Blog
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The human side of the pandemic
As the world is trying to come to terms with the new coronavirus, Team MAPPOLA is doing its utmost to keep safe, working from home as best we can. As...
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Celebrating Women from across the Roman World
In anticipation of International Women’s Day, 2020, we would like to commemorate a selection of women, from all runs of life, whose existences and experiences – rich and hugely diverse...
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Housekeeping, or: Vienna’s Oldest Poetry
MAPPOLA is an ambitious project – there are literally thousands of verse inscriptions from across the Roman world, written in Latin and in Greek (and probably in a number of...
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Love of the Muses and the Graces’ Delight
Unlike other geographical contexts, the Roman province of Noricum has not (yet) yielded a rich harvest of locally produced poetry: a quick search of the evidence in the Clauss –...