A good site with information on Roman recreation and the recontruction of those games.

For the less athletically inclined Roman, board games were a way to spend otium (leisure) at home. This site is maintained by the same classicist who set up the Roman ball games site.

A Chiuthyphro favorite: something about eating history makes it seem much more tangible. Here you will find both an explanatory list of what herbs and foodstuffs Romans used in their cooking, and then a good-sized archive of recipes from antiquity (mostly from Apicius, 1^st century). Some of the dishes may seem a bit odd, but it's worth trying out a recipe or two so you can eat like a Roman.

In this game, you are in ancient Rome, and what you do will either save the Empire from ruin or bring it crashing down around your ears. There is a mystery to solve, conspirators to foil, and an empire to save…The graphics are very nice indeed as you make your way through a virtual Rome. There are plenty of resources and aids available, as well as a discussion list. The only problem of SPQR is that sometimes it loads and runs a little slowly since it's via Net, but if you can't wait, you can get SPQR on CD-Rom. Great fun!

A concise explanation complied by an enterprising classics student.

Assembled and maintained by two classicists based in Geocities, this helpful site is specifically designed to provide classically-minded homepage owners with free graphics and images. Lovely site and good graphics to download.

The site has a very large archive of images, though unfortunately they are not free to non-members. As a guest, however, you still get to see a slide show of classical images.

Modern Muses still sing their stories and songs.

A website dedicated to both the novel by Peter Graves and the 13-part BBC dramatization of that novel. As the story of the Emperor Claudius, who came to power after the assassination of Caligula, "I, Claudius" is a sprawling, delightfully convoluted look at corruption and power politics in imperial Rome. A soap opera in togas?

The powerful figure from Greek drama re-emerges on the contemporary stage. The site also has a few links to classical topics.

A wide variety of beautiful images of Greek and Roman subjects.

Join this virtual Latin club--you can log on and converse in Latin!

I'm sorry, but I couldn't quite help it. This IS the Hall of Shame, after all. The photo is from my July 1997 visit to Universal Studios in California. Universal owns the Xena and Hercules productions, and it apparently pays this fine young fellow to parade about as a Hercules lookalike. Well, it worked: we got a silly picture of it. And I hoping to be taken seriously as a classics grad student!

Where else will you find the Muses singing gospel, Hercules marketing his own action figures, and (most impossible of all) Zeus and Hera actually getting along with each other? What always gets me is Hermes looking exactly like Paul Shaffer from Letterman.

The King lives! (Sheesh.) Put together by some Finnish classicists who apparently love Elvis.

Roam the ancient world with Herc and his faithful sidekick Iolaus as they battle evil in all its forms (usually in the form of bad special effects). Still, it is a lot of fun as it reminds us to take classics with a grain of salt and a sense of humor.

Somebody has actually reconstructed a recipe for ancient Sumerian beer. I don't recommend trying it out, but here it is, taken from writings found on an amphora found at an archaeological site.

The chakram-throwing Xena and her redheaded sidekick Gabrielle have taken pop culture (and the syndicated television market) by storm in the last three years. Come and see what all the fuss is about, as ancient mythology meets contemporary feminism.

A listserve discussion group for classicists and anyone else interested in the ancient world. You may also search its archives.

The website for another classics listserve.