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There are many Internet sites that offer language and background resources for the classicist. Of special interest is the webpage entitled Useful Internet Links for AP Latin, which is helpful for the non-AP Latinist as well.
Below we have collected dependable sites for resources that we know users of Companion will find both handy and instructive for comprehension of Worlds passages.
Since it is our pedagogical bias that intermediate-level students should be encouraged to read as much Latin in the original as possible in order to come to understand the language, we have been generous with our glosses and in suggesting resources that will facilitate learner reading.
Calendars
Calendar of
Holidays and
Festivals
Calendars Through the
Ages
The
Roman Calendar
History of the Roman
Calendar
Roman Festivals/Sacred
Days
Coins:
Ancient Coins for
Education
Ancient
Coins: In Praise of the Celators!
Reading Ancient
Coins
The Ruth and
Louise McCollum Memorial Collection of Ancient Coins
Grammars:
Good reference grammars are welcome at any
level of language learning, but especially for intermediate level students who
are still struggling to master forms.
A basic
Latin grammar
Bennett´s
New Latin Grammar
Allen and Greenough's
New Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges at
Perseus
Allen and
Greenough's
Latin Grammar at Project Libellus
Lexica:
Since there is no universally used elementary
Latin textbook, the authors found it difficult to ascertain what vocabulary
intermediate Latin students might be expected to know. Therefore, in addition
to offering plentiful glosses, we researched the dictionaries on the Internet
for a tool that would be accessible, reliable, and user-friendly.
William Whitaker's
Latin-English Dictionary seemed the best choice. Notre Dame's Internet
version of
Whitaker´s Words; free download version of
Whitaker´s Words (1.97 Ed) for PC or MAC;
or
Classics Technology Center.
Babylon Ltd. offers several
Latin dictionaries, among which is John Madsen's enhanced
version of Whitaker (while free, it and Babylon's software must be downloaded
for use).
Students beyond the
intermediate level are advised to use Lewis and Short at Perseus,
A Latin Dictionary, or on the Harvard site at
Pollux, Archimedes Project.
Robertson's Words for a Modern
Age: A Dictionary of Latin and Greek Words, and English Word Lists, used in
Modern English Vocabulary
Meter and Rhetoric:
Understanding of
metrical forms and rhetorical devices make possible a deeper level of language
comprehension; Latin students will find these sites instructive as well as
interesting.
Hexametrica
Glossary of Rhetorical
Terms
Reading Latin Poetry
Scansion of Poetic Meter
Maps and
Reconstructions:
Digital Roman
Forum
EUR Model
Forma
Urbis Romae: Stanford University Project
Models of Rome: Andre Caron
Roman Empire
Roman
Fora
Roman
Forum of 179 AD: Robert
Garbisch
Rome and
Environs: Antony Kamm
Oral Latin
:
SORGLL: Society for the Oral
Reading of Greek and Latin Literature
Latin
Pedagogy:
“Using Authentic Latin Poetry in Lower Level Language
Classes,” Mary
English
“Teaching Latin with a Feminist Consciousness,”
Alice Garrett
“The Art
of Reading Latin: How to Teach It,” William Gardner Hale
(1887)
Latin: How to Read
it Fluently, A Practical Manual, B.D. Hoyos
(1997).
Latin for the
21st Century: From Concept to Classroom, Richard A. LaFleur (Scott
Foresman-Addison Wesley,
1998).
“Grammar & CLC: Keeping it in Context,” Ginny
Lindzey
“Fluent
Latin”: a reflection on Latin: How to Read it Fluently by B.
Dexter Hoyos, Ginny
Lindzey
“Reading Proficiency in Latin Through
Expectations and Visualization,” co-authored by Donka D. Markus and
Deborah Pennell Ross, Classical World 98.1 (Fall 2004) : 79-93. This article
has been reprinted with the kind permission of the editor.
“Diagramming Latin
Sentences,”
Part I,
Part II, Barbara McManus
“From Slate to
Tablet PC: Using New Technologies to Teach and Learn Latin and Greek,”
Andrew Reinhard, Classical Journal Forum Online 2008.03.03
Latin Texts:
Ad Fontes Academy:
The Latin Library
Bibliotheca Augustana
Forum Romanum: Corpus Scriptorum
Latinorum
Graffiti at Ostia,
Texts,
Inscriptions
The Perseus Digital Library: Greek and Roman
Materials
The Vergil
Project
Vindolanda Tablets Online
This sophisticated site is an extraordinary teaching tool. It consists of high-quality digital images of the Vindolanda writing-tablets (edition by A.K. Bowman and J.D. Thomas) and supporting materials and exercises. The website offers fully searchable linked databases of texts and images together with commentaries on the individual texts, an illustrated guide to the palaeography and the characteristics of early Latin writing, evidence for the physical context of the deposit at the site of the Vindolanda fort, and archaeological evidence for the artifacts, places, military institutions and other items mentioned in the texts. This site, a collaborative project between the Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents and Oxford University's Academic Computing Development Team, is part of the Mellon Foundation's Script, Image and the Culture of Writing in the Ancient World program.
Timelines
Consuls of the Roman Republic: Keith
Fitzpatrick-Matthews
A Roman
History Timeline to Constantine: James Ruebel, Michael Arnush
Cultural Materials:
Greek Mythology
Link: Origin of the Gods: Carlos Parada
De Imperatoribus
Romanis: An Online Encyclopedia of Roman Rulers and their
Families
Medicina Antiqua: Lee Pearcy, Jason
Davies
National Latin Exam:
Materials and Texts
Ostia Antica: Harbor City of Ancient
Rome: Internet Group Ostia
The Perseus Digital Library: Greek and Roman
Materials
Pompeian
Households: Penelope M.
Allison
Pompeii Forum
Project
Rome: Republic to Empire: Barbara
McManus
The Romans: an
introduction: companion to Antony Kamm's book of the same
name
The
Roman Empire: In the First Century:
PBS
SPQR: Encyclopaedia Romana: James
Grout
The Stoa Consortium:
Ross Scaife et al.
Trajan's Column: The
McMaster Column of Trajan
Project
VRoma: A Virtual Community
for Teaching and Learning Classics
The VRoma Project was initially funded by a National Endowment for the Humanities “Teaching with Technology” grant. VRoma is both an on-line “place,” modeled upon the ancient city of Rome, where students and instructors can interact live, hold courses and lectures, and share resources for the study of the ancient world, and a collection of internet resources. These extendible and customizable resources, including texts, commentaries, images, maps and other materials, are accessible in a variety of formats. The VRoma community facilitates collaborative planning and implementation of many different types of joint projects for the teaching and learning of Classics. Suzanne Bonefas and Barbara McManus co-direct the project; other original VRoma directors were Steve Nimis, Michael Arnush, and Kenny Morrell.
Women in Ancient Rome at the TeacherNet
site
“Women
and the Family,” Alisa Tanenbaum
Zenobia: Resources for Teaching Race &
Ethnicity in the Classical World, Darlene Brooks Hedstrom, Judith de Luce, at
the American
Classical League site