Quote:Does anyone know what happened to Forum Romanum? It's tragic that such a superb resource has gone - is it permanent?
Mr. David Camden was never an enthusiastic e-mailer, which of course is fine, but now it is really a bit sad that we can not reach him. Both Bill and I have written to him, but he has not replied. So, we do not know.
Rejoice!!! Apparently he backed it up better than we thought.
I do not know what happened to FR. It may be that there was a server problem. There was a lesson to this incident: how vulnerable ancient texts are - some of the texts on FR were only accessible over there. There was a serious risk that they would vanish, forever, in their digital form.
Quote:There was a serious risk that they would vanish, forever, in their digital form.
One of the more sinister aspects of the internet is that nothing ever vanishes!
Thanks for the links, Jona, and brilliant idea to use tinyurl.com for the asterisked addresses!
Last weekend, I visited the Musée de Mariemont in Morlanweltz, and added Saulzoir in northern France, which is the most likely location of the battle between Caesar and the Nervians in 57 BC. Frankly, you need a lot of imagination, but
here you have some photos and
here is Caesar's account.
A translated version of the Biblical book of
Esther, with some pictures from the place where it all happened, Susa.
Quote:Now available on a site related to Bill's: the full Latin text of Ammianus Marcellinus.
Mwoh. That one is readily available, as is a nice Dutch translation - I need an online English translation..
Quote:Mwoh. That one is readily available
There is an online edition at Forum Romanum and one at Latin Library, but please note that they contain many mistakes, which are due to poor scanning: e.g.,
cli instead of
dvi, occasionally
UCl for
uci. This one is better and will be checked against Gardthausen's Teubner.