The Nolli Web Site presents the 1748 Nolli Map of Rome as a dynamic, interactive, hands-on tool to study Architecure, Urban Theory, Cartography, and more. The public now has access to cataloged information about the map in both written and graphical form. The map not only provides rich information, but it is updated with new data over time to embrace expanding knowledge.
[accès réservé] Éd. en ligne du Neue Pauly : Enzyklopädie der Antike. Das klassische Altertum und seine Rezeptionsgeschichte (J. B. Metzler, 1996-2003, 18 vol.), en allemand. Liens vers la version anglaise
[accès réservé] Traduction en anglais du Neue Pauly, en cours de publication (nov. 2008 : Antiquity, A-S ; Classical tradition, A-O). Liens vers la publication en allemand. « Classical antiquity, i.e. Greek and Roman culture in all aspects — language and economics, family and politics, law and religion, literature and art, society and philosophy — constitutes the core of this encyclopaedia. Here (classical) antiquity is conceived of as an epoch of the cultural sphere of the Mediterranean, early Greek culture as a culture on the fringes of the ancient Near East, the 'End of Antiquity' as the separation of the Byzantine, Germanic and Islamic cultures from their Mediterranean connection. Therefore, the chronological scope of the 'Antiquity' volumes of the NEW PAULY ranges from the 'Aegean Koine' (middle of the 2nd millennium BC) to the formation of early medieval Europe (AD 600 to 800).»
Des cartes géographiques interactives des différentes régions ou provinces du monde gréco-romain donnant accès à des bibliographies et webographies thématiques
La exposición Romanorum Vita es un viaje por la vida cotidiana de los romanos. Información de la exposición, propuestas educativas, rutas turísticas y actividades interactivas.
On September 20, 450 AD, the Battle of the Catalaunian Plains also referred to as the Battle of Chalons took place. A coalition led by the Roman general Flavius Aëtius and the Visigothic king Theodoric I against the Huns and their allies commanded by their leader Attila faced each other in a decisive battle that should decide the fate of Europe and the whole Western civilization...
On April 27, 1737, English historian and Member of Parliament Edward Gibbon was born. His most famous work, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, was published in six volumes between 1776 and 1788 and is known for the quality and irony of its prose as well as for its scientific historic accuracy, which made it a model for later historians.