Ancient
History
Read about Ancient History and access primary texts. Resources
are divided into General, Primary and Secondary
Sources. Some sites include provide a mix of resources.
Your
Best Bet for a great resource.
General General history links are sites that collect
links to history sites.
about.com:
ancient/classical history
The about.com Web site is composed
of guides created by subject specialists. This siteis
organized into Ancient: Celts, Egypt, Far East, Greece,
India, MesoAmerica, Near East, Rome, Rome Empire, and
Rome Punic Wars as well as links to other related
guides.
The
Ancient World Web This nearly comprehensive site on ancient history covers
ancient art, cities, documents, economy, law, religion, theater, and
much more.
Yahoo!
Ancient History Many links to ancient history sites, including Ancient Art,
Classics, Coins and Currency, Egypt, Etruscans, Greece, Mesopotamia,
Roman Empire, Timelines and more.
Primary Sources
Primary sources are records from the past, recorded by people who were
present at the time such as letters, diaries, government documents, photographs,
oral histories, artifacts.
Diotima
A resource for patterns of gender around the ancient Mediterranean. Diotima
includes course materials, the beginnings of a searchable bibliography, and
links to on-line articles, book reviews, databases, and images. Special interest: Translated
Primary Sources, Women's
life in Greece and Rome.
Exploring
Ancient World Cultures
Based at the University of Evansville,
Indiana this multi-award winning site covers the
Ancient Near East, Ancient India, Ancient Egypt,
Ancient China, Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Early
Islam, and Medieval Europe. It includes maps, links
to related web sites, primary texts archived at the
site, such as The Art of War by Sun Tzu, Genesis, The
Papyrus of Ani (The Egyptian Book of the Dead)
and more.
Internet
Ancient History Sourcebook
The emphasis here is access to primary source texts for educational purposes.
The Internet Ancient History Sourcebook also includes links to visual
and aural material, since art and archeology are far more important for the
periods in question than for later history. It is organized into: Online Text
Collections, Using Primary Sources, Pre-History, Ancient Near East, Greece
and Hellenism, and Rome: Republic and Empire.
Internet Classics Archive
From MIT, a full text collection of Mainly Greco-Roman
works (some Chinese and Persian), all in English
translation.
The
Online Medieval and Classical Library (OMACL)
Browse this resource from the Berkeley Digital
Library SunSITE by Title, Author, Genre or Language.
Access Medieval and Classic literature and historical
documents such as The Anglo Saxon Chronicle, Troilus
and Criseyde, or The Fall of Troy.
Perseus
Project: Starting Points in Perseus
Hosted by Tufts University, this site is also
sponsored by Harvard University, National Endowment
for the Humanities, the Getty Grant program and many
others. Perseus has received many awards for its
outstanding coverage of Greek, and more recently
Roman, literature, history, art, and archaeology.
This link points specifically to the Starting Points
page, which has links to Overview of Archaic & Classical
Greek History, and many of the primary texts
archived at Perseus, such as Euclid's Elements, andHomer's Iliad.
Texts
for Ancient History Courses
Access select primary texts from Ancient,
Greek, Roman Republican, Roman Imperial, and Late Antiquity.
Documents include Jordanes' The Origins and Deeds
of the Goths, Thucydides' The Peloponnesian
War, Book 1, and Plutarch's Alcibiades.
Secondary Sources
Secondary sources are accounts of the past written after events have
taken place and generally give overviews or interpret history
Ancient
Northwest Europe
From Professor Geoffrey Russom at Brown University. This
site summarizes who the Anglo-Saxons, Celts and Norse
were, and includes information on their world, texts,
artifacts and archeology, battles and more.
Forum
Romanum Forum Romanum is a collaborative project among scholars,
teachers, and students with the broad purpose of bringing classical scholarship
out of college libraries and into a more accessible, online medium.
ORB:
Late Antiquity in the Mediterranean
Part of the larger ORB Online Encyclopedia site. This
portion provides an overview of history from the Classical era to the
seventh century.