Category Archives: Carmina Epigraphica

The cold grave that is the deep, deep sea

Posted on March 23, 2014 by Peter Kruschwitz

There still is no (confirmed) trace of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370. The last few days, however, saw a number of reports that focused on (potential) debris in the Indian Ocean, and the continuous silence of flight systems and crew, passengers, … Continue reading →

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The Power of Song and Music at Pompeii

Posted on February 28, 2014 by Peter Kruschwitz

Clearly some houses at Pompeii are more prone to disaster than others. Not only was dwelling III 5.1, the shop and house of Pascius Hermes, destroyed and covered by volcanic matter just like everything else at Pompeii: it was damaged … Continue reading →

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Hot Air and Sage Advice, or: Human, All Too Human (A Blog Post for Free Thinkers)

Posted on January 16, 2014 by Peter Kruschwitz

There has been a remarkable wave of outputs recently, traditional and web-based, that conceptualised the wish to find ancient Roman fore-runners of the walls of social media, counterparts for toilet graffiti and related witticisms, or at least some proto-memes by … Continue reading →

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Digesting Food for Thought

Posted on December 19, 2013 by Peter Kruschwitz

Travel broadens the mind, they say. This may not always be the case, but it most definitely was my experience when I was fortunate enough to attend the conference ‘Manuscripts and Epigraphy’ in mid-November, impeccably organised by the Centre of … Continue reading →

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Hope and Despair in Roman Britain

Posted on August 10, 2013 by Peter Kruschwitz

Originally published on the Classics-at-Reading blog: The Yorkshire Museum in York houses a most impressive collection of Roman inscriptions from York and the immediate vicinity. On occasion of a trip to Yorkshire in August 2013, I was finally able to … Continue reading →

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