HIST 4100 – 01/02 – ONLINE: Ancient World Civilizations

Contains historical timelines and over 30,000 links to translated Greek and Latin authors on the web.

Historical and literary texts from ancient Rome and the Roman world.

Provides in English translations of 441 works of classical literature by 59 different authors.

Covers the history, literature and culture of the Greco-Roman world.

A series of apps and videos that present individual tours of the city, including, for example, the Roman Forum, the Colosseum, the imperial fora, the imperial palace, the Pantheon, and the entire city seen from the air.

This article by Lauren E. Cowles looks at the various social uses of killing as entertainment in ancient Rome.

Provides a biography and an explication of Marcus Aurelius' Stoic philosophy.

Examines the 53-thousand mile network of highways that connected Rome to its empire (45 mins).

Tells how gladiatorial combat began as human sacrifice during funeral rites for wealthy families, but developed over time into the bloody spectacle that filled the Colosseum (48 mins).

When Augustus died in 14 A.D., the Roman empire stood at a crossroads. Would its systematic expansion and political stability continue, or would it revert to chaos? (55 mins).

This program profiles Augustus Caesar who, through cunning, wealth, and military might, transformed the title of "Imperator" into a focal point of unprecedented power (55 min).

Recounts the period in which the empire descended yet again into civil war, as generals fought each other for the throne while Italy struggled to cope with the disaster of Pompeii (55 mins)..

In the 3rd century BCE, Hannibal invades Italy and brings Rome to the brink of defeat (26 mins).

Chronicles Rome's spectacular structural history from the rise of Julius Caesar in 55 BC to the Empire's eventual collapse in the 6th century AD.

Profiles Aurelian, an emperor who quelled civil war, defeated barbarian invaders, and reunified the divided Roman Empire, only to be assassinated (45 mins).

Follows the career of one of its finest emperors, Vespasian, from his childhood to his death in 79 AD.

Gregory Aldrete traces the struggle for the domination of Rome after the death of Julius Caesar (32 mins).

Gregory Aldrete examines both the questions and the debates that swirl around the fall of the Roman Empire (29 mins).

A six-part series on the emeperors Julius Caesar, Augustus, Nero, Hadrian, Constantine, and Justinian (50 mins each).

Explores the century that followed Rome's Golden Age as the empire suffered through crises that brought it to the brink of collapse, staged a near-miraculous and unexpected recovery, and underwent an even-more surprising transformation to Christianity (32 mins).

Gregory Aldrete follows the fortunes of the empire during the two centuries following Augustus and Tiberius (29 mins).

Focuses on several uniquely Roman myths about the empire's founding, including the lives of the brothers Romulus and Remus and the abduction of the Sabine women (33 mins).

Follow the itineraries, which connected Rome to Iberia (Spain) and ancient Gaul (France) as a Celtic gladiator guides us through Nimes, Orange, Tarragona and more (24 mins).

How the series of conflicts with Rome's burgeoning Mediterranean rival, the city-state of Carthage, were both the closest Rome ever came to total defeat and the stepping-stone to its ultimate success (32 mins).

Archaeologists and engineers team up to recreate ancient Roman techniques to build a 25-foot lifting machine and trap door system capable of releasing a wolf into the Colosseum's arena for the first time in 1,500 years (53 mins).

A 4-part intellectual and visual guide to the new and controversial historical evidence which challenges familiar assumptions about the life of Jesus and the epic rise of Christianity (240 mins).

A 23-part series of lectures by Prof. Kleiner of Yale University.

Examines the composition, weaponry, training, tactics, and engineering accomplishments of the ancient Roman legions (44 mins).