Tag: death
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Guest blog: Strangers in a strange city
Davide Massimo writes about his work and time at Vienna, where he was a visiting researcher of Team MAPPOLA in February and March 2022, enabled by kind support of Österreichischer...
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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: 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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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: 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 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...