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Latin Inscriptions:
a famous one on the Arch of Titus in Rome
(with a particularly interesting "solution" page) |
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Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities: Asylum |
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Platner and Ashby's Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome:
Asylum (a very brief article) |
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Platner and Ashby's Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome:
Baths of Diocletian |
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Platner and Ashby's Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome:
Forum Iulium (and Temple of Venus Genetrix) |
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Platner and Ashby's Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome:
Arcus Tiberii • Diribitorium |
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Platner and Ashby's Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome:
3 small related pages: Fausta Felicitas • Genius Populi Romani • Venus Victrix |
| Quintus Curtius: Historiae Alexandri Magni - complete Latin text with apparatus criticus |
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Related page, in the same small area of Rome (see also 2 Oct):
Churches of Rome: S. Tommaso in Formis link page Platner and Ashby's Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome: Arcus Neroniani |
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Related pages, in the same small area of Rome:
Churches of Rome: S. Stefano Rotondo Platner and Ashby's Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome: Castra Peregrina |
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Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities: Bulla — both the bulla praetexta and the metal bosses of doors |
| Gazetteer of Umbria: A Roman milestone in Orvieto |
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Platner and Ashby's Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome: Pomerium (includes a small map of Rome, by the way) Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities: |
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Platner and Ashby's Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome: the 3 arches of Drusus |
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Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities: Pomoerium |
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Churches of Rome:
index page
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S. Maria in Domnica
Platner and Ashby's Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome: The Sacred Way |
| Platner and Ashby's Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome: Temple of Jupiter Capitolinus |
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Platner and Ashby's Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome: Porticus (general article and index) • Porticus Minucia |
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Platner and Ashby's Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome: Porticus Aemilia • Porticus Deorum Consentium • Porticus Octaviae • Porticus Pompei • Porticus Vipsania |
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Platner and Ashby's Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome: Porticus of the Argonauts • Porticus Liviae • Porticus Margaritaria • Temple of Apollo in the Campus Martius |
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Platner and Ashby's Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome: |
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Platner and Ashby's Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome: Forum Holitorium • Sepulchrum C. Cestii (Pyramid of Cestius) • Templum Pacis |
| Latin Inscriptions: • horses and carrots in the Capitoline Museums (and its "solution" page) • the funerary plaque of a poor freedwoman • Finally, the index page for epitaphs in the Capitoline Museums |
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Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities
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| Rodolfo Lanciani: Pagan and Christian Rome (complete) |
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Platner and Ashby's Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome: Clivus Capitolinus • Clivus Scauri • all other cliva (or clivi) |
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Ostia:
the Firemen's Barracks
Platner and Ashby's Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome: Scalae Gemoniae |
| Gazetteer of Rome: The so‑called Temple of Minerva Medica |
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Platner and Ashby's Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome,
2 related entries:
Minerva Medica • Nymphaeum (covers 6 nymphaea, actually) |
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Platner and Ashby's Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome:
gates and arches in the SE quadrant of the Aurelian Walls, with photos. Porta Appia • Porta Latina • Porta Metrovia • Arco di Druso |
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Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities: Plaustrum (oxcart) |
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Churches of the comune of Trevi: S. Donato and 2 Roman inscriptions (in S.Pietro a Pettine and S. Emiliano) were already online; I've added an index page and 8 pages/11 photos of new material, including 2 new churches. Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities: Milliare (the Roman milestone) Roman Roads in Britain, by Thomas Codrington: No new pages but the clickmap to Chapter 4 (Ermine Street) is now online. |
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2 related articles:
Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities: Puteal Platner and Ashby's Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome: Puteal Libonis Latin Inscription: in the church of S. Emiliano of Trevi (and its "solution" page) |
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Gazetteer of Umbria:
My existing single page on St. Francis's hermitage near Assisi was not very good. I've now divided it into 3, and added a lot of new material: Eremo delle Carceri |
