Blog
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The first casualty of war is truth
In 1916, just over one-hundred years ago, when the First World War was still in full swing, the Russian epigraphist Vasilij V. Latyšev (1855-1921) published a volume of the inscriptions...
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Epigram of the month: Let’s talk and write about sex!
Today marks another Epigraphy Tuesday – and the day after this year’s Valentine’s Day (which is, by the way, called Singles Awareness Day). I hope you did not let the expectations...
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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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Dulce et decorum est de mortuis recordari: it is sweet and fitting to remember the dead
With the Epigram of the Month November, we are delighted to welcome our doctoral researcher Mirko Tasso as the most recent addition to Team MAPPOLA. The commemoration of the dead...
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Epigram of the month: Hopelessly devoted to whom?
When dealing with Latin epigraphic poetry, it is a matter of time before one encounters a text that, however easy to understand and to translate it may be, includes some...
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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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Epigram of the month: I have often visited the city of Baiae
It’s August. Our cities are burning hot and eerily deserted, our daily routine is slowed down by the high temperatures in our offices. Many of us are on vacation or...
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Epigram of the month: Vidi pyramidas
After a year of pandemic and deprivation, I think we all want a bit of freedom back. Yes, we used the crisis as an opportunity to be part of digital...
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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...