LibGuides: HIST 4304: Riddles of Rome: Websites

General Historical Overviews of Rome

Ancient Rome Live

This free learning platform offers original, accessible content focused on Roman people, places, and the empire, making it ideal for both educators and students exploring historical overviews, visualizations, and interactive resources.
Roman Empire.net

Dedicated to teaching about the history, cultural legacy, and influence of the Roman Empire, this site provides extensive information and multimedia resources suitable for classroom instruction and independent learning.
American Institute of Roman Culture

Offering world-class educational materials, virtual experiences, and curated guides, this site helps learners and teachers discover Roman history across a variety of topics and formats

Additional Websites

Gazetteer of the Roman World
HyperHistory: World History
HyperHistory is an expanding scientific project presenting 3,000 years of world history with an interactive combination of synchronoptic lifelines, timelines, and maps.
The Interactive Nolli Map of Rome Website
"The Nolli Web Site presents the 1748 Nolli map of Rome as a dynamic, interactive, hands-on tool. The public now has access to cataloged information about the map in both written and graphical form." --nolli.uoregon.edu

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"The Nolli map is an ichnographic plan map of the city, as opposed to a bird’s eye perspective, which was the dominant cartographic representation style prevalent before his work. Not only was Nolli one of the first people to construct an iconographic map of Rome, his unique perspective has been copied ever since. " --nolli.uoregon.edu
Internet Ancient History Sourcebook/ROME
The Jewish Roman world of Jesus
Perseus Digital Library
"Digital library of resources for the study of the ancient world. Covers the Archaic and Classical Greek world, with Latin text, Renaissance materials, and Papyri." --Librarian's Index to the Internet
Roman Law Resources
This site provides information on Roman law sources and literature, the teaching of Roman law, and the persons who study Roman law.
Rome: Republic to Empire
Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies
The Roman Society is the leading organization in the United Kingdom for those interested in the study of Rome and the Roman Empire. Its scope is wide, covering Roman history, archaeology, literature and art down to about A.D. 700.
VRoma
The VRoma site includes resources for teaching and learning Latin and ancient Roman culture and an interactive virtual world based on ancient Rome (the MOO), all created by the VRoma community (instructors and scholars who use the MOO with their students). Our resources also include a large archive of images contributed by VRomans, for use in teaching and learning.
Mapping Past Societies (Formerly, the Digital Atlas of Roman and Medieval Civilizations)
Materials for a Geographic Information Systems (GIS) approach to mapping and spatial analysis of the Roman and medieval worlds.
Allows innovative spatial and temporal analyses of all aspects of the civilizations of western Eurasia in the first 1500 years of our era, as well as the generation of original maps illustrating differing aspects of ancient and medieval civilization.