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A Gateway to Ancient Rome

A Gateway to Ancient Rome
William Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, an encyclopedic work containing a lot of good basic information (and references to primary sources), was published in 1875: it is thus an educational resource in the public domain. I've been putting a large selection of articles from it online, often as background material for other webpages. It is illustrated with its own woodcuts and some additional photographs of my own. Chariots and carriages, the theatre, circus and amphitheatre, roads, bridges, aqueducts, obelisks, timepieces, organs, hair curlers; marriage & children, slaves, dance, salt mines, and an awful lot more; among which special sections on law, religion, warfare, daily life, and clothing.

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Ammian (Ammianus Marcellinus) The Text on LacusCurtius The English translation is by J. C. Rolfe, printed in the Loeb Classical Library edition, 1939‑1950: I followed my usual method and retyped it rather than scanning it; not only to minimize errors prior to proofreading, but as an opportunity for me to become intimately familiar with the work, an exercise which I heartily recommend. Except for that one passage, however, as of writing (early February 2008), the Latin text is still that of the unspecified edition on Forum Romanum, only a few errors being corrected, although I've already added most of the local links for chapters and sections — and all the snippets of Greek, uniformly garbled in the Forum Romanum transcription, have been restored. Further details on the technical aspects of the site layout follow the Table of Contents. The Author and the Text: Background Assessments of Rolfe's Translation Ask someone who had nothing to do with the book, however, and you can get some pretty stiff answers. J.

Antiquity ReadAnyBook.com – online reading for free. CRI/Voice, Institute - The Voice, Main Menu Latin Dictionary Online Translation LEXILOGOS dies Veneris VIII Aprilis Latin dictionary Latin Latina •Latin > English & English > Latin dictionary (Notre Dame) • Latin-English dictionary (LatDict) • Latin-English Dictionary • Latin-German dictionary • Latin-German dictionary (Auxilium) • Latin-German dictionary (Navigium) • Latin-Dutch Dictionary • Latin-Italian Dictionary • Latin-Spanish Dictionary • Latin-Estonian Dictionary • Latin-Hungarian dictionary • Latin dictionary founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary, by Charlton Lewis & Charles Short (1879) (Perseus) • Copious and critical Latin-English lexicon, founded on the Latin-German Lexicon of William Freund, by Ethan Allen Andrews (1851) • Latin dictionary for schools by Charlton Lewis (1916) • Latin-English dictionary for the use of junior students, by John White (1904) • Copious and critical English-Latin lexicon, founded on the Latin-German Lexicon of Charles Ernest Georges, by Joseph Riddle, Thomas Arnold & Charles Anthon (1864) • English-Latin lexicon • Deutsch-Latein

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