Author: Peter Kruschwitz
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REBLOGGED: WYSIWYG Classics, Or: Making Roman diversity visible, audible, and accessible for 21st century audiences
This blog post was originally published on CUCD-EDI. The author is grateful to Elena Giusti and Victoria Leonhard for both their invaluable support and permission to re-blog! Image credit: Fabien...
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What a dog called Margarita can teach us about Ancient Rome
The way in which we – as academics, students, or the general public – encounter Roman inscriptions today has very little to do with the way in which these inscribed...
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Epigram of the month: The ballet of the seasons
No doubt! Spring has sprung in Vienna (and in Berlin, where I spent my Easter vacation – and where I took the photo, on the left). We – and all life...
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CfP: MAPPOLA Workshop ‘But is it art? Exploring the aesthetic limits of Roman poetry’
“Though traditional metrics describes everything, it explains nothing, merely bogging students down in detail and leading them to wonder how Terence ever wrote a line without a German philologist to...
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Celebrating Women from across the Roman World (II)
Last year, we celebrated International Women’s Day with a piece that commemorated a selection of women, from all runs of life, whose existences and experiences – rich and hugely diverse...
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Guest blog: Greek epigram in the Roman west, by Gideon Nisbet
We are delighted to share the script of the brilliant presentation that Gideon Nisbet (University of Birmingham) gave on occasion of our first MAPPOLA workshop. Gideon has now published his...
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Workshop: Latin Poetry in the Greek East & Greek Poetry in the Latin West (25-26 February, 2021)
Following our Call for Papers and Posters, we are delighted to announce the preliminary programme of our first MAPPOLA workshop “Latin Poetry in the Greek East & Greek Poetry in...
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The Poetics of a Cemetery for the Nameless
‘Vienna’ is not just a place: it is an idea of a place, as it exists in everyone’s head. Yes, its centre is insanely beautiful, designed to give even the...
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Laughing with tears (but not in the way you think), or: Introducing our Epigram of the Month series
With several thousand items of evidence that we deal with in the MAPPOLA project, studying the treasure trove that is the verse inscriptions of the Roman empire, we encounter fascinating,...
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CfP: MAPPOLA Workshop ‘Latin Poetry in the Greek East & Greek Poetry in the Latin West’
Research context Certain narratives die hard, and one of the particularly persistent narratives in our field, told in a range of nuances from the simplistic to the somewhat more refined,...