LacusCurtius is a website specializing in ancient Rome, currently hosted on a server at the University of Chicago. It went online on August 26, 1997; in January 2008 it had "2786 pages, 690 photos, 675 drawings & engravings, 118 plans, 66 maps." The site is the creation of William P. Thayer (Bill).
The main resources to be found on it include:
- a number of Latin texts, usually in the original Latin and in English translation,
- Greek texts in English translation,
- Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities,
- Platner's Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome,
- several secondary works, mostly on Rome and Roman Britain,
- a photogazetteer of the Roman remains of central Italy,
- an often cited online copy of Richard Hinckley Allen's Star Names: Their Lore and Meaning.
The parent site also includes a large American history section and a Gazetteer of Italy; the latter is somewhat of a misnomer, being almost entirely about central Italy, especially Umbria, for which it is a useful source.
The proper spelling of "LacusCurtius" is as a single CamelCase word, with no space; the idea was to avoid polluting searches for the Lacus Curtius, a different thing altogether.
See also
- Template:Cite LacusCurtius, used to unifomize the citing style when linking to a reference work in the English section of LacusCurtius
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