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Category Archives: Epigraphy
Bokelmann’s shade
I am in North Frisia right now, spending a few days by the North Sea shore with my son. I fell in love with this primordial landscape when I was a child myself (rather longer ago than I care to … Continue reading
No graffiti please!
Yesterday news broke about houses that were defaced with graffiti (or, strictly speaking, dipinti