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  • Education

  • Weddings

  • The Army

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    Purpose

    The Vita Romana Cottidiana (Daily Life in Ancient Rome) site offers links to internet materials suitable for use in teaching about the ancient world. Teachers have selected sites with high quality information and created exercises designed to be used with internet materials.

    The pages linked to these topics contain links to internet materials on the topic and exercises for that topic.
             

     

    		      

    A Few Useful Megasites

    (Good sources of additional information, but not part of Vita Romana Cottidiana.)

  • Lacus Curtius, by Bill Thayer.
        URL: http://www.ukans.edu/history/index/europe/ancient_rome/E/Roman/home.html
        The best on the Web! An enormous, outstanding collection of links to materials on almost every possible topic. It is the parent of RomanSites.

  • VROMA: A Virtual Community for Teaching and Learning Classics, Suzanne Bonefas and Barbara McManus, Co-Directors.
        URL: http://www.vroma.org/
        The premier site for teaching classics on the Internet. Collections of materials and virtual communities. Includes Barbara McManus' site: ROME: Republic to Empire.

  • ROMEARCH: Roman Art and Archaeology, by Pedar W. Foss.
        URL: http://acad.depauw.edu/romarch/index.html
       

  • The Perseus Digital Library, Gregory Crane, Editor-in-Chief.
        URL: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/
        Extensive collection of ancient texts, images, maps, and other materials, thoroughly cross-referenced.

  • World Wide Web Sites Relating to the Ancient Mediterranean, by K. C. Hanson.
        URL: http://www.kchanson.com/LINKS/ancweb.html
        A well-organized collection of materials that cover the whole Mediterranean. Useful links to inscriptions and papyri.

  • Argos: Limited Area Search of the Ancient and Medieval Internet, by
        URL: http://argos.evansville.edu/index.htm
        A search engine that that searches for information from high quality academic sites. Do a search:

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    A resource for students and teachers, created at the Austin College Summer Institute for Foreign Languages, funded by the Sid W. Richardson Foundation of Ft. Worth, Texas. This material may be used for educational purposes but may not be sold (©2002). For information and inquiries, please contact Robert Cape (rcape@austincollege.edu).