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• "Fairies and Gods": A Socio-Religious Context forKing Lear

  http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/iemls/shaksper/files/FAIRES%20ANDGODS.txt

  Wylie, Jessica. "Faires and Gods: A Socio-Religious Context forKing Lear." SHAKSPER viaEarly Modern Literary Studies. Wylie explores the Celtic-pagan and Roman influences of and the interplay of these influences inKing Lear:

  keywords: celtic, king, Lr, lear, pagan, roman, religion

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Criticism > Individual plays > King Lear

  valid as of 2005-09-08

• An Online Encyclopedia of Roman Rulers and their Families

  http://www.roman-emperors.org/

  Can't remember who came first, Didius Julianus or Pertinax?De Imperatoribus Romanis: An Online Encyclopedia of Roman Emperorswill be able to tell you:

  keywords: roman, encyclopedia, emperors, empire

  found in: Renaissance Sites > Pre-Renaissance Materials > Classical

  valid as of 2005-09-15

• Classical Myth

  http://web.uvic.ca/grs/bowman/myth/index.html

  Classical Myth: The Ancient Sourcesis available from the University of Victoria's Greek and Roman Studies department. Includes both text and images from major figures in Greek and Roman mythology. This page features mostly Classical sources, but some Renaissance sources as well:

  keywords: myth, greek, roman

  found in: Renaissance Sites > Pre-Renaissance Materials > Classical

  valid as of 2005-09-15

• The Internet Classics Archive

  http://classics.mit.edu/Browse/

  Lives of the Ancient Greeks and Romansis available atThe Internet Classics Archive. This translation is by John Dryden rather than by Sir Thomas North, whose edition Shakespeare knew well. Click on Plutarch in the left frame, then on the name of the figure whose biography you seek:

  keywords: greek, roman, dryden, plutarch

  found in: Renaissance Sites > Pre-Renaissance Materials > Classical > Plutarch

  valid as of 2005-09-15

• The Internet Classics Archive: 441 searchable works of classical literature

  http://classics.mit.edu/

  The Internet Classics Archiveat MIT has 441 works of classical literature by 59 different authors, including user-driven commentary and "reader's choice" Web sites. Mainly Greco-Roman works (some Chinese and Persian), all in English translation:

  keywords: classic, archive, greek, roman

  found in: Renaissance Sites > Pre-Renaissance Materials > Classical

  valid as of 2005-09-15

• TheJulius CaesarSite

  http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/JC

  The admirable Perseus Project has a site onJulius Caesar. A work in progress, the site includes various editions of the text of the play, copious amounts of scholarly criticism from 1623 to 1913, and many Roman materials:

  keywords: caesar, criticism, jc, julius, perseus, roman

  found in: Shakespeare Sites > Research Resources > Individual plays > Julius Caesar

  valid as of 2005-09-09