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Epigram of the month: A (slightly belated, but heartfelt) Happy New Year, right after Blue Monday!
When the excitement of the New Year’s Eve with its squeals of happiness and colourful fireworks is finally over, when all the various superstitious rituals, in accordance with local customs...
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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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Epigram of the month: But Is It Art?
In the November edition of our recently launched Epigram of the Month series, Alexander Gangoly pointed out the very special relationship of the people of Vienna with their cemeteries. Vienna’s...
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Epigram of the month: Discover your inner Epicurean!
Last month we launched our new series ‘Epigram of the Month’, and we laughed with tears about an astonishing piece selected by Prof. Peter Kruschwitz. This month, Alexander Gangoly, doctoral...
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Sic mundus creatus est, or: Roman Highway to Hell
(by C. Cenati, V. González Berdús, D. Murzea) The Romans did not carve lanterns out of pumpkins, most likely, but nonetheless they had their own way of celebrating Halloween, and...
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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...
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Laughing with tears (but not in the way you think), or: Introducing our Epigram of the Month series
With several thousand items of evidence that we deal with in the MAPPOLA project, studying the treasure trove that is the verse inscriptions of the Roman empire, we encounter fascinating,...
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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,...
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Filling a void, or: Celebrating Black History Month
Diversity and inclusion, in conjunction with an interest in regional variation and change, are aspects that are at the heart of the MAPPOLA project and its research into the poetic...
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Towards a more inclusive Classics
On June 25–26, 2020, Prof. Barbara Goff (Reading) and Dr Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis (St Andrews) held a (virtual) two-day workshop ‘Towards a more inclusive Classics‘, hosted by the Institute of Classical...