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Classical Rome: Archeology, Ancient History, and Classics

Approaching the Subject

Chotomies and furcations (cuttings and forkings)

Di- and tri- and poly-chotomies

Bi- and tri- and multi-furcations

The big bubble-chart
 
 

Science and liberal arts

Science and philosophy
Hard and soft science
(Scientific method = prediction)

Archeology and anthropology

Artifacts and people
Historical and contemporary anthropology

Scientific and social anthropology
Observation and (moral) judgement
Judgement and action (Action advocates are more scientific -- they assume their actions will
    have predictable results)

Archeology and paleontology

Artifacts and "old things that exist"

Archeology and Geology

(Ground down and ground up)
Italian Geology

Volcanism and seismicity
Stone: Tuffs, lavas, pozulana, marbles, travertine,
Bricks and pottery clays

Archeology and history (and "classics")

Artifacts and written records (and "classics")

History and mythology

Real and imagined roots
Roots of Rome and of us (and of U.S.)

Origins and results

Roman results and modern results
(Roman roots and modern roots)

On-line information/research

Many on-line sites are more up-to-date than anything in libraries

A modern on-line Excavation Report: http://www.smu.edu/poggio/ Some really big sites: Anything ancient Roman -- Lacus Curtius by Bill Thayer: http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/home.html Images of Ancient Greece and Rome -- Maecenas: http://wings.buffalo.edu/AandL/Maecenas/general_contents.html Samuel Ball Platner Topo Dictionary of Ancient Rome (1929) http://efts.lib.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/eos/eos_title.pl?callnum=DG16.P72 or http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Europe/Italy/Lazio/Roma/Rome/_Texts/PLATOP*/home*.html The Smith Doctionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities

http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/secondary/SMIGRA/home.html

Quotes from "primary" and secondary sources http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/asbook09.html (Part of Paul Halsall's "Sourcebooks" site that also covers other periods and specialized subjects: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/

A short on-line survey of Ancient Roman History:

http://abacus.bates.edu/~mimber/Rciv/w1c3.lec.htm Rome, Republic to Empire (Barbara McManus)

http://www.vroma.org/~bmcmanus/romanpages.html

Ancient History at About.com http://ancienthistory.about.com/cs/rome/ and

http://ancienthistory.about.com/mlibrary.htm

Ancient Roman Architecture -- GreatBuildings http://www.greatbuildings.com/gbc/gbc_types/styles/roman.html Ancient Rome Links -- Teacher Oz http://www.teacheroz.com/romans.htm

(Part of her much bigger site that also covers other periods/topics

http://www.teacheroz.com/toc.htm )

Archnet -- European archeology by country http://archnet.asu.edu/regions/europe/country.php Diotima -- women and gender in the ancient world

http://www.stoa.org/diotima/anthology/

De Imperitoribus Romanis -- About Roman Emperors

http://www.roman-emperors.org/

Encyclopedia Mythica

http://www.pantheon.org/mythica.html

Images of Rome -- Kalervo Koskimies

http://www2.siba.fi/~kkoskim//rooma/pages/MAIN.HTM

Internet Classics Archive -- MIT Classics Dept http://classics.mit.edu/ Perseus Classics http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cache/perscoll_Greco-Roman.html Roman art and architecture

http://www.arthist.umn.edu/aict/html/ancient/romsculp.html
http://www.arthist.umn.edu/aict/html/ancient/romptg.html
http://www.arthist.umn.edu/aict/html/ancient/romrep.html
http://www.arthist.umn.edu/aict/html/ancient/romemp.html

Roman building technology and architecture http://archserve.id.ucsb.edu/AH152K/

Roman Technology

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Roman_technology

Roman Emperors -- de Imperatoribus Romanus (DIR)

http://www.roman-emperors.org/

Rome Project -- Dalton School

http://www.dalton.org/groups/rome/index.html

SPQR Encyclopedia Romana http://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/index.html Vitruvius on Architecture -- Thayer http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Vitruvius/home.html VRoma images (Barbara McManus

http://www.vroma.org/images/mcmanus_images/

 
 
 
 
 

Finding more info:
 

The Google search engine http://www.google.com/
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