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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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Carmina for the Nymphs – Reading the verse inscriptions of Aquae Iasae
by Chiara Cenati and Csaba Szabó “The poets say that the Nymphai (Nymphs) live for a great number of years, but are not altogether exempt from death.” Pausanias, Description of...
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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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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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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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ARCHEO feat. MAPPOLA
We at Team MAPPOLA think that it is absolutely crucial to explain what we do to audiences beyond academia. A few months ago, for example, we reported on our activities...
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Mirko Tasso receives the Premio di Laurea Lucilla Ranzato 2021-22
We at Team MAPPOLA celebrate the award of the prestigious Premio di Laurea Lucilla Ranzato (2021-22) to our doctoral researcher Mirko Tasso. The premio is awarded by the University of...
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All, all are sleeping, sleeping, sleeping on the hill
With this instalment of our Epigram of the Month series, I would like to take a short break from Latin poetry and move far away, both geographically and chronologically, to...
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A memorial for a tough woman
In previous years, on occasion of International Women’s Day, we celebrated a selection of women from across the Roman Empire: you may read our pieces here and here. In 2022,...