LacusCurtius is the ancient Graeco-Roman part of a large history website,[1] currently hosted on a server at the University of Chicago.
It went online on August 26, 1997, a few weeks before both Wikipedia and Google; in October 2024 it had "3916 webpages, 779 photos, 772 drawings & engravings, 120 plans, 139 maps."
In the early days of the site, LacusCurtius was often the only English source online for a number of the primary texts presented.
The texts and translations are not scanned, but usually rekeyed by hand from Loeb Classical Library editions that had entered public domain, and less often from other sources.
The proper spelling of "LacusCurtius" is as a single CamelCase word, with no space; the idea was to avoid interfering with searches for the original Lacus Curtius in ancient Rome.