Col. Rose Mary Sheldon
Department of History
Virginia Military Institute

 

Term Paper Topics

 

Your term paper will consist of a report on province or site in the Roman Empire. You may pick any site from the attached list. A site within the city of Rome itself may be possible if you check first with the professor. This is also true of Roman sites not listed.

Suggested Sites

 

Gaul (France) http://www.sc.edu/ltantsoc/geogmain.htm

http://www.ukans.edu/history/index/europe/ancient_rome/E/Gazetteer/Periods/Roman/.Texts/Ptolemy/home.html

Dacia (Roumania) http://www.ici.ro/romania/history/hi13.html

Germania/Helvetia (Switzerland/Germany)

http://www.main-vision.com/richard/Nyon.html

Spain/Portugal

http://www.ukans.edu/history/index/europe/ancient_rome/E/Gazetteer/Periods/Roman/.Texts/Ptolemy/home.html

    Richardson, J. S., The Romans in Spain

Mauretania Tingitana (Morocco)

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/anc-nafrica.html

http://www.encyclopedia.com/articles/08218.html

Britain

    Londinum

    Camulodunum (Colchester) http://www.athenapub.com/britsite/tacitus1.htm

http://www.ukans.edu/history/index/europe/ancient_rome/E/Gazetteer/Periods/Roman/.Texts/Ptolemy/home.html

Scotland

Gask Ridge Project: http://www.morgue.demon.co.uk/Pages/Gask/

Greece/Thrace/Macedonia

http://kilkis.forthnet.gr/macedonia/macedon3.html

Pannonia/Dalmatia/Raetia

http://metalab.unc.edu/expo/palace.exhibit/intro.html

Asia (Turkey)

        Byzantium

Numidia (Algeria)

Timgad: http://www.i-cias.com/m.s/algeria/timgad.htm

http://www.iversonsoftware.com/business/archaeology/Timgad.htm

http://www.citrag.it/archi/page/arches/e_ar_im10.htm

 

Lambaesis

http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/arch/staff/sites/lamb.htm

http://perseus.csad.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/text?lookup=pecs+lambaesis&vers=english

Cirta

Mauretania Caesariensis: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/anc-nafrica.html

    Shaw, Brent D., Environment and Society in Roman North Africa, 1995.

Italy

    Etruria

    http://harpy.uccs.edu/roman/html/romebib.html

Pompeii/Vesuvius – Check the bibliography on my home page.

http://www.jacksonesd.k12.or.us/k12projects/jimperry/rome.html#pompeii

http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/volc_images/img_vesuvius.html

http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/pompeii/forummap.html

Herculaneum, Pompeii and Stabiae, Cambridge, 1995.

Richardson, L. Pompeii, An Architectural History, 1988. 9W&L)

Richardson, L., "The Libraries at Pompeii," Archaeology 30/6 (1977) 394ff.

*Wallace-Hadrill, Andrew, Houses and Society in Pompeii and Herculaneum

Will, Elizabeth Lyding, "Women in Pompeii," Archaeology 32/5 (1979) 34ff.

Trajan’s Column

http://www.ukans.edu/history/index/europe/ancient_rome/E/Gazetteer/Places/Europe/Italy/Lazio/Roma/Rome/Trajans_Column/NE/11-12.html

http://www.cimec.ro/Arheologie/TrajansColumn.htm/6.htm

http://www.woodberry.org/acad/hist/CLASSICS/sites/index.htm

http://www.mclink.it/n/citrag/roma/doc/monum/emn_0000.htm

 

Africa (Tunisia)

    Carthage

        Carthage; or, The Empire of Africa, by Alfred J. Church, with the collaboration of Arthur, Gilman.Freeport, N.Y., Books for Libraries Press                              [1971]

        Rome and Carthage : the Punic Wars / by R. Bosworth Smith., New York : C. Scribner's Sons, 1883.

        Warmington, B. H. (Brian Herbert), 1924-   Carthage, Baltimore, Md. : Penguin Books [1964]

 

Dougga: http://lexicorient.com/tunisia/dougga.htm

Egypt

    Alexandria

    Haas, Christopher, Alexandria in Late Antiquity : topography and social conflict, Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.

Syria

Palmyra http://www.arab.net/syria/tour/sy_palmyra.html

 

Libya

    Lepcis Magna http://www.alnpete.co.uk/lepcis/

 

Rome

Colloseum - http://www.athenapub.com/romecol1.htm

 

Sicily/Sardinia/Corsica

   Piazza Armerina, Sicily: http://www.bluffton.edu/homepages/facstaff/sullivanm/armerina/armerina3.html

 

Sardinia: http://www.crs4.it/~luigi/SARDEGNA/sardegna.html

        Bouchier, E. S. (Edmund Spenser), b. 1876, Sardinia in ancient times, by E.S. Bouchier, Oxford, B.H. Blackwell; [New York, Longmans,                  Green and Co.] 1917.

        Matt, Leonard von, Ancient Sicily / explanatory text by Luigi Pareti ; notes on plates by Pietro Griffo;    translated from the Italian by              Muriel Grindrod, London : Longmans [1960]

 

Romanization of Italy

 

Last updated on 22 August 2003 by Col. Sheldon

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