![[image ALT: Much of my site will be useless to you if you\'ve got the images turned off!]](
Images/Utility/empty.gif
){kind=small}
|
mail:
Bill Thayer |
![[image ALT: a blank space]](
Images/Utility/empty.gif
){kind=small} Page updated: 1 Jan 23 |
![[Link ad una pagina in Italiano]](
Images/Utility/Flags/small/Italy.gif
) Italiano |
![[Link to a series of help pages]](Images/HELP/thumbnail.gif
) Help |
![[Link to the next level up]](Images/Utility/Icons/up.gif){kind=icon} Up |
![[Link to my homepage]](Images/Utility/Icons/home*_small.gif){kind=icon} Home |
What Was New (in 2004):
Changes to this site (mostly additions), the most recent listed first
If you're looking for what's new THIS YEAR
you're not on the right page:
this
is the one you want.
Minor changes, added photographs, corrections of broken links, etc. are not recorded, nor work in progress on unannounced sites.
Pages in Spanish will be reported here for now. Otherwise, pages in languages other than English will be reported here only if no English page exists, or if they are a resource in their own right. Italics mark original material.
![[Link to a page in English]](
Images/Utility/Flags/small/Anglica.gif
)
| Historia Augusta: The two Gallieni (Latin • English) |
|
| Historia Augusta: Firmus, Saturninus, Proculus, and Bonosus (Latin • English) |
|
| Historia Augusta: Carus, Carinus and Numerian (Latin • English) |
|
| Gazetteer of Italy: Umbria: S. Martino in Manciano |
|
| Historia Augusta: Maximus and Balbinus (Latin • English) |
|
| Historia Augusta: Macrinus (Latin • English) |
|
| Historia Augusta: Clodius Albinus (Latin • English) |
|
| Platner and Ashby's Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome: |
|
| Platner and Ashby's Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome: |
|
| Platner and Ashby's Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome: |
|
| Platner and Ashby's Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome: Oppius Mons |
|
| Historia Augusta: Avidius Cassius (Latin • English) |
|
| Historia Augusta: The two Valerians (Latin • English) |
|
| Historia Augusta: Didius Julianus (Latin • English) |
|
| Platner and Ashby's Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome: Aedes Lunae |
|
| Historia Augusta: Lucius Verus (Latin • English) |
|
| Historia Augusta: Antoninus Pius (Latin • English) |
|
| Historia Augusta: Pescennius Niger (Latin • English) |
|
| Historia Augusta: Pertinax (Latin • English) |
|
| Platner and Ashby's Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome: Athenaeum |
|
|
Platner and Ashby's Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome:
Thermae Decianae • Thermae Suranae • Thermae (smaller entries and index) |
|
| Historia Augusta: |
|
| Historia Augusta: Aelius (Latin • English) |
|
| Historia Augusta: The three Gordians (Latin • English) |
|
| Historia Augusta: |
|
| Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities: |
|
| Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities: |
|
| Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities: |
|
|
Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities:
Clavus Latus and Clavus Angustus • Clitellae (saddlebags) • The Graeco-Roman Lyre |
|
| Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities: |
|
| Platner and Ashby's Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome: |
|
|
Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities:
Zona (support belt) |
|
| Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities: |
|
| Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities: |
|
| Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities: |
|
| Gazetteer of Italy: Umbria: |
|
| Gazetteer of Italy: Umbria: |
|
| Gazetteer of Italy: Umbria: |
|
| Gazetteer of Italy: Umbria: |
|
|
Gazetteer of Italy: Marche:
Treia: orientation page |
|
| 1911 Britannica: Ticinum |
|
|
Cato, de Agricultura:
complete Latin text, with English translation (+ introduction and summary of the manuscript history) |
|
|
Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities:
As • Cotyla • Denarius • Libra (unit of weight) • Libra (scales) • Litra • Moneta • Sestertius • Uncia |
|
|
Roman Britain:
"Objects Illustrative of Roman Professions and Trades, Discovered in the Excavations at Wroxeter"
(1863) by Thomas Wright
|
|
|
Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities:
The Title of Augustus • The Title of Caesar • Caupo • Cautio • Certi/Incerti Actio • Cetra • Chronologia • Crates |
|
| Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities: |
|
| Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities: |
|
| Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities: Sagitta |
