The Academy
The ancient world as the great Victorian dictionaries described it: thirty-four thousand articles on gods and heroes, the army, the city and daily life, gathered here into themes. Every Latin word in them can be read on hover.


Jupiter, Juno and Minerva on the Capitol, the household Lares and Penates, and the many gods of Rome and Greece.

The legion, its camp and standards, armour and weapons, and the triumph that crowned a victory.

Rome and its buildings: forum and temple, circus and amphitheatre, baths, bridges and aqueducts.

Dress, the house, dinner, the baths, marriage and funerals, slaves, names and the calendar.

The lives of the authors you read: Cicero, Caesar, Livy, Tacitus, Catullus, Plautus and others.

From Augustus to Constantine: the men who ruled the Roman world, as the ancient sources tell it.

Latin grammar, section by section
Allen & Greenough's New Latin Grammar, the standard reference since 1903, in 642 sections from the alphabet to the scansion of verse.
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Places of the ancient world
Ten thousand cities, provinces, rivers and peoples, from Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography.