Social Life & Customs

Resources in this category:

The Ancient Olympics
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/Olympics/index.html

This site uses information from the Perseus Project, a digital library on ancient Greece to exhibit information about the ancient Olympics. It includes comparisons between ancient and modern sports, ancient artwork with themes relevant to the games, and information about Olympic athletes who were famous in ancient times.

Diotima
http://www.stoa.org/diotima/

"Diotima serves as an interdisciplinary resource for anyone interested in patterns of gender around the ancient Mediterranean and as a forum for collaboration among instructors who teach courses about women and gender in the ancient world." Contains extensive searchable bibliographies on various subjects, essays, suggestions for course materials, and a Biblical Studies resources page.

Greek Costume Through the Centuries
http://www.annaswebart.com/culture/costhistory/

Information on and pictures of Greek costume from Minoan times until the 1800s, including a short mention of Roman fashions.

Images of Women in Ancient Art
http://www.arthistory.sbc.edu/imageswomen/

Art history website that presents a study of representations of women in ancient art. Discusses images of women in prehistory, Egypt, the Aegean, Palestine, Greece and 'Barbarian Women."

The Real Story of the Ancient Olympic Games
http://www.museum.upenn.edu/new/research/Exp_Rese_Disc/Medit...

How did the ancient Olympics stack up against the modern games? Were they less political? Less commercial? Find out at this site.

The Roman Empire
http://ireland.iol.ie/~coolmine/typ/romans/intro.html

Basic information on the social, cultural, and military aspects of the Roman Empire.

Vindolanda Tablets Online
http://vindolanda.csad.ox.ac.uk/

Online edition of the Vindolanda writing tablets, excavated from the Roman fort at Vindolanda in northern England. Contains an introduction to the tablets and their context, a guide to aspects of the tablets' content, and a searchable online edition of the tablets (volumes I and II).

Worlds Intertwined: The Roman World
http://www.museum.upenn.edu/new/worlds_intertwined/roman/mai...

Virtual gallery from the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Covers many aspects of Roman life.