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Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities:
2 midsized and 4 small entries dealing with religion: Haruspices • Luperci • Aeditui • Neocori • Sacellum • Sacrarium |
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Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities:
Augurium (augury, or divination from birds: one of the better entries) • Lituus |
| Gazetteer of Rome: Arch of Titus link page |
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Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities:
Currus (the main article for chariots) |
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Gazetteer of Umbria:
index page for the comune of Foligno
Platner and Ashby's Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome:
Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities:
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Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities:
Agrimensores |
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Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities:
Dies (divisions and types of days) • Accensi |
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Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities:
Horologium (sundials and water clocks) |
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Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities:
Fistula (water pipe) • Hydraula (the hydraulic organ) |
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David Fingrut's Mithraism Page
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Diary:
Index to Umbria
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Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities:
3 small articles, related mostly by their woodcuts: Funambulus (tightrope-walker) • Thyrsus • Vannus (the winnowing-fan) |
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Endangered Heritage:
index page
A sampling of cultural monuments damaged by vandalism and art theft. |
| Vitruvius: de Architectura - Latin text (Teubner, 1899) completed, with only proofing left: Book X |
| Vitruvius: de Architectura - Latin text (Teubner, 1899): Book IX |
| Vitruvius: de Architectura - Latin text (Teubner, 1899): Book VIII |
| Vitruvius: de Architectura - Latin text (Teubner, 1899): Book VII |
| Vitruvius: de Architectura - Latin text (Teubner, 1899): Book VI |
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Platner and Ashby's Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome:
Horti Sallustiani (Gardens of Sallust) • Aedes (tres) Fortunae (the Three Temples of Fortune) |
| Vitruvius: de Architectura - Latin text (Teubner, 1899): Book V |
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Platner and Ashby's Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome:
Obeliscus Hortorum Sallustianorum (the obelisk at the top of the Spanish Steps) |
| Vitruvius: de Architectura - Latin text (Teubner, 1899): Book IV |
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Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities:
a small article on obelisks: Obeliscus Platner and Ashby's Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome: Obeliscus Augusti in Circo Maximo (the Flaminian obelisk) |
| Vitruvius: de Architectura - Latin text (Teubner, 1899): Book III |
| Platner and Ashby's Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome: Obeliscus Augusti (Augustus' great sundial) |
| Vitruvius: de Architectura - Latin text (Teubner, 1899): Book II |
| Vitruvius: de Architectura - Latin text (Teubner, 1899): Book I |
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Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities:
a minor article on what exactly was meant by being "naked": Nudus |
| Fossato di Vico: a tiny Roman bridge over the Riga |
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Vitruvius: de Architectura
- English translation by Joseph Gwilt, completed:
Book VIII • Book IX • Book X Platner and Ashby's Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome: Porta Collina |
| Vitruvius: de Architectura - English translation by Joseph Gwilt: Book VI • Book VII |
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Vitruvius: de Architectura
- English translation by Joseph Gwilt:
Book IV • Book V |
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Vitruvius: de Architectura
- English translation by Joseph Gwilt:
Book II • Book III |
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Vitruvius: de Architectura
- English translation by Joseph Gwilt:
homepage • Book I |
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Platner and Ashby's Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome:
Arch of Titus |
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Platner and Ashby's Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome:
Amphitheatrum Flavium (the Colosseum) |
| Pliny the Elder, Natural History: Book 19 is now proofed, supposedly errorfree. |
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Platner and Ashby's Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome:
Anio Novus |
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Platner and Ashby's Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome:
Aqua Claudia |
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Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities:
a fairly major article on Roman bridges: Pons |
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Roman Bridges:
link page
to 70 sites on individual bridges
Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities,
Pliny the Elder, Natural History: Book 18 is now proofed, supposedly errorfree. (This is like pulling teeth, folks. . .) |
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Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities,
a major article on the Roman circus (6 woodcuts, 4 photos): Circus
Platner and Ashby's Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome:
Souvenirs of the Marquise de Créquy:
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Platner and Ashby's Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome:
The Ara Pacis |
