LacusCurtius
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LacusCurtius is the ancient Graeco-Roman part of a large history website, hosted as of March 2025 on a server at the University of Chicago. Starting in 1995, as of January 2004 it gave "access to more than 594 photos, 559 drawings and engravings, 69 plans, and 59 maps". The overall site is the creation of William P. Thayer.
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Vinony's link graph records 173 inbound references to LacusCurtius, and connects out to University of Chicago, Italy and Rome.
It is catalogued under topics including American digital libraries, Ancient Roman studies and Discipline-oriented digital libraries.
Vinony links it to 8 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- digital library
- Main subject
- Roman historiography
- Official website
- penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/home.html
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- inception
- 1997-08-26
- language of work or name
- English language
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Encyclopedic overview
4 sectionsContents
- Overview
- Curation and assessment
- References
- External links
LacusCurtius is the ancient Graeco-Roman part of a large history website, hosted as of March 2025 on a server at the University of Chicago. Starting in 1995, as of January 2004 it gave "access to more than 594 photos, 559 drawings and engravings, 69 plans, and 59 maps". The overall site is the creation of William P. Thayer.
==Overview==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “LacusCurtius” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.