Events
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A tale of two wives (and four husbands?): the story of two exceptional women from Imperial Rome
by Chiara Cenati and Davide Massimo Latin and Greek inscriptions are often inaccessible for those who are not from the field. This is particularly true for verse inscriptions. Long texts...
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A busy summer (and autumn) for Team MAPPOLA!
We have not been as active on our blog recently as we used to be – not a sign of general inactivity, but quite the opposite! The last months have...
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Workshop: But is it art? Exploring the aesthetic limits of Roman poetry (30 September – 1 October 2021)
Following our Call for Papers and Posters, we are delighted to announce the preliminary programme of our second MAPPOLA workshop “But is it art? Exploring the aesthetic limits of Roman...
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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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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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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,...