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Many Internet sites offer language and background resources for the classicist. Of particular interest is the webpage Useful Internet Links for AP Latin, which is helpful for the non-AP Latinist as well. Listed below are dependable sites that users of Companion will find 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 for a better understanding of the language, we have been generous with our text glosses and suggestions for resources in order to facilitate their reading.
Calendars
Calendar of
Holidays and
Festivals
Calendars Through the
Ages
The
Roman Calendar
History of the Roman
Calendar
Roman Festivals/Sacred
Days
Ovid's Fasti, poetic translation by A.S. Kline
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 Latin students:
A basic
Latin grammar
Bennett´s
New Latin
Grammar, online at Project Gutenberg or free download
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 common elementary
Latin text, it is difficult to determine what vocabulary
intermediate Latin students might be expected to know. Therefore, in addition
to offering plentiful glosses, the editors sought an accessible, reliable, and user-friendly dictionary.
For now, William Whitaker's
Latin-English Dictionary seems 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
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 metrical forms and rhetorical devices makes possible a deeper level of language
comprehension; 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)
“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
De Feminis Romanis
Forum Romanum: Corpus Scriptorum
Latinorum
Graffiti at Ostia,
Texts,
Inscriptions
The Perseus Digital Library: Greek and Roman
Materials
Vindolanda Tablets Online: a collaborative project between
Centre for the Study of
Ancient Documents and Oxford University's Academic Computing Development
Team, it is part of the Mellon Foundation's Script, Image and the
Culture of Writing in the Ancient World programan. It
consists of high-quality digital images of the Vindolanda writing-tablets
(edd. A.K. Bowman and J.D. Thomas) and supporting materials and
exercises, with searchable linked databases of texts and
images, commentaries on the texts, an illustrated guide
to the palaeography and characteristics of early Latin writing, evidence
for the physical context of the deposit at the site of the Vindolanda fort, and
for materials mentioned in the texts.
Timelines
Consuls of the Roman Republic: Keith
Fitzpatrick-Matthews
A Roman
History Timeline to Constantine: James Ruebel, Michael Arnush
Cultural Materials:
Greek Mythology
Link: a searchable guide to the Greco-Roman gods, heroes and myths by Carlos Parada
De Imperatoribus
Romanis: an online encyclopedia of Roman Emperors and their
families
Medicina Antiqua: a scholarly introduction and resource for the study of Graeco-Roman medicine, it was created by Lee Pearcy and Jason
Davies
National Latin Exam:
Materials and Texts
Ostia Antica: Harbor City of Ancient
Rome: a professional and educational resource maintained by the Internet Group Ostia under the Soprintendenza of Rome
The Perseus Digital Library: Greek and Roman
Materials
Pompeian
Households: created by Penelope M.
Allison
Roman Britain: created by Patrick Ottaway FSA
Pompeii Forum
Project: an interdisciplinary collaborative research venture sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the University of Virginia, and private contributors.
Rome: Republic to Empire: created and maintained by Barbara
McManus
The Romans: an
introduction: a companion to Antony Kamm's book of the same
name
The
Roman Empire: In the First Century:
PBS
SPQR: Encyclopaedia Romana: created and maintained by James
Grout
The Stoa Consortium: created in 1997 by Ross Scaife, Professor of
Classics, University of Kentucky, for the dissemination of
news and announcements; discussion of best
practices via discussion groups and white papers; publication of
experimental on-line projects, many subject to scholarly peer review.
Open access to networked scholarship is a bedrock principle for this
site.
Trajan's Column: the
McMaster Column of Trajan
Project
VRoma: A Virtual Community
for Teaching and Learning Classics: initially funded by a National
Endowment for the Humanities “Teaching with Technology” grant, the project is both an on-line “place,” modeled on 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. The 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
and the Family,” Alisa Tanenbaum