Category: Poetic Landscapes
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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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Thoroughly Shaken
In A. D. 551, disaster struck in Smyrna (today: İzmir, in Turkey) in the shape of a great earthquake. The earthquake is mentioned in a poem that has been included...
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Behind the scenes: Mors immatura at the Mainzer Steinhalle
by Victoria González Berdús and Yolanda López Sánchez (Universidad de Sevilla, FPU predoctoral researcher funded by the Ministerio de Universidades, Gobierno de España, within the CLEO project), our academic visitor...
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Guest blog: Strangers in a strange city
Davide Massimo writes about his work and time at Vienna, where he was a visiting researcher of Team MAPPOLA in February and March 2022, enabled by kind support of Österreichischer...
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Poetic dispatches from the Dacian Limes
Team MAPPOLA (Chiara Cenati, Alexander Gangoly, Victoria González Berdús, Tina Hobel, Peter Kruschwitz, Denisa Murzea, Mirko Tasso) report on their first epigraphical expedition. A Romanian version of this piece has...
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Epigram(s) of the month: The poetics of the Merry Cemetery
There are many incredible, beautiful, and curious places in the world to explore for anyone who, like us at the MAPPOLA project, wish to study the poetics of death and...
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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: Roses are red, violets are blue…
We like talking about death,what about you? Nowadays, February is commonly associated with Valentine’s day. Slowly but surely, little reminders start popping up around us coming the end of January...
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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...