Situation: I have to do some project into an aspect of ancient rome.

Problem: sure, there is colosseum and circus maximus, but i cannot find any sufficient amount of material on the internet. ideally, i would like to write lots and lots on a district of ancient rome, like subura or the palatine hills.

Possible Solution: does anyone know any sites that are all about ancient rome and where i can gather information on things like the above?

Thanks!

Have you tried your local library?
With books like ...

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (8 vols)
Daily Life in Ancient Rome: The People and the City at the Height of the Empire
Life and Letters from the Roman Frontier
The Ancient Roman World
Everyday Life in Ancient Rome
Roman Britain: Life in an imperial province
Roman Life in Pliny's Time

You can also get these at Amazon, B&N, BAM, etc.

Might not be as easy as the internet but it will contain far more information. I googled a few things and check ask.com et.al. and got 100's of 1000's of returns. I'm sure the information you seek is out there if you look hard enough. Remember nothing worth having comes easy.

Good luck and I would like to see the final essay\project.

There are some resources online with original texts, etc., from the classical era (i.e. Greece and Roman, maybe some pre-Alexander Egypt). I want to say the University of Virginia has one, but it's been awhile so I might be misremembering.

ok. thanks. the word limit is 2200 words. i could write about a roman piece of string and do more than 2200 words.

Situation: I have to do some project into an aspect of ancient rome.

Problem: sure, there is colosseum and circus maximus, but i cannot find any sufficient amount of material on the internet. ideally, i would like to write lots and lots on a district of ancient rome, like subura or the palatine hills.

Possible Solution: does anyone know any sites that are all about ancient rome and where i can gather information on things like the above?

Thanks!

Try http://www.forumromanum.org/index2.html

DOH!


I have that site bookmarked and didn't even think of it.

Books will always be your friend when it comes to research. The internet is too vast and too inaccurate in some regards to be anything more than a basic guideline. There is a HUGE tendancy for people to reference Wikipedia here when it comes to history, which is actually incredibly frowned upon in history academics simply because Wikipedia can be easily edited and/or inaccurate and would discredit any point made on that basis alone.

I also would say... word limits are always a rough guide. You can usually break them by a few hundred words if the content of your essay does not permit cutting.

One thing about Wikipedia: If you think some info is false, you could try to check it in a different language, that often works for me. (Ofcourse, you have to understand some languages.

Try http://www.forumromanum.org/index2.html

WOW! what a site! thanks for that one

I also would say... word limits are always a rough guide. You can usually break them by a few hundred words if the content of your essay does not permit cutting.

yes, the word limit is 2000 words, but you are allowed 10% on top of that.

One thing about Wikipedia: If you think some info is false, you could try to check it in a different language, that often works for me. (Ofcourse, you have to understand some languages.

wikipedia didn't even have material i needed.

one and a half lines for subura! :lol:


HOWEVER, i'm still not quite sure what to write about. What do people think? Circus Maximus, Subura (poor rome district) or Palatine Hills (rich rome dsitrict)?

thanks for everyone's help by the way :goodjob:

If it was me I'd write about the common roman citizen, I have a huge collection of roman history book and about every other history you can think of and the beat the rich and really rich roman history to death and there really isn't that many works out there about the day to day doing of the common citizen in Subura.
I mean sure it interesting to see how the Ceasars lived but how did the folks that kept the machine going live? Thanks my interest (at the motion.) Think about it in 2000 years people will know about Bush, Blair, Queen E II etc but what will they know about you and me and 99.9% on the planet right now? What will they really know, will they know the truth of our little lives?

In 2000 years, I suspect the World Wars and, most likely, the Dawn of the Transportation, Electronic, Nuclear, Space, Technology, Computer, and Medicine Age (that is still playing out) will get more columns than the current War on Terror, much like how the Caesar Chronicles (aka the Fall of the Roman Republic) gets way more press than the happenings of any of the Emperors and almost all of the non-leaders of the period (one particularly religious carpenter excepted, of course).

If you are interested in Subura, go for it. There should be something about the place, since Julius Caesar himself was described to have lived there before becoming Pontifex Maximus (by a site I quickly went to since I had never heard of Subura before, http://www.roman-empire.net.

edit-link repaired... thanks.

(by a site I quickly went to since I had never heard of Subura before, http://www.roman-empire.net).

Link repaired.

http://www.roman-empire.net/

Link repaired.

http://www.roman-empire.net/

thanks for that link, added it to favourites :)

i was talking to my latin teacher, and i have now (half) decided to: "compare the diets of the poor and the rich of rome".

in this way, i can talk about the supply and demand of stuff, "exotic" foods, etc. etc..

i was talking to my latin teacher, and i have now (half) decided to: "compare the diets of the poor and the rich of rome".

in this way, i can talk about the supply and demand of stuff, "exotic" foods, etc. etc..
I seem to recall some historian or other concluding that the majority of the subjects of the Roman empire subsited on a daily diet of dark bread, water, vinegar and onions...:scan:

While the fare of wealthy Romans has been described as fatty, soggy, often rancid and at times half-rotten (added to the flavour it seems)...:crazyeye:

What pleased a Roman palate may have been rather different from us.

Will you be including a section on the role of the "vomitorium"?:)

I seem to recall some historian or other concluding that the majority of the subjects of the Roman empire subsited on a daily diet of dark bread, water, vinegar and onions...:scan:

While the fare of wealthy Romans has been described as fatty, soggy, often rancid and at times half-rotten (added to the flavour it seems)...:crazyeye:

What pleased a Roman palate may have been rather different from us.

Will you be including a section on the role of the "vomitorium"?:)

i saw somewhere that rome had its own versions of mcdonalds (well, ancient roman versions) where meat would be cooked constanly all day at a stall in the street, where people can just approach and buy some. fast food, roman style.

i saw somewhere that rome had its own versions of mcdonalds (well, ancient roman versions) where meat would be cooked constanly all day at a stall in the street, where people can just approach and buy some. fast food, roman style.
Yup, seen that mentioned too. With "garum" (that vile fish sauce) as the condiment of choice for want of ketchup.;)

Actually with regards to Roman fast-food and eating habits IIRC it might have to do with restrictions on the use of fire indoors in Roman insula. It was simply very hard to do any kind of cooking in your home. (Seem to recall reading about this stuff in Carcopino's "Daily Life in Ancient Rome".)

Just to update on this, I never did this work, I opted to do an easier test in Roman daily life instead.

Have you considered talking about the forum in Rome, or are you focusing more on the lives of "Average Joe Roman"?

If so, then perhaps you could talk about the services that they could recieve on a daily basis, the meals they ate and that kind of thing.

Hey, this just popped up when I opened this link on the History Channels website:
http://www.history.com/topics.do?type=topics&subject=worldhistory

Or perhaps this site on daily Roman Life:
http://www.uvm.edu/~classics/webresources/life/

The info can be a little sketchy on that site, but what is there is decent.

No, I am not doing it.

Situation: I have to do some project into an aspect of ancient rome.

Problem: sure, there is colosseum and circus maximus, but i cannot find any sufficient amount of material on the internet. ideally, i would like to write lots and lots on a district of ancient rome, like subura or the palatine hills.

Possible Solution: does anyone know any sites that are all about ancient rome and where i can gather information on things like the above?

Thanks!

I suggest studying the architecture of Ancient Rome. There are several books and documentaries available. You could build a scaled down model of one the famous buildings such as the Pantheon (http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Pantheon.html).

Does anyone listen anymore? I am not writing any report at all! Ever!