General Reference Works

This list and my other source pages include works that are generally accessible and that I have found particularly useful; it does not pretend to be comprehensive.

Architecture and Topography

• Anderson, James C., Jr. Roman Architecture and Society. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.
• Dudley, Donald R. Urbs Roma: A Source Book of Classical Texts on the City and Its Monuments. London: Phaidon Press, 1967.
• Edwards, Catharine. Writing Rome: Textual Approaches to the City. Roman Literature and Its Contexts. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
• Huelsen, Christian. The Roman Forum: Its History and Its Monuments. 2nd ed. Translated by Jesse Benedict Carter. New York: G. E. Stechert, 1909.
• Platner, Samuel Ball. The Topography and Monuments of Ancient Rome. 2nd ed. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1911.
• Richardson, Lawrence, Jr. A New Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992.
• Robinson, O. F. Ancient Rome: City Planning and Administration. London: Routledge, 1992.
• Ward-Perkins, J. B. Roman Imperial Architecture. Pelican History of Art. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981.

Cinema

• Solomon, Jon. The Ancient World in the Cinema. South Brunswick: A. S. Barnes, 1978.
• Wyke, Maria. Projecting the Past: Ancient Rome, Cinema and History. The New Ancient World. New York: Routledge, 1997.

History and General Reference

• Adkins, Lesley, and Roy A. Adkins. Handbook to Life in Ancient Rome. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.
• Bauman, Richard A. Women and Politics in Ancient Rome. London: Routledge, 1992.
• Bradley, Keith R. Discovering the Roman Family: Studies in Roman Social History. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.
• Bunson, Matthew. A Dictionary of the Roman Empire. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.
• Christ, Karl. The Romans: An Introduction to Their History and Civilization. Translated by Christopher Holme. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984.
• Connolly, Peter, and Hazel Dodge. The Ancient City: Life in Classical Athens & Rome. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.
• Cornell, Tim: Matthews, John. Atlas of the Roman World. New York: Facts on File, 1982.
• Fantham, Elaine, et al. Women in the Classical World: Image and Text. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.
• Gardner, Jane F. Women in Roman Law and Society. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1986.
• Kamm, Antony. The Romans: An Introduction. London: Routledge, 1995.
• Kleiner, Diana E., E., and Susan B. Matheson. I Claudia: Women in Ancient Rome. New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 1996.
• The Oxford Classical Dictionary. Edited by Simon Hornblower and Antony Spawforth. 3rd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.
• Shelton, Jo-Ann. As the Romans Did: A Sourcebook in Roman Social History. 2nd ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
• Stierlin, Henri. The Roman Empire. Volume I: From the Etruscans to the Decline of the Roman Empire. Cologne: Taschen, 1996.

Gateway Pages on the Web

• Collection of Lexica and Text Resources for ancient texts (Harvard)
• Diotima: Materials for the Study of Women and Gender in the Ancient World Now sponsored by The Women's Classical Conference
• Lacus Curtius: into the Roman World
• Library of Congress Classics Resources Home Page
• Visit the VRoma MOO Web Gateway, where you can Log in as a Guest and look around at Virtual Rome.
• Virtual Catalog of Roman Coins