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Platner and Ashby's Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome:
The Palatine Hill |
| Roman Baths: link page to 75 sites |
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Rome:
link page
to other sites on the actual City of Rome
The Palatine Hill: link page to 20 other Palatine sites |
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Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities,
3 articles:
Carpentum • Exostra • Mansio |
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The Pantheon:
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the home page
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the major entry in Platner and Ashby's Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome
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and
a page of about 75 links to other Pantheon websites
Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, 2 very brief articles: • Lararium (home chapel or altar in a Roman house) • Librator (a type of soldier or a waterworks technician) |
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Latin Inscription:
in the Musei Capitolini in Rome
Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, 2 articles: • Emissarium (engineering: a certain type of water channel) • Velum (curtains, veils, sails, awnings in various uses) |
| Platner and Ashby's Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome: Aqua Marcia |
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Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities,
a major article on Greek and Roman theatre buildings: Theatrum and an article on the singing of Fescennine verses at Roman weddings: Fescennina |
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Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities,
a major article on the Roman law of marriage and the wedding ceremonies: Matrimonium |
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Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities,
an article on children in Roman law: Infans |
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Pliny the Elder, Natural History:
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Preface (proofed)
The text of the Natural History on my site is now complete. |
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Roman Britain:
a small article on amphitheatres
from a 1911 book, and
a related list of British amphitheatre websites (a subset of my main amphitheatre weblist, no new information) |
| Rome, Aurelian Walls, Amphitheatrum Castrense, 2 minor additions: • a (brick!) Corinthian capital • Platner and Ashby's Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome: brief entry on the Amphitheatrum Castrense |
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Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities:
a fairly major article on Roman roads: Viae and a minor article: Stratores |
| The Colosseum: an index page |
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Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities:
major article on the Roman aqueduct: Aquaeductus |
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Platner and Ashby's Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome:
minor article: Via Collatina |
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Platner and Ashby's Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome:
homepage and 2 articles: Anio Vetus • Via Flaminia |
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Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities:
2 new articles: Fuscina • Gladiatores |
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Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities:
homepage and 6 new articles: Bestiarii • Cisium • Covinus • Esseda • Naumachia • Venatio |
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Roman Amphitheatres:
Smith's Dictionary (1875) - "Amphitheatrum" A major article, mostly about the Colosseum, with several diagrams; illustrated with several additional photos; linked to further pages from the same dictionary. |
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Souvenirs of the Marquise de Créquy:
On the Perils of Latin Toponymy |
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Roman Roads in Britain, by Thomas Codrington: No new pages but the clickmap to Chapter 2 (Watling Street) is now online. |
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Roman Roads in Britain, by Thomas Codrington: No new pages (text is complete, after all) but the clickmap to Chapter 3 (Watling Street, continued) is now online. |
| Roman Aqueducts: link page to 160 sites on individual aqueducts (about 45 of which are the Pont du Gard) |
| Frontinus, de Aquis: manuscript and apparatus page for 2.115 |
| Rome, Aurelian Walls: the Amphitheatrum Castrense |
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Via Flaminia a Roma: Porta Flaminia La pagina già esisteva in inglese, ora tradotta: grazie a Paolo Carena. |
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Ptolemy:
page of links to 15 other sites related to Ptolemy's Geography
the link page is now divided into two, with a new page linking to 95 Colosseum sites (only the page is new, not the links themselves) |
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Via Flaminia a Roma:
Ponte Milvio
Queste pagine già esistevano in inglese, ora tradotte: grazie a Paolo Carena. |
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Via Flaminia:
Roma: pagina indice
Queste pagine già esistevano in inglese, ora tradotte: grazie a Paolo Carena. |
| A Roman inscription in Narni: the effects of bad lining-out |
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Via Flaminia: pagina indice
Queste 2 pagine già esistevano in inglese, ora tradotte: grazie a Paolo Carena. |
| A mystery of coins and fire in the pavement of the Basilica Aemilia |
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Frontinus: The Water Supply of Rome The complete English translation by Charles E. Bennett, published by Loeb, 1925. |
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Frontinus: The Water Supply of Rome
The complete Latin text. A complete photoreproduction of the sole medieval manuscript of it is also on its way: some of it is already up.
