getty Villa: a searchable guide to the Greek and Latin collections at the museum in Malibu, CA, and supporting educational materials
Greek Mythology
Link: a searchable guide to the Greco-Roman gods, heroes and myths by Carlos Parada
Vicipaedia, Latin Wikipedia: a good general encyclopedia written in classical Latin with over 100,000 entries on topic ranging from Gaius Valerius Catullus to Dinosauria to The Simpsons. It is also a world-wide community of Latinists. An introduction to Vicipaedia in English can be found in The Classical Outlook (Spring 2015.86-90) by Anne Mahoney.
Medicina Antiqua: a scholarly introduction and resource for the study of Graeco-Roman medicine, it was created by Lee Pearcy and Jason
Davies
National Latin Exam:
Materials and Texts
Ostia Antica: Harbor City of Ancient
Rome: a professional and educational resource maintained by the Internet Group Ostia under the Soprintendenza of Rome
Perseus Digital Library: Greek and Roman
Materials
Pompeii Bibliography and Mapping Project:Online bibliography & web-map, seeking to link scholarly references with the physical spaces of the city, created by Eric Poehler (review)
POMPEII: A Different Perspective: Online companion to the monograph on the Via dell'Abbondanza by J.F. Stephens and A.E. Stephens (BMCR book review)
Pompeii Forum
Project: an interdisciplinary collaborative research venture sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the University of Virginia, and private contributors.
Rome: Republic to Empire: created and maintained by Barbara
McManus
The
Roman Empire: In the First Century:
PBS
SPQR: Encyclopaedia Romana: created and maintained by James
Grout
Stoa Consortium: created in 1997 by Ross Scaife, Professor of
Classics, University of Kentucky, for the dissemination of
news and announcements; discussion of best
practices via discussion groups and white papers; publication of
experimental on-line projects, many subject to scholarly peer review.
Open access to networked scholarship is a bedrock principle for this
site.
Trajan's Column: the
McMaster Column of Trajan
Project
The Uffizi Digitization Project: images of ancient sculptured artifacts
UNRV Roman History: The Empire: the United Nations of Roma Victrix seeks to provide a forum for scholars and students who study Rome in all forms; it aims to give visitors a substantial look into what Rome was.
VRoma: A Virtual Community
for Teaching and Learning Classics: initially funded by a National
Endowment for the Humanities “Teaching with Technology” grant, the project is both an on-line “place,” modeled on the ancient
city of Rome, where students and instructors can interact live, hold courses
and lectures, and share resources for the study of the ancient world, and a
collection of internet resources. The resources,
including texts, commentaries, images, maps and other materials, are accessible
in a variety of formats. The VRoma community facilitates collaborative
planning and implementation of many different types of joint projects for the
teaching and learning of Classics. Suzanne Bonefas and Barbara McManus
co-direct the project; other original VRoma directors were Steve Nimis,
Michael Arnush, and Kenny Morrell.
“Women
and the Family,” Alisa Tanenbaum