

Iron slave collar, Roman, fourth-sixth century CE

The inscription says "I have run away; hold me. When you shall have returned me to my master, Zoninus, you will receive a gold coin (solidus)"

Writing and Citing Sources

OWL Purdue Online Writing Lab has help ranging from getting commas right and forming parallel phrases to dealing with writer's block and forming a thesis to evaluating and citing sources.

Diana Hacker and Barbara Fister, Research and Documentation Online, 5th edition, shows you how to cite sources in MLA, APA, Chicago, and the Sciences

Literature Reviews (UNC Chapel Hill) explains why a literature review and some possible ways to organize one

Helen Mongan-Rallis, Guidelines for Writing a Literature Review (written from a social science perspective, but still quite useful since it offers step by step suggestions)

Dictionaries

Lewis and Short, Latin Dictionary (Perseus)

Glossa: a Latin Dictionary, based on Lewis and Short, provides much more thorough definitions for Latin as it was used from antiquity to the middle ages (a third way)

Texts