Lecture 1 - Rome / Lecture 2 - Economy / Lecture 3 - Family / Lecture 4 - Citizenship / Lecture 5 - Patronage / Lecture 6 - Bread and Circuses / Lecture 7 - Death and Burial / Lecture 8 - The Army / Lecture 9 - Literacy

Autumn Term

Lecture 1 - Rome, the Centre of the World

• Ancient Rome: Images and Pictures by Prof. Felix Just
• Kalervo Koskimies’ ‘Views of Rome’ image archive
• Official website for the imperial forums
• Roman baths and bathing - Barbara F. McManus, The College of New Rochelle
• Aquae Urbis Romae: the waters of the city of Rome
• The Severan Marble Plan of Rome (Forma Urbis) - Stanford Digital Forma Urbis Romae Project
• Trajan's Column: introductory essays and 500 images of the sculptures

Lecture 2 - Trade and Economy

• British Museum: terra sigillata jug; Gaulish bowl; oil lamp decorated with gladiators
• Monte Testaccio, Rome: Spanish excavations; exhibition
• Paul Tyers 'Roman amphoras in Britain'
• ' Salve lucrum' mosaic, Pompeii
• Pompeii in Pictures
• Orbis - The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World - reconstructs the time cost and financial expense associated with a wide range of different types of travel in antiquity. The model is based on a simplified version of the giant network of cities, roads, rivers and sea lanes that framed movement across the Roman Empire. It broadly reflects conditions around 200 CE but also covers a few sites and roads created in late antiquity. It includes an interactive route map, by which you can discover the fastest, cheapest or shortest connection between two locations of your choice, selecting the modes and means (here called options) of transport, and the month of the year.

Lecture 3 - Family and familia

• Paternal authority (patria potestas) - encyclopaedia article by G. Long from A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1875)
• Familial and Legal Terminology: Definitions (from Diotima)
• Roman marriage - encyclopaedia article from A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1875)
• Tomb of Aurelia Philematio: Barbara McManus picture
• Online sourcebook Lefkowitz & Fant Women's Life in Greece and Rome
• Oxyrhynchus Papyrus 744; Oxyrhynchus Papyri online

Lecture 4 – Citizens, Freed, Slaves

Lecture 5 - Patronage

• Some of Juvenal's Satires in translation
• Social class and public display (includes section on patronage) (B.F.McManus)
• Virtual tour of Trajan's Arch at Beneventum; coins commemorating alimentary scheme

Lecture 6 - Bread and Circuses

• Roman gladiatorial games (R. Dunkle, Brooklyn College); gladiatorial games (B. McManus, VROMA)
• Images of the ancient stage (J. Porter, University of Saskatchewan)
• BBC: Gladiators - Heroes of the Roman amphitheatre (Prof. K. Coleman)
• Sources on the Arena
• The Circus Maximus from Encylopaedia Romana.
• Pompeii in Pictures

Lecture 9 - Army

• Vindolanda Tablets Online
• The Roman Army: A Bibliography (Prof. John Paul Adams)
• Internet Ancient History Sourcebook: Roman Army

Lecture 10 –Literacy

• Vindolanda tablets (see seminar page)
• La Graufesenque (in French)
• Curse tablets - curse tablets in Roman Britian (CSAD); general description; with links to images (CSAD, Oxford); Mercury cult statue at Uley

Spring Term

Lectures 1-2 Art and Architecture

• VRoma image archive – see especially the directory of Barbara F. McManus
• Pompeii in Pictures 

Lecture 3 - Religions

• Ancient History Sourcebook
• Virtual Religion Index
• Sources for Roman religions

Lecture 5 – Imperialism and ‘Romanisation'

• Lepcis Magna, bilingual theatre dedicatory inscription by Annobal Rufus (Roman Africa site by John Dore, Newcastle University)

• Aquae Sulis: Roman Bath official homepage

• Fishbourne 'Roman Palace' official homepage

lecture 6 - Coinage

• Virtual Catalog of Roman Coins by Robert W. Cape, Jr., Austin College
• Ancient Roman and Greek coins FAQ – really for collectors, but works as a helpful introduction and overview.
• Coin inscriptions and the development of the idea of an emperor by Gary Brueggeman

Lectures 7-9 – Roman Literature

• Roman texts on Bill Thayer’s Lacus Curtius site
• Greek and Roman literature on the Perseus Project site (Berlin mirror site, Chicago mirror site)
• Forum Romanum index of Latin texts and translations
• The Internet Classics Archive (looks bad, but the content is good)
• Classical e-texts (focusses on historical texts)
• Primary texts for Ancient History at About.com

Of general interest:

• Website to accompany A. Kamm The Romans
• Bill Thayer's Lacus Curtius: A Gateway into the Roman World
• Internet Ancient History Sourcebook