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| Roman Waterworks: the Meta Sudans |
| Pitigliano (Tuscany): index page for the "vie cave" (maybe Etruscan roads) |
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Roman Britain:
the index page
Pantheon: details of the door Children in the Roman World: the bulla praetexta |
| Trevi: the index page |
| Ostia: the index page |
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Photo Index, 1998:
page 1
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page 2
I'm just starting to index the 110 rolls of 1998 photos; the index will be completed gradually over the next few months. |
| A possibly newly-discovered Roman inscription (Trevi, Umbria). |
| Diary — The last pages of my 1998 stay in Italy, just ended: • 14 (Spello: the medieval aqueduct bridge known as the Ponte Parasacco; good-byes.) • 15 (I leave Spello. A guided visit of Roman remains in and around Narni. I stay overnight in Orte Scalo, and return to Chicago via Fiumicino airport and Munich.) |
| Diary — 1998 stay in Italy, just ended: • Nov. 2 (I visit Bettona: an old town with walls and a good museum.) • 3 (A day in Ostia Antica; a walk from Nocera Umbra to Fossato di Vico; a day in Rome: the Velabro and the Capitolium, in brief) • 6 (Not much.) • 7 (A rather thorough guided visit of Trevi and environs: Roman stuff.) • 8 (Not much reported, although I wander around quite a bit.) • 11 (The beginning of the 2d international Ostia colloquium.) • 13 (The Ostia symposium in more detail; a visit to Portus.) |
| Diary — 1998 stay in Italy, just ended: • Oct. 30 (Amelia: a disorganized sort of day) • Oct. 31 (Amelia: was that a Roman dam? Ancona: mostly the Duomo; Norcia: a beautiful fall day and some Roman inscriptions; Rome: James almost misses his plane.) |
| Diary — 1998 stay in Italy, just ended: • Oct. 21 (Trevi: the annual Celery Fair) • Oct. 24 (Chiusi: the Etruscan Museum and some tombs; a visit to Ostia Antica) • Oct. 25 (San Gémini and Carsulae) • Oct. 27 (We begin our visit of Amelia) |
| Diary — 1998 stay in Italy, just ended: • Oct. 1 (not much really; but I visit Bastia Umbra) • Oct. 7 (Rome: St. John Lateran; Assisi: the Rocca) • Oct. 10 (Spello: a meal that should have been better) • Oct. 11 (Spoleto: the fascinating Late Antique churches of S. Ponziano and S. Salvatore) • Oct. 12 (A performance of Mozart's Don Giovanni in Orvieto) • Oct. 15 (Etruscan remains in Orvieto; a good meal) • Oct. 16 (mostly underground Orvieto) • Oct. 19 (Long entry: mostly Pitigliano and its "vie cave", which I don't believe are Etruscan roads) |
| Diary — 1998 stay in Italy, just ended: • Sep. 22 (end of a good restaurant in Todi) • 23 (Fossato di Vico, Sigillo, Scirca, Costacciaro, three Roman bridges) • 24 (Scheggia, a quick visit to the Roman theatre of Gubbio) • 25 (Nocera Umbra: a ghost town since the 1997 earthquake) • 27 (Etruscana in the Museo Archeologico Nazionale in Perugia; a Katia Ricciarelli concert) • 30 (a 47 km walk across most of central Umbria, from Spello to Todi) |
| Via Flaminia: small links page |
| Diary — 1998 stay in Italy, just ended: • Sep. 18 (Amelia /Ameria/, Seripola /Castellum Amerinum/) • 19 (Seripola, Amelia; Rome: a very disappointing visit of the Forum) • 20 (nothing much) |
| Diary — 1998 stay in Italy, just ended: • Sep. 11 (Pigge, a small town near Trevi) • 12 (Campello sul Clitunno; walk from S. Vittorio Terme to Sassoferrato) • 16 (mostly small Roman remains around Spello) • 17 (more small Roman remains around Spello; Fornole, near Amelia) |
| Diary — the beginning of my 1998 stay in Italy, just ended: • Aug. 26 (departure) • 27 (Rome airport and train thru Umbria) • 28 (arrival in Spello) • 29 (the flu in Spello) • 30 (train to Rimini) • 31 (Rimini & San Marino) • Sep. 1 (flu: nothing much) • 2 (Urvinum Hortense & Cannara) • 3 (Rome: a stretch of the Aurelian Walls; the Colosseum) • 5 (as part of Spello's Festa Romana I parade thru Spello as Julius Caesar. . .) • 7 (the site of the battle of Lake Trasimene; a vandalized church in Spello; Julius Caesar again) • 8 (Spoleto: theatre, museum, S. Pietro) • 10 (Rome: Palazzo Barberini, Largo Argentina) |
| Pliny the Elder, Natural History: • completed Book 1 |
