Category Archives: Carmina Epigraphica

A Latin Poem for the 25th anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall

Posted on November 9, 2014 by Peter Kruschwitz

25 years ago today – it was a Thursday –, I came home from school, in that idyllic world that was Hamburg-Harburg (Heimfeld), I chucked my school bag into a corner, and I started watching Knight Rider (’cause, as I … Continue reading →

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The Other 99%, Or: Much Ado about Nothus

Posted on November 7, 2014 by Peter Kruschwitz

Ancient literary Latin poetry – with a few exceptions such as scripts for theatrical performances, for example – is commonly regarded as an upper-class elite phenomenon, and, on average, perhaps rightly so. This observation was one of the many reasons … Continue reading →

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Trick or Treat? Torture, Death, and a Chilling Poem

Posted on October 28, 2014 by Peter Kruschwitz

Halloween 2014 is near. As every year, people around the globe will celebrate this occasion. Children and grown-ups alike will indulge themselves in the pleasurable thrill that arises from this day’s spooky combination of the fantastic with the morbid. Halloween … Continue reading →

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The Top 3 (+1) Latin Poems on STDs and Related Issues [NSFW]

Posted on October 15, 2014 by Peter Kruschwitz

This week is SHAG week at the University of St. Andrews, where I am spending a wonderful time at the moment working on my project on the Latin verse inscriptions. One aspect that makes the subject of my research so … Continue reading →

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Less is more

Posted on October 2, 2014 by Peter Kruschwitz

Today is National Poetry Day, and this year’s theme is ‘Remember’. Could there be a better occasion for me to throw in a gratuitous Latin poem from the Carmina Latina Epigraphica? No, I didn’t think so, either. So here it … Continue reading →

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Poetry Morbid and Vivid

Posted on September 29, 2014 by Peter Kruschwitz

My research on the Latin verse inscriptions is progressing nicely. Over the last week or so, I have collected and analysed the evidence for the ways in which the Romans themselves engaged with their inscribed poetry – essentially asking a … Continue reading →

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Remember Lucius M-whatsisface?

Posted on September 12, 2014 by Peter Kruschwitz

I am a lucky person. The British Academy recently awarded me a Mid-Career Fellowship for 2014-5, allowing me to work on a project on my long-standing research interest, Latin inscriptions in verse or, as they are more commonly called among … Continue reading →

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Love Bites

Posted on June 27, 2014 by Peter Kruschwitz

One of the more bizarre stories of the 2014 FIFA World Cup was the Luis Suárez biting incident: Uruguay’s striker, currently playing for Liverpool, bit Italy’s Giorgio Chiellini. Suárez has a remarkable history of this peculiar behaviour: Meanwhile, the incident … Continue reading →

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Misappropriation and Misapprehension: Vergil on 9/11

Posted on April 4, 2014 by Peter Kruschwitz

Memorials are difficult: what do we wish to remember, and how, and why? This becomes all the more apparent, the more prominent and the more emotive a monument is in its context. Recently, there has been some (renewed) debate over … Continue reading →

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Waxing Poetic: Bees and Death (and Bee Death)

Posted on April 2, 2014 by Peter Kruschwitz

The issue, and in fact the very idea, of bee death and colony collapses – a constant feature of the news for a number of years now – is deeply worrying and unsettling: how will we all survive, if the … Continue reading →

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