LacusCurtius
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This article regards the LacusCurtius website, named after the Lacus Curtius in the Roman Forum.
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 May 2006 it had "2350 pages, 616 photos, 627 drawings & engravings, 72 plans, 59 maps."
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
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.
