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General

• Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - A Selection - Lacus Curtius
  scroll down to the chart
• Ancient Rome: Images and Pictures
• Classics Technology Center Quick Start
• Daily Roman Life
• Johnston's Private Life of the Romans
• Forum Romanum - Main Page
• Glossary for Private Life of the Romans
• Rich Hamper's Rth Dimension - Ancient Rome
• Scanning the fragments of the Forma Urbis Romae
  Stanford University Project

Agriculture & Land Management

• Ancient land management and Roman cadastration from UEA
• Cato - On Farming Introduction and translation
• Glossary of terms used in Roman land surveying
• Gregory Flood's Gods and Goddesses of Agriculture on About.com
• Landscape History scroll down to “Rome”
• Wine: see below

Architecture & Engineering

• Republican Roman Construction (Judith Geary)
• Buildings of Artificial Stone (Judith Geary)
• Roman Roads: see below
• Roman Aqueducts
• Frontinus on the Water Supply of Rome - Lacus Curtius
• Aqueducts of Rome under Augustus - Part One
• Aqueducts of Rome under Augustus - Part Two
• Vitruvius: The Ten Books On Architecture
  • Lacus Curtius

Calendar & Time

• Roman Calendar
  LacusCurtius: The Roman Calendar (Smith's Dictionary, 1875)
  Probably the single most complete source online.
• Horologium - Lacus Curtius

Death

• Cremation in a Roman Port Town
• Curse Tablets on this site
• Curse Tablets: Revenge on Bath Thieves by Sympathetic Magic, and more on Roman Baths

Education

• Letter Home of a Roman "University" Student (Cicero's son to Tiro)
• Plutarch: The Training of Children
• Quintilian: The Ideal Education
• Roman Educational Practices
• The Roman Writing Tablet (Smith's Dictionary) • LacusCurtius
  • Stilus
• Illustration and reconstruction of Wax Tablet and Stilus on this site

Food & Drink

• Antique Roman Dishes - Collection
• Food - Ancient/Classical - Net Links
• Food and Drink (Rich Hamper)
• Apicius
  • Apicius: De Re Coquinaria
    • The Book of Apicius, A Review
  • Yahoo!Groups Apicius
    This list is for sharing experiences in antique Roman cookery
  • Yahoo! Groups: Apicius Links
• Wine
  • Wine and Rome
  • LacusCurtius: The Vinalia (Smith's Dictionary)
  • Wine and Viticulture in Antiquity at Ancient/Classical History
  • Types of Ancient Wines
  

• Herbals & Plants
  • A Modern Herbal of Ancient Rome

Gladiators

• Roman Gladiatorial Games
• ARENA: GLADIATORIAL GAMES
• Arena and Circus - The Roman Games
• Gladiators at About.com
• Gladiator Mosaic in Bad Kreuznach on this site
• LacusCurtius: Gladiatores (Smith's Dictionary, 1875)
• Sandals, Sweat, and Swords: The Gladiator
• Ludus Gladiatoria a reeenactment group (UK)
• Castra Romana South Carolina

Law

• Roman Law at Ancient/Classical History
• Roman Law: Homepage

Life Style

• Ammianus: The Luxury of the Rich in Rome
• The Hadrianic Baths at Leptis Magna
• Ancient Roman Empire Costume Links
• Jewelry, Gold, and Silver Ornaments in the Ancient World - Ancient/Classical - Net Links
• Juvenal: Satire III: On the City of Rome
• The Roman Makeover
• Pliny the Elder: Luxury in the Use of Rings
• Pliny the Younger: The Life of a Refined Roman Gentleman
• Statius: A Roman Seaside Villa
• Strabo: The Grandeur of Rome
• ROMAN DRAMA: Early Roman Drama and Theatre

Medical & Hygiene

• Hippocrates and Galen - Ancient Medicine at About.com
• ANTIQUA MEDICINA: From Homer to Vesalius
• Galen - On the Natural Faculties temporarily unavailable
• Classicist digs deep for truth about hygiene habits of ancient Romans
• The Caduceus vs the Staff of Asclepius

Money, Weights and Measures

• Lacus Curtius: Argentarii: Bankers or Money Changers
• History of Coins on this site
• Roman Money, Weights and Measures
  Roman Weights and Measures (Rich Hamper)

Limes Museum in Aalen, Germany

Names

• Rome - Roman Names at Ancient/Classical History
  Roman names, abbreviations, conventions,
  and how to read lists of Romans
• Republican Roman Names (Judith Geary)
• Who was Who in Roman Times

Numerals

• Roman Numerals at Ancient/Classical History
• Roman Numerals Converter

Politics

• Cursus Honorum
• Quintus Cicero: The Roman Candidate, 64, 54 BC

Rhetoric

• Rhetoric at Ancient/Classical History

Sciene

• Pliny the Elder - Natural History (Lacus Curtius)

Slavery

• Roman Slavery - Ancient/Classical History
• Spartacus on Ancient/Classical History

Trade

• Celts, Consumerism and Caesar
  on this site

Transportation

• Roman Roads
  • How Romans built roads
  • The Roman roads in the Mediterranean region and Europe
• Romans Roads at Lacus Curtius

Travel

• Beware of the Bandits! The Perils of Land Travel in the Early Roman Empire (PDF)
• Distance and Communication in the Roman Empire
• Travelers Accounts at Ancient History Source Book
  • Greek Travelers
  • Roman Travelers
• Pausanias: Description of Greece
• Strabo
  • The Geography (Books 1-5 and 15‑17) at Lacus Curtius
  • Geography (Book 6 through 14) at Perseus

Women

• Biographies of women in the ancient world
• Diotima: Women Gender in the Ancient World
• FEMINAE ROMANAE: The Women of Ancient Rome
• Women of Rome: Private Lives and Public Personae

Pompeii

• The Pompeii Forum Project
• Last Days of Pompeii - Ancient/Classical History - Net Links
• Ancient Sources on Pompeii
• Pliny the Younger
  • Eye Witness to the Eruption of A.D 79!
  • Letter to Tacitus, 6.16
  • Letter to Tacitus, 6.20
  • Derivation of the name "Plinian"
• Maecenas: Images of Ancient Greece and Rome: Pompeii
    the same with thumbnails
• Pictures of History: Pompeii
• the little house in Pompeii (Judith Geary)
• Unguided Tour of Pompeii
  Pompeian Households: An On-line Companion