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Category Archives: Carmina Epigraphica
REBLOGGED: WYSIWYG Classics, Or: Making Roman diversity visible, audible, and accessible for 21st century audiences
This blog post was originally published on CUCD-EDI. I am grateful to Elena Giusti and Victoria Leonhard for both their invaluable support and permission to re-blog! Image credit: Fabien Dany – http://www.fabiendany.com What do we want to see (and do … Continue reading
Posted in Carmina Epigraphica, Education, Poetry
Tagged Carmina Graeca Epigraphica, Decolonisation, Diversity, Education, Epigram, Higher Education, Inclusion, Poetry
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Bringing the Roman world back to life, one lap-dog at a time!
Read an interview with María Limón, Xavier Espluga, and myself about this video here: http://blogs.reading.ac.uk/classics-at-reading/2021/04/30/what-can-a-dog-called-margarita-teach-us-about-ancient-rome-education-in-the-making/ I wrote about this inscription (and inscriptions for dogs) before – find out more here: The Master and Margarita The lapidary poetics of Roman domestic … Continue reading
Posted in Carmina Epigraphica, Education, Epigraphy, Poetry
Tagged British Museum, Carmina Latina Epigraphica, Dogs, Education, Higher Education, Museum
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Herd immunity
As the UK’s ‘herd immunity’ approach to the coronavirus crisis has proven to be somewhat of a debacle, I would like to share how the farmer Sagaris protected his herd during an epidemic. His story is recorded in a Greek … Continue reading
Posted in Carmina Epigraphica, Epigraphy, Poetry
Tagged Epidemic, Greek Inscriptions, Pandemic
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People of Changing Colour
In a vitriolic letter to Marcella about one Onasus, dated to A. D. 385, St. Jerome, one of the Christian fathers, makes a remarkable, commonly overlooked statement (Letters 42.2): non et lucus ideo dicatur, quod minime luceat, et Parcae ab … Continue reading
Loneliness in Old Age
Poetry and song do wonderful and – in the truest meaning of the word: awesome – things. They allow us to create entire worlds using nothing but words. Alternative worlds in which we may explore and experience what we are … Continue reading
Posted in Carmina Epigraphica, Poetry
Tagged Abandonment, Big questions, Carmina Latina Epigraphica, Family, Food for thought, Humanity, Latin poetry, Latin verse inscriptions, Loneliness, Old age, Philanthropy, Poetry, Society
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Mini-Me
A couple of days ago, Verne Troyer died. At 81 cm (2 ft 8 in), Troyer was one of the shortest men in the world, his Wikipedia entry claims; he is likely to be remembered, most of all, for performance … Continue reading
Posted in Carmina Epigraphica, Poetry, Prose
Tagged Attila, Carmina Latina Epigraphica, Clowns, Death, Disability, Entertainment, Little people, Panem et circenses, Poetry, Sad clowns, Verne Troyer, Zercon
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In memoriam Dr Hans Krummrey (1930-2018)
A few days ago, I received the sad news that Dr Hans Krummrey, one-time director of the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum in Berlin, had passed away. It would be inappropriate for me to attempt a full obituary – there are others … Continue reading
When Harmony Disintegrates
You can choose your friends, but you can’t choose your family, the saying goes. And it made me wonder: considering that Roman literature is full of stories about family relations, how much do we really know about family life in … Continue reading
Posted in Carmina Epigraphica, Poetry
Tagged Brothers, Carmina Latina Epigraphica, Death, Family, Fate, Fates, Humanity, Moirai, Mourning, Parcae, Poetry, Siblings, Sisterhood, Sisters
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Creative Processes
In 2015, my colleague Dr Rachel Mairs and I organised an international workshop that we called ‘Materialising Poetry‘. I have very fond memories of the day, and the theme that we got to discuss with our colleagues and students has … Continue reading
Posted in Carmina Epigraphica, Poetry
Tagged Carmina Latina Epigraphica, Creative writing, Creativity, How to write poetry, Latin poetry, Nero, Ovid, Peter Robinson, Poetry, Pompeii, Tacitus, Vergil, Writing
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New Year’s Death
For at least thirty-nine people their desire to celebrate the new year ended fatally last night in Istanbul when a hitherto unidentified perpetrator marched into a nightclub and gunned down his victims. Another 69 or so have been injured. In … Continue reading
Posted in Carmina Epigraphica, Epigraphy, Poetry
Tagged Carmina Latina Epigraphica, Coping, Death, Happy New Year, Hope and Fear, Istanbul, Latin poetry, Terrorism, Violence
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