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CLASS 1516: Are You Not Entertained: Gladiators in Ancient and Modern Society (Fall 2024)

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Scholarly Images

  • JSTOR Images contains more than 1.4 million images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences. Most (but not all!) of images are of archival or museum materials.
  • The British Museum. Excellent collections for Antiquity.
  • The Portable Antiquities Scheme Archaeological objects found by members of the public in England and Wales.
  •  Beazley Archive at Oxford University
    The Archive contains the world's largest collection of photographs of ancient Greek painted pottery, as well as relevant books and offprints, extensive material on the history of gem-collecting, and thousands of other documents and photographs relating to classical archaeology and to Sir John Beazley. Many of the Archive's images are available online, but the Archive's library remains a resource of central importance for research on classical art.
  • Ancient World Image Bank through Flickr 
    A collaborative effort to distribute and encourage the sharing of free digital imagery for the study of the ancient world.

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