Tag: Carmina Latina Epigraphica
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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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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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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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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...
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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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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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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,...