|
| Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities: |
|
| Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities: |
|
| Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities: |
|
|
Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities:
Pugio • Serra • Sextarius • Sica • Speculum • Sportula • Stipendiarii • Talio |
|
| Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities: |
|
|
Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities:
Caryatids • Inauguratio • Legatum • Siparium |
|
| Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities: |
|
| Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities: |
|
| Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities: |
|
|
Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities:
Apsis • Donatio Mortis Causa • Urna • Viaticum • Villicus |
|
|
Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities:
Catchall page for all articles starting with the letter L, which includes some minor entries. Limbus • Ludi • Ludi Honorarii • Mortarium • Rhyton • Tribulus |
|
| Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities: |
|
| Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities: Lautumiae |
|
|
American & Military History:
The Great Baltimore Riot of 1812
(a contemporaneous pamphlet)
Catchall pages for all articles starting with the letters M and R, with some minor entries; Also, the article Rutrum |
|
|
Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities:
Catchall page for all articles starting with the letter N, which includes some minor entries. |
|
|
Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities: |
|
|
Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities: Metallum • Ordo • Orichalcum |
|
|
Gazetteer of Italy:
Umbria: Churches of Giano dell' Umbria (10 pages, 74 photos) Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities: |
|
|
Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities:
Catchall page for all articles starting with the letter O, which includes some minor entries. |
|
| Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities: |
|
| Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities: |
|
| Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities: |
|
| Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities: |
|
| Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities: |
|
| Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities: |
|
|
Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities:
2 different legal procedures by the same name:
|
|
|
Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities:
Acerra (incense box) • Alabastrum (perfume bottle) • Amulets • Assertor • Turibulum (censer) |
|
|
Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities:
Catena (jewelry chain) • Subligaculum (loincloth, underwear) |
|
|
Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities:
Torculum (oil or wine press) |
|
|
Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities:
Tintinnabulum (bells) |
![[image ALT: a blank space]](
Images/Utility/empty.gif
){kind=small}
|
This site moved to a new Web address:
E/home.html
If your website links to me, your readers will appreciate your making the change. The structure of this site remains exactly the same, so you can easily change all your links to it at one swoop: replace
http://www.ukans.edu/history/index/europe/ancient_rome
by https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer |
|
|
Gazetteer of Italy:
Umbria: Churches of Perugia (placeholder page, 18 photos) |
|
|
Gazetteer of Italy:
Umbria: Churches of Valfabbrica (10 pages, 27 photos) |
|
|
Gazetteer of Italy:
Umbria: Churches of Bevagna (7 pages, 31 new photos) |
|
|
Gazetteer of Italy:
Umbria: Churches of Acquasparta (5 new pages, 17 new photos) |
|
| Gazetteer of Italy: Marche: Pollenza: inscription of L. Hostilius Tullius |
|
| Gazetteer of Italy: Marche: Macerata city (placeholder page, 1 photo) |
|
|
Gazetteer of Italy:
Umbria: Ponte di Cerreto (9 pages, 32 photos) |
|
|
Gazetteer of Italy:
Lazio: Churches of Leonessa (about 15 pages, 60 photos) |
|
| Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities: Tumultus (state of emergency) |
|
|
Gazetteer of Italy:
Umbria: Cannaiola di Trevi
Tuscany:
Anghiari:
orientation page
|
|
|
Gazetteer of Italy: Tuscany:
Arezzo: orientation page |
|
|
Gazetteer of Italy: Marche:
Pollenza: orientation page |
|
| Gazetteer of Italy: Umbria: |
|
| Gazetteer of Italy, mostly orientation pages: |
|
|
Gazetteer of Italy:
Rovigo:
orientation page
1911 Britannica: |
|
|
Diary
— my 2004 stay in Italy, just ended, illustrated with over 250 large photos.
