Latin II: Roman History Pathfinder

Websites

Aqueducts

Roman Aqueduct Home Page
http://academic.bowdoin.edu/classics/research/moyer/index.shtml
A site that supports an archaeology class offered by the Classics Department at Bowdoin College.

Architecture

Maecenas: Images of Ancient Greece and Rome
http://wings.buffalo.edu/AandL/Maecenas/
This site features a retired professor's modern photographs of ancient ruins of many buildings in Greece and Rome.

Roman Architecture in the City of Rome
http://harpy.uccs.edu/images/roman/index.html
This page gives pictures of temples and information and pictures related to the Roman Forum and the Colosseum.

Baths

Secrets of Lost Empires: Roman Bath
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/lostempires/roman/
The website of the PBS Nova program Roman Bath, part of the Secrets of Lost Empires series.

Chariot Racing

The Circus: Roman Chariot Racing
http://www.vroma.org/~bmcmanus/circus.html
This page was created by Barbara F. McManus, Professor of Classics Emerita at The College of New Rochelle, to support a class about ancient Rome.

Coins

Ancient Greek and Roman Coins
http://dougsmith.ancients.info/
Gives some pictures as well as some introduction to how coinage began.

De Imperatoribus Romanis: An Online Encyclopedia of Roman Emperors
http://www.roman-emperors.org/
This site is provides biographical essays on many of the emperors of Rome, whose images are commonly found on Roman coins.

The Virtual Catalog of Roman Coins
http://vcrc.austincollege.edu/
"These pages contain images and descriptions of coins from the Early Republic through the end of the 4th century A.D. and the formal division of the Roman Empire into east and west." (http://vcrc.austincollege.edu/index.html)

Gladiators

The Roman Gladiator
http://depthome.brooklyn.cuny.edu/classics/gladiatr/index.htm
This page, from the Classics Department at Brooklyn College, provides information about gladiators and the Colosseum.