The EAWC Site Index is reserved for links to special exhibitions,
virtual centers of study, interactive resources, specific internet
indices, and other sites that do not fall easily into one of the other
categories. Resources that are generally relevant to the ancient world
appear below. To access those that are culture-specific, select a location
in the second menu box under "Navigate the EAWC Internet Index" above and
click "Go".
Ancient
Medicine from Homer to Vesalius
- Argos Limited Area Search
of the Ancient and Medieval Internet
- Argos is a search engine explicitly designed for the ancient
and medieval worlds. Using an innovative system of multiple indexing and
peer-review, Argos limits the range of search results so that users may
view only a selected portion of the internet, in this case the ancient and
medieval portions. Argos was designed by Anthony F. Beavers and Hiten
Sonpal at the University of Evansville.
- The
Asclepion
- Devoted entirely to ancient medicine and maintained by Mark Hayes and
Ethan Watrall, The Asclepion features an introduction to the field
of study and individual pages on Egypt, Mesopotamia and Greece. The section on
Greece is further divided into subsections: Medicine in Homer, The Foundations of
Hippocratic Medicine, The Hippocratic Oath, Overview of
Hippocratic Epidemics, The Hippocratic Treatise
On Fractures and The Illness of Maidens.
- Diotima:
Materials for the Study of Women and Gender in the Ancient World
- This site offers a wide variety of resources, including course
materials, bibliographies,
art
collections, essays and primary
texts on women in the ancient (Western) world. It also includes a
special page devoted to Biblical
studies and an anthology, De Feminis
Romanis: Latin Readings on Roman Women. Diotima was designed by
Suzanne Bonefas and Ross Scaife.
- The Encyclopedia Mythica:
An Encyclopedia on Mythology, Folklore, Mysticism, and More...
- This site provides a series of short glosses on characters and
elements from Chinese, Etruscan, Egyptian, Greek, Norse, Persian, and Roman mythology. The
site features only brief articles on its various topics, but it is an
excellent cross-reference resource when basic information is all that is
needed. It was developed by M. F. Lindemans.
- Glass
Throughout History
- From Focus Multimedia, this short history of glass includes separate
pages on antique,
Roman,
and Byzantine
glassware.
- Hippias: Limited Area
Search of Philosophy on the Internet
- Managed by Peter Suber and Anthony F. Beavers using software designed
by Hiten Sonpal, Hippias uses the same procedures as Argos (see
above) to create a search engine that limits the scope of its returns to
philosophy-related issues.
- The History
of Plumbing
- From Plumbing and Mechanical Magazine, The History of
Plumbing provides a fascinating examination of the role and place of
plumbing in world history. It features separate pages on Babylonia, Crete, Egypt, Greece, Jerusalem and Pompeii and Herculaneum, with
additional sections on the Roman and English Legacy and ancient locker rooms.
- Imperium
- Compiled by Joe Shetler, Imperium is a genealogical record of
the relationships between the great rules of Europe from the Roman Empire
onward. Users are invited to enter the record at key points by viewing
data for the following: Alfred the Great, King of
England, Athelstan, King of
England, Charlemagne, Frankish
Emperor, Clovis I, King of the
Franks, Justinian I, Roman
Emperor of the East, Theodoric the Great, King
of the Ostrogoths and Theodosius I, Emperor of
Rome.
- l'Atlas historique de
l'Antiquite tardive
- The Kelsey
On-Line
- From the Kelsey Museum at the University of Michican, this site
provides a small sampling of the Museum's collections and other
miscellaneous information about the ancient world. It includes a few images of objects
from the museum, exhibition brochures,
information on
the Roman Site of Karanis, Egypt and a few topographical
maps.
- The Legacy of the
Horse: A Chronological Journey through the History of Humans and the
Horse
- From the International Museum of the Horse in Lexington, Kentucky
comes this broad history of the relationship between human beings and
horses. It is divided into several sections, many of which deal with
ancient and medieval periods: The First Horses,
Early
Civilization, 30,000 B.C., The Domestication of
the Horse, The Wheel, The Reluctant Rider,
1,350 B.C., The Classical World,
700 B.C., The Horses of Homer,
750 B.C., Xenophon: The Father
of Classical Equitation, Alexander and
Bucephalus, 356-323 B.C., The Roman Empire, The Oriental
Horse, The Middle Ages, 600
A.D. and The Renaissance,
1450.
- Mediterranean
Civilizations
- From Focus Multimedia, this internet site features several glosses
(with pictures) of archeological sites and other items of interest
pertaining to regions around Anatolia and Jordan.
Mediterranean Civilizations also takes users to Ephesus, the home
of the "Ephesians" in Paul's letter, and Meletus, the birthplace of Greek
philosophy, along with many other places.
- People with a History: An
Online Guide to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans* History
- Maintained by Paul Halsall, People with a History, an anthology
of resources devoted to homosexuality and related issues in history,
includes a fair amount of ancient and medieval content. The first section
is dedicated to the
ancient Mediterranean with individual chapters for the Near East and Egypt,
Greece and Rome. The second
section, on medieval
worlds, includes individual chapters on early Christianity, Byzantium, the Latin Christian
Middle Ages, Islam and ancient and medieval
Jews.
- The Seven
Wonders of the Ancient World
- Can you name the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World? Presented by Alaa
K. Ashmawy, this site will help you with your answer. It features images
and texts for each of the seven wonders -- the Great Pyramid of
Giza, the
Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Statue of Zeus at
Olympia, the Temple of Artemis at
Ephesus, the Mausoleum at
Halicarnassus, the Colossos of
Rhodes and the Lighthouse of
Alexandria -- and provides links to other wonders
that did not make it into the seven.
- Traditions
of Magic in Late Antiquity
- Produced by Gideon Bohak of the University of Michigan, Traditions
of Magic is a pictoral tour of some of the objects associated with
magic during the first seven centuries CE. It is divided into four main
sections: Recipe
Books (display), Amulets and
Gems (display),
Babylonian
Demon Bowls (display)
and Aggressive
Magic (display).