Roman History Books and More

goethe's italian journey

More from David Derrick's The Toynbee convector, on one of my favorite reads: Goethe’s Italian Journey.

The book itself in translation:  Italian Journey: 1786-1788 (Penguin Classics)

Online, it's available in German only:

• ItaIienische Reise, vol. 1
• Italienische Reise, vol. 2
• Italienische Reise
• Wiedergeburt in Italien

before this gets lost in the shuffle: illustrations to ovid's metamorphoses

From The Ovid Project. The text links for the Baur – in German – are next to the plates:

• The Metamorphoses by Ovid. Engravings by Johannes Baur. 1703.
  (A couple of typos:  It should read Verwandelungs Bücher, and the artist is Johann Wilhelm Baur)
• Ovid's Metamorphosis Englished Mythologized and Represented in Figures

Image: Baur Plate 3: Aetas aurea

for german speakers: plekos – online periodical on late antiquity

In my search on information on the terminology/dating of  Late Antiquity I stumbled over the German online periodical plekos:

plekos
Periodicum OnLine zur Erforschung
der KOmmunikationsstrukturen in der Spätantike

(Online Periodical for the Research of
Communications Structures in Late Antiquity)

For full articles through 2006, you have to click on the HTML links, beginning 2007, everything is in PDF format.

barthold georg niebuhr (1776-1831), german statesman, diplomat, and historian

While googling for Gn. Pompeius Strabo for our current book chat, The Grass Crown – with not much success – I found these Google Books:

Lectures on the history of Rome (from the earliest times to the fall of the Western empire), Volume I and Volume II by Barthold Georg Niebuhr, Taylor and Walton, London 1844.  (There is obviously more to come.)

The lectures were first published between 1811 and 1832. 

Barthold Georg Niebuhr (1776-1831) was a German statesman, diplomat, and historian.

ancient transportation blog and more…

I had meant to do this for quite a while, and my mind was jogged by David Meadows’ classicarnival of today.

Budding archaeologist Kristian Minck of Denmark has a greatly informative and well illustrated blog,  Ancient Transportation: Roman wagons and beyond.  If you look at the categories, it is nicely organized and also has a separate “still running” bibliography, which however, is largely in German.

All I can contribute to the subject are photos of a reconstructed Roman travel carriage from the Romano-Germanic Museum in Cologne, Germany.  (Click on image for more views.)

This is a latish Roman carriage, bits and pieces of which were found north of Thessaloniki.

for german speakers: “abenteuer archäologie” website

Nach umfangreichen Renovierungsarbeiten öffnet die Zeitschrift »Abenteuer Archäologie« am 28.9.2006 ihre neue Webseite.  Unter www.abenteuer-archaeologie.de wird neben Bewährtem auch viel Neues präsentiert.  Die Besucher können in allen bisher erschienenen Ausgaben des Magazins zu recherchieren, Abonnenten können darüber hinaus sämtliche Artikel online lesen und ausdrucken.

Außerdem bietet die Redaktion zukünftig regelmäßig und kostenfrei Nachrichten über die wichtigsten Erkenntnisse archäologischer Forschung und die spektakulärsten Funde. 

Im Rahmen einer Medienpartnerschaft mit dem Deutschen Archäologischen Institut wird zudem die Heft-Rubrik DAI International jeder Ausgabe als PDF-Datei zum Download bereit gestellt. An anderer Stelle werden Stipendiaten des DAI ein Jahr lang über ihre Reise um die Welt berichten.   Mit den Bildern einer Ausstellung lädt die Redaktion zum virtuellen Besuch in ein Museum ein.

Die Überarbeitung der Webseite geht mit dem Erfolg von Abenteuer Archäologie auf dem Zeitschriftenmarkt einher.  Im August 2006 hatte die Heidelberger Spektrum der Wissenschaft Verlagsgesellschaft eine Erhöhung der Erscheinungsweise von drei- auf zweimonatlich verkündet.

Please note that part of the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut site is in English, see left-hand column & drop-down menues at top.

roman villas in the provinces

A post in rogueclassicism today,  Excavating a Commodan Villa  and the related website about the  Gayton Thorpe Villa Project  near King's Lynn in Britain, brought back memories of my visit to the Roman Villa in Ahrweiler, Germany in 2003,  and I brought that page up and updated it – there are always disappearing URLs, and new links if one is lucky, and I did find two of the latter ones:  even though they are in German, you can enjoy the photos.

So here is the villa rustica at Ahrweiler, and lots of photos, mine and others'.  Don't miss the miscellany page.

Model of the villa rustica

theodor mommsen at livius.org

livius.org now has a comprehensive article on the 19th century German historian Theodor Mommsen.

At the bottom of the page, Jona Lendering lists a biography of Mommsen in German by Stefan Rebenich,  Theodor Mommsen, Eine Biographie.   I wrote a review a while ago, and for German speakers, I can highly recommend it.

German Speakers may be also pleased to see that more works by Mommsen are available now in print.  If you go here and click on the author's name, you'll get them all.

I've blogged Mommsen earlier also.

My own page with various links.

Theodor Mommsen (1817-1903)

Theodor Mommsen, the eminent 19th century German philologist, legal scholar and historian, gained his early reputation through the collecting of Latin inscriptions, Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum (see also) as source work for the until then almost exclusive ancient literary knowledge of the Roman antiquity, as well as coins. His two major works in his prime were Roman Constitutional Law and Roman Criminal Law. He was a foremost innovator in the study of Roman history, which would never be the same thereafter.

For German speakers: Archäologie Online

www.archaeologie-online.de - Entdecken Sie Archäologie neu!

A portal to what's going on in the world of archaeology, the German way. Originally a commercial site, is is now managed by three volunteers. It has these features:

Magazin: Focus points (Schwerpunktthema, Fundpunkt), news round-up, TV programs, calendar of events, etc.
Guide: Over 5,000 categorized links to other archaeology sites
Bibliothek: New books, reviews (Rezensionen), CD-ROM's, downloads, etc.
Newsletter
Suchen & Finden: expanded search feature
Forum: Forums, classified, polls, etc.
Archäologie Online Club (special access options to the site)

for German speakers: Gregorovius, Der Kaiser Hadrian

Project Gutenberg has the text of:

Der Kaiser Hadrian, by Ferdinand Gregorovius, 1884

For more on Gregorovius, see Historians and their Craft: The Evolution of the Historical Hadrian