Feb. 24 — Preparations and departure flight. Feb. 25 — Arrival at the airport in Rome; the train trip to Umbertide. Feb. 26 — My home base, the town of Umbertide. Feb. 27 — Train trip to Trevi; brief visit of a church at Ponte S. Giovanni. Feb. 28 — Trevi: a performance of something like Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. Feb. 29 — A walk near Umbertide, to Borgo Pulciano and Morávola. Mar. 1 — A walk to Migianella de' Marchesi. Mar. 3 — Walks to the abbey of Montecorona and to Niccone and Montemigiano, all near Umbertide. Mar. 4 — Brief entry: the start of a trip to Rome. Mar. 5 — An excursion to Rome. Mar. 7 — A walk from Magione to Corciano. Mar. 8 — A day trip to Città di Castello. Mar. 10 — A walk to Torgiano and Deruta, in Umbria; an excursion to Sansepolcro, in Tuscany. Mar. 11 — A daytrip to Perugia. Mar. 12 — Brief entry: a walk to Monte S. Maria Tiberina. Mar. 13 — A walk from Sansecondo to Monte S. Maria Tiberina then Città di Castello, and a walk to Montecastello di Vibio. Mar. 14 — The beginning of a 2‑day walk and excursion to Pietralunga. Mar. 16 — Excursion to Pietralunga, continued; a daytrip to Perugia. Mar. 18 — A walk to some villages near Umbertide: Romeggio, Polgeto, Borgo S. Giuliana, Eremo di Montecorona; a daytrip to Foligno. Mar. 20 — Day 1 of a walk from Tuoro sul Trasimeno to Lisciano Niccone then Umbertide. Mar. 21 — Day 2 of the same walk. Mar. 23 — A daytrip to Assisi; the beginning of several days' excursion to Macerata and its area, in the Marche. Mar. 24 — Excursion to Macerata, Treia and surroundings, continued. Mar. 25 — Excursion to Treia and surroundings, continued. Mar. 26 — The end of this excursion to the area around Macerata, with a walk from Treia to Pollenza and Sforzacosta; a brief visit to Perugia. Mar. 27 — A side trip to a small area of Romagna: the salt flats of Cervia, the towns of Cesenatico, Savignano sul Rubicone and Sant' Arcangelo di Romagna. Mar. 29 — A daytrip to Brisighella and Faenza, in Emilia-Romagna. Mar. 31 — A walk from Pierantonio to Umbertide, searching for an Etruscan tomb near S. Giovanni del Pantano. Apr. 8 — Brief entry: battling a flu; visit to Spello. Apr. 11 — Good Friday observances in Umbertide, a small possibly Etruscan building near Umbertide, and an Easter lunch in Trevi. Apr. 13 — An excursion to Arezzo and Anghiari, in Tuscany. Apr. 14 — A driving tour of the northern tip of Umbria and nearby parts of Tuscany, especially Caprese Michelangelo and Colle Plinio. Apr. 16 — A brief visit to Monterchi, in Tuscany; a car trip to Fossato di Vico; Valfabbrica. Apr. 18 — A pair of bus rides thru Umbria, some meals in Città della Pieve. Apr. 19 — A circular walk from Città della Pieve to Piegaro, Montegabbione, and Monteleone di Orvieto. Apr. 22 — Brief entry, nothing much. Apr. 23 — Day 1 of a walk from Massa Martana to Trevi: S. Pietro sopra le Acque, Viepri, Montecchio, Bastardo. Apr. 24, Part 1 — Day 2: Bastardo, Collesecco, Marcellano, S. Terenziano, Barattano, Torri. Apr. 24, Part 2 — Days 3‑4: Bastardo, Giano dell' Umbria (and S. Felice), Castagnola, Montefalco, Cannaiola. Apr. 27 — A walk from Montecastelli to Sansecondo via Canoscio, and a visit to Trevi. Apr. 30, Part 1 — A walk from Orvieto to Porano and back; the Etruscan tombs of Hescanas and Settecamini. Apr. 30, Part 2 — A 2‑day circular walk thru Sala, Ficulle, Fabro, S. Pietro Aquaeortus and Allerona. May 1 — A daytrip to Otricoli