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al‑Idrisi
(for now, available only in French):
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Second Climate, Sections 1‑3
(roughly: the Sahara)
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Second Climate, First Section only
(southern Morocco and the Canary Islands)
Part of the same text as above, but with a second translation facing it |
| Via Appia: • rudimentary index page to the famous stretch leading out of Rome • an inscription now in the Tomb of Caecilia Metella |
| Pliny the Elder, Natural History: • completed Book 22 |
| Pliny the Elder, Natural History: • completed Book 21 |
| Pliny the Elder, Natural History: • completed Book 20 |
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Via Appia:
The Tomb of Secundinus
Latin Inscription: in the lapidary collection of the Palazzo Comunale of Spello |
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Pliny the Elder, Natural History:
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completed Book 19
28 Dec (visit of the roof of the Duomo of Milan) • 29 Dec 1996 |
| Pliny the Elder, Natural History: • completed Book 18 |
| A correction made today: the Gubbio index page put up a few days ago now contains the right material. |
| Pliny the Elder, Natural History: • completed Book 17 |
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Pliny the Elder, Natural History:
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completed Book 16
Trees and timber in the Roman world: bibliographical reference page. |
| Bevagna: homepage |
| Ptolemy: • Book 4, Chapter 7 — Aethiopia below Egypt • Book 4, Chapter 8 - Aethiopia Interior |
| Rome: the grave of Augustus Hare in the Protestant Cemetery |
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Matigge: church of S. Donato (and Via Flaminia, sort of)
Latin Inscription: in the city gate of Massa Martana (more Via Flaminia, sort of) |
| Ptolemy: • Book 3, Chapter 5 - European Sarmatia • Book 3, Chapter 6 - The Tauric Chersonesus • Book 3, Chapter 7 - The Iazyges Metanastae |
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Spoleto
index page
Gubbio: • index page • Palazzo dei Consoli |
| Ptolemy: • Index of Places |
| Roman Theatres: • index page (page existed but very poorly developed, so unreported; now adequate) • Gubbio • Spoleto |
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Roman Theatres:
link page
to 250 sites on individual theatres
Page existed but very poorly developed, so unreported; now a useful resource. |
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Roman Roads in Britain, by Thomas Codrington:
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Chapter 11 - Conclusion.
Latin Inscription: near the via della Torre di Belvedere in Spello |
| Roman Roads in Britain, by Thomas Codrington: • Chapter 10 - Roman Roads from London to Silchester and the West, continued. |
| Roman Roads in Britain, by Thomas Codrington: • Chapter 9 - Roman Roads from London to Silchester and the West |
| Ptolemy: • Book 5, Chapter 3 - Lycia |
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Ptolemy:
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Book 5, Chapter 2 - Asia proper
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and the clickmap for
Book 5, Chapter 1 - Pontus and Bithynia
Roman Amphitheatres:
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index page
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| Ptolemy: • Book 5, Chapter 13 - Cyprus |
| Ptolemy: • Book 5 homepage • Book 5, Chapter 1 - Pontus and Bithynia • and the clickmaps for Book 2, Chapter 3 - Baetica and Book 2, Chapter 6 - Aquitania |
| Ptolemy: • Book 2, Chapter 1 - Hibernia • Book 4, Chapter 4 - Cyrenaica • Book 4, Chapter 5 - "Marmarica, Libya, and Egypt" (what we would now call only Egypt) |
| Roman Roads in Britain, by Thomas Codrington: • Chapter 8 - Riknild Street |
| Ptolemy: • Book 2, Chapter 2 - Britannia |
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Ptolemy:
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Book 4, Chapter 3 - Africa proper (Numidia)
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