ANCIENT ROME--Web Resources

 All you want to know about Ancient Rome and the Roman Empire!
I. Mega-Sites -- you could browse here all day
II. Selected Topics we've found, in chronological order by period

I. Mega-Sites for Ancient Rome on the WWW

• RomanSites Home Page
• ROMARCH (Roman Archaeology)
• The Forum Romanum
• Rome Project
• Ancient Rome
• Lacus Curtius: Into the Roman World
• Read Classical Authors online! (a mega-menu; both Greek and Latin authors; many in English translation) e.g. the Cicero, Caesar, the Res Gestae of Augustus, Stoics, Pliny the elder and Pliny the younger, Tacitus, . . .

II. Topics in Chronological Order by period

Early Italy:

• Archaeological Evidence for Early Rome/Italy, lecture by Prof. C.S. Mackay (U. of Alberta, Edmonton)

Etruscans:

• Etruscan Network
• The Etruscans (lecture by Mackay)

Origins and Early Republic:

• Traditions about Foundation and Early Kings of Rome (Mackay)
• The Later Kings (Mackay)
• Lays of Ancient Rome: "Horatius [at the bridge]" and other ballads of early Roman legends by Thomas Babington Macaulay (mid-19th century British historian)

Empire:

• Biographies of Emperors and other figures
• Augustus
 
• Augustus: Images of Power by Mark Morford
• Res Gestae Divi Augusti, Latin text

Late Antiquity and Fall of the Roman Empire:

• Priscus at the Court of Attila (primary source)
• The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (a classic of English, published 1776-; selected chapters)
• Society for Late Antiquity (a mega-site with lots of links to texts and other resources)