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Classics: Images
Images and Maps
- ARTstor
A digital library of over 2 million images and media files covering the arts, architecture, humanities, social sciences, and sciences with tools for teaching, research and study. See ARTstor's complete list of available collections. Anyone can browse ARTstor collections using a computer on UNC campus. In order to view full size images and download or save content, however, you must first register for an ARTstor user account. For more information, see the library's ARTstor guide.
- Oxford Art OnlineProvides a single portal for searching across several major art encyclopedias and dictionaries, including Grove Art Online, Benezit Dictionary of Artists, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms. Entries include bibliographies for further research, images, and often examples of artists' signatures.
- PleiadesPleiades is a community-built gazetteer and graph of ancient places, including the Graeco-Roman world.
- Stanford Digital Forma Urbis Romae ProjectThe Stanford Digital Forma Urbis Romae Project is a collaboration between Stanford University and the Sovraintendenza ai Beni Culturali del Comune di Roma. They have amassed the many extant fragments of the Forma Urbis Romae, a map of Rome, under one database.
- Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World byISBN: 069103169XIn 102 full-color maps spread over 175 pages, the Barrington Atlas re-creates the entire world of the Greeks and Romans from the British Isles to the Indian subcontinent and deep into North Africa.
Marble Funerary Inscription
Roman, 2nd-3rd century CE. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.