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This large volume of over 600 pages was for many years the standard reference work, in the English-speaking world at least, on the city of Rome, its hills, its streets, its walls and monuments.
Since 1929, research has progressed immensely, hundreds of scholars having opened new excavations in Rome, or analyzed old ones, as well as inscriptions, coins and literary evidence. For scholarly purposes the work is therefore dated; and to some extent superseded by A New Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome by L. Richardson, jr, published in 1992; and that work in turn is already in part being superseded by the results from recent and current archaeology, among which in particular the major excavations of Trajan's Forum and the surrounding area.
But in view of the paucity of solid material (and the relatively large amount of nonsense) on the Web, caviling with Platner & Ashby is just that: the work remains extremely useful. I'll be putting a small selection of articles online, mostly as background material for other webpages. I do not intend to put the whole work online.
I've tried to link the references to Latin texts or other sites on the Web, as appropriate; and have sometimes illustrated the text with my own photographs. In the best medieval manner, I occasionally comment the text in a footnote, or when I manage to express myself succinctly, as Javascript annotations that you can read by placing your cursor over the little bullets of various colors,º or sometimes over the images.
The 1929 text of the Topographical Dictionary is now in the public domain; it is online here courtesy of the University of Chicago.
As grateful as we should be for it, though, that Web edition has one major flaw. It is not searchable text, but rather a series of scanned images, page by page. That is why I felt it useful to put some pages up myself: the LacusCurtius pages of Platner are fully searchable.
My own photographs, and technically my notes, are not in the public domain, of course. If you have copyright questions,
just ask.
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