From Royal to Republican, by Caroline Winterer

Links to Related Web Sites

Exercise 1: Penny

History of the Lincoln Cent, U.S. Department of the Treasury
http://www.treas.gov/education/fact-sheets/currency/lincoln-cent.html

 

Exercise 2: Triumphal Arch

National Parks Service, The Jefferson National Expansion Memorial
http://www.nps.gov/jeff/

Photo Archive of Roman Triumphal Arches
http://sights.seindal.dk/sight/1196_Triumphal_Arches.html

"Triumphal Arch," Wikipedia, includes photographs and lists of triumphal arches in many different countries
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triumphal_arch

 

Exercise 3: Liberty

National Parks Service, Statue of Liberty National Monument
http://www.nps.gov/stli/

 

Exercise 4: Scipio

Hannibal Barca and the Punic Wars
http://www.barca.fsnet.co.uk/

Titus Livius, The History of Rome: the fulltext of the book from which the Scipio story was originally taken
http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/txt/ah/Livy/

Miller's The Trapper's Bride inspired a passage of a Whitman's "Song of Myself"
http://www.whitmanarchive.org/archive1/classroom/units/trapper2.html

The painting by Sir Anythony Van Dyck upon which the engraving by Earlom (Image A) is based
http://www.chch.ox.ac.uk/gallery/painters/vandyck.html

Links to other "Continence of Scipio" art works that portray the Scipio story

 

Links last verified March 2005.