Douglas D. Schumann Library & Learning Commons: HUMN 4200: The Roman City Project: History & Geography

Roman Empire: History & Geography

Art from the Roman Provinces
This site from the Metropolitan Museum of Art describes some key characteristics of different Roman provinces.

Gale in Context: Biography This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive database of biographical information on people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas.
Encyclopedia Britannica This link opens in a new window
An authoritative source for general information on virtually any topic.

German Archaeological Institute
The German Archaeological Institute sponsors dozens of urban excavation projects around the Roman Mediterranean. Most sites have lots of information about urban history.
Kanopy Video (WIT Login): Roman Religion: Sacrifice, Augury, and Magic
A video overview of Roman religion.
Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites
This is a searchable database with basic facts about ancient cities. A bit dated, but the basic information is still quite decent and scholarly.
Roman Religion
Overview information about Roman religion. Additional links to information about the Roman Gods and cults.
VICI.org
Vici.org is the archaeological atlas of classical antiquity. It is a community driven archaeological map, inspired by and modeled after Wikipedia. Although it is crowd-sourced it has fairly accurate archaeological images and data

eBooks

The Roman Barbarian Wars: The Era of Roman Conquest by Ludwig Heinrich Dyck
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9781473877894
Publication Date: 2015
Roman Imperialism by Andrew Erskine
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9780748629053
Publication Date: 2010

Antiquity a la carte
A web-based GIS for the ancient world with most of they key layers and places already built in. It should be good for mapping various geographic and topographical features around your city.
Digital Atlas of Roman and Medieval Civilizations
The DARMC is a GIS that reveals different layers of data about places in the Roman world. It can tell you where a temple is or water source or road or fort etc.
Digital Maps of the Ancient World
This webpage has a range of maps of the ancient world including the Roman empire and Roman cities.
Orbis
This is a link to the Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World, which allows you to chart travel times between ancient sites in the Mediterranean.
Pelagios Roman Empire Map
The Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World was published in 2000 as part of an international effort to create a comprehensive map and a directory of all ancient places mentioned in sources and a selection of important archaeological sites. This map shows all the known settlements in the Roman world in detail for all regions.
Pleides: A Gazeteer and Graph of Ancient Places
Pleiades is a website that has geo-located data for hundreds of settlements in the ancient world. Pleiades publishes authoritative information about ancient places and spaces, providing unique services for finding, displaying, and reusing that information under open license.