Tag: Poetry
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A memorial for a tough woman
In previous years, on occasion of International Women’s Day, we celebrated a selection of women from across the Roman Empire: you may read our pieces here and here. In 2022,...
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The first casualty of war is truth
In 1916, just over one-hundred years ago, when the First World War was still in full swing, the Russian epigraphist Vasilij V. Latyšev (1855-1921) published a volume of the inscriptions...
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Epigram of the month: Let’s talk and write about sex!
Today marks another Epigraphy Tuesday – and the day after this year’s Valentine’s Day (which is, by the way, called Singles Awareness Day). I hope you did not let the expectations...
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Epigram of the month: Hopelessly devoted to whom?
When dealing with Latin epigraphic poetry, it is a matter of time before one encounters a text that, however easy to understand and to translate it may be, includes some...
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Workshop: But is it art? Exploring the aesthetic limits of Roman poetry (30 September – 1 October 2021)
Following our Call for Papers and Posters, we are delighted to announce the preliminary programme of our second MAPPOLA workshop “But is it art? Exploring the aesthetic limits of Roman...
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Epigram of the month: I have often visited the city of Baiae
It’s August. Our cities are burning hot and eerily deserted, our daily routine is slowed down by the high temperatures in our offices. Many of us are on vacation or...
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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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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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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,...