LacusCurtius is a website specializing in ancient Rome, currently hosted on a server at the University of Chicago. A website (alternatively web site or Web site, a back-construction from the Proper noun World Wide Web) is a collection of Web pages Ancient Rome was a Civilization that grew out of a small agricultural community founded on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 10th century BC The University of Chicago is a Private university located principally in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago. It went online on August 26, 1997; in January 2008 it had "2786 pages, 690 photos, 675 drawings & engravings, 118 plans, 66 maps. Events 1071 - Battle of Manzikert: The Seljuk Turks defeat the Byzantine Army at Manzikert. Year 1997 ( MCMXCVII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1997 Gregorian calendar "

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 parent site also includes a large American history section and a Gazetteer of Italy; the latter is somewhat of a misnomer, being almost entirely about central Italy, especially Umbria, for which it is a useful source. A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities is an English-language Encyclopedia first published in 1842 and then in many revised editions through A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome is a work by Samuel Ball Platner, completed by Thomas Ashby after Platner's death published in 1929 that describes Rome ( Roma ˈroma Roma is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city with more than 2 Roman Britain refers to those parts of the island of Great Britain controlled by the Roman Empire between AD 43 and 410 Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest Umbria is one of the 20 Regions of Italy. The capital is Perugia.

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. CamelCase (also spelled " camel case " and sometimes known as medial capitals) is the practice of writing compound words or phrases in which the The Lacus Curtius is a mysterious hole in the ground in the Roman Forum, now small more or less filled in and paved over with ancient stone but once said to have been

External links

• top-level entry page
• LacusCurtius