Larger sites

• The single best site is James J. O'Donnell's Worlds of Late Antiquity.
• Paul Halsall's Byzantium: The Byzantine Studies Page will interest most readers.
• DIR--De Imperatoribus Romanis, an encyclopedia of the Roman emperors. DIR includes:
• The Imperial Index and the Alphabetical Imperial Index, both of which give access to the encyclopedia articles. 
• Imperial Stemmata (Family Trees)by Michael di Maio, Jr. 
• The DIR and ORB Antique and Medieval Atlas by Christos Nüssli. 
• The Imperial Battle Index by Hugh Elton (consisting of Imperial Battle Descriptions and Imperial Battle Maps
• The Virtual Catalog of Roman Coins by Robert W. Cape, Jr., Austin College. 
• The Société des Bollandistes has been promoting the study of saints' lives since the 17th century. Their web site lead to a number of hagiographical resources. 
• Bill Thayer maintains two big sites on the Roman World: LacusCurtius: Into the Roman World and the RomanSites Archive, a massive hot list. I highly recommend them.
• Portraits of some later Roman emperors, provided by Justin Paolo.
• The Ecole Initiative is a hypertext encyclopedia of early church history.
• Diotima: Materials for the Study of Women and Gender in the Ancient World is a very rich site, with lots of useful links.
• Ulrich Schmitzer's list of electronically available articles may prove useful.

More specialized sites

• Jewish Roots of Eastern Christian Mysticism is an online seminar moderated by James Miller and Andrei Orlov.  A great deal of original and bibliographical material is posted on the site.
• The Ammianus Marcellinus Electronic Project was created by Jan Willem Drijvers and his students at Gronigen University.
• The basic sources for Roman Law are available in translation as The Civil Law, thanks to the Constitution Society.

The British Academy's Projet Volterra site provides scholarly guides for the study of Roman imperial legislation.

Tim Spalding has put together a web directory on the sixth-century rulers Justinian and Theodora and their historian, Procopius. The site includes the Atwater translation of Procopius' Secret History. 

Olof Brant, on behalf of the Swedish Institute in Rome, maintains a site on the still-standing Roman church of San Lorenzo in Lucina.

Joel D Kalvesmaki has compiled a comprehensive site on the fourth-century ascetic writer, Evagrius Ponticus.

There is now a site for Groupement de Recherches Textes pour l'histoire de l'Antiquité tardive (THAT), a research group dedicated to supporting editions, translations and commentaries of texts from Late Antiquity. 

Howard A. Landman's Hypatia of Alexandria site -- a collection of sources and opinions on the famous female pagan philosopher of fifth-century Alexandria.

A tour of Diocletian's palace at Split.

The Alacami: Excavation, survey and three-dimensional reconstruction of a late Roman basilica in Cilicia (Southern Turkey) by Richard Baylis, University of Newcastle upon Tyne.

Hugh Elton, an expert in Late Roman warfare, maintains a Warfare in the Ancient World site which includes bibliographies, syllabi and other materials.  (He also has three articles on military history accessible from the ORB Late Antiquity in the Mediterranean index).

Peter Green has an extensive site on the Roman Military Sites of Britain.

Suda On Line is a collective effort to create and make available an English translation of the Suda, a 10th century Byzantine Greek historical encyclopedia of the ancient Mediterranean.

The Petronian Society Ancient Novel Page.

Virgil in Late Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance: An Online Bibliography.

Luke Lavan's Home Page includes details of his research on the metropolitan cities of Late Antiquity and links to other resources.

Celia Chazelle's Early Medieval Forum has a useful collection of links.

Two geneaological sites with Late Antique material: Imperium is an effort to trace the geneaological links between European rulers. The index to Imperium is here. The Directory of Royal Genealogical Data is another site with a similar purpose.

Paul Halsall maintains a Listening to Medieval Music site for his students at the University of Northern Florida.   It contains valuable information about ancient and late ancient music, too.

Last updated February 18, 2003.

 This page created December 9, 1999.

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