and Ocriculum and the Madonna dei Bagni; a daytrip to Todi. May 3 — A 2‑day walk from Marsciano to Bastardo to S. Maria degli Angeli, the train station of Assisi. May 4 — A visit of the Vatican Necropolis under St. Peter's in Rome. May 7 — A visit to Trevi; walking around Acquasparta and S. Faustino. May 9 — A drive from Umbertide to Leonessa, the long way: some Roman remains including the Tempietto del Clitunno, S. Brizio, the church of S. Salvatore in Spoleto, the church of S. Giovanni Battista in Arrone. May 10 — A detailed visit of Leonessa; Day 1 of a walk in the Valnerina: from Leonessa to Monteleone di Spoleto. May 12 — Days 2 and 3: a detailed visit of Monteleone di Spoleto; Poggiodomo, the Madonna della Stella, Ponte, and Cerreto. May 15 — A visit to the American Academy in Rome; a Romanesque itinerary thru Umbria: Limigiano, S. Angelo Sconcolo, Pieve S. Gregorio, Trevi, Bovara, the church of S. Salvatore in Spoleto. May 16 — A walk from Marsciano to S. Venanzo and back, an automobile excursion in the hinterland of Trevi, and another to Mercatello, Pierle, Preggio and S. Bartolomeo de' Fossi. May 17 — A train trip to Rovigo in Emilia-Romagna. May 19 — A detailed visit of Chioggia and Sottomarina in the Veneto. May 23 — Treia and surroundings, in the Marche. May 24 — Visiting Treia, continued, and a walk from Urbisaglia to Treia. May 25 — A visit to Fabriano in the Marche, a farewell lunch in Città di Castello. |
|
|
Quintilian —
Institutio Oratoria
Appian — Civil Wars Celsus — De Medicina (The above items are only partly proofread, but I was preparing to go offline until May 25: there was no point hoarding the information pending perfection.) |
|
| Plutarch, Moralia: On the Fortune or Virtue of Alexander |
|
|
Claudian:
Epithalamium Palladio et Celerinae (Epithalamium of Palladius and Celerina) |
|
| Gazetteer of Umbria: Triponzo (and the celebrated Roman inscription) • Passaggio di Bettona |
|
| Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities: The Roman Province |
|
| Velleius Paterculus: Historia Romana |
|
| Claudian: De Sexto Consulatu Honorii Augusti (On the Sixth Consulship of Honorius) |
|
| Claudian: |
|
| Claudian: |
|
|
Claudian:
de Nuptiis Honorii Augusti Fescennina • Epithalamium (Fescennina • Epithalamium for the Wedding of the Emperor Honorius) |
|
| Claudian: De Consulatu Stilichonis (On the Consulship of Stilicho); see orientation page. |
|
|
Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities:
Crotalum (castanets, sort of) • Cymbalum • Odeum (concert hall) |
|
| Claudian: |
|
| Claudian: In Rufinum (Against Rufinus); see orientation page. |
|
| Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities: Rex Sacrificulus (Rex Sacrorum) |
|
| Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities: Pera (wallet, handbag) |
|
|
Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities:
Beneficium
Platner and Ashby's Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome: Aurelian Walls • Temple of Mercury |
|
| Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities: Vindicatio |
|
Images with borders lead to more information.
The thicker the border, the more information. (Details here.) |
||||||
|
Previous "What's New" pages:
| ||||||
|
Later "What's New" pages:
| ||||||
| UP TO: |
![[Link to my homepage]](
Images/Utility/Icons/home*.gif
){kind=icon} Home |
|||||
![[image ALT: Valid HTML 4.01.]](
Images/Utility/W3C_validation/401.png
)