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Nobody puts the Mainzer Steinhalle in a corner
by Chiara Cenati and Victoria González Berdús On International Museum Day, we would like to tell you a story that deeply touched us: the story of the Hall of Roman...
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Epigram of the month: Call the ancient midwife!
Tomorrow, May 12th, 2021, marks both the endpoint, and the highlight, of a very imporant week. May 6th – 12th is Nurse’s Week, and its last day simultaneously is International...
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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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Epigram of the Month: Staring into the void
It is well known that high child (and especially infant) mortality was a fact of life in antiquity. The omnipresence of this common experience did not, however, lessen the pains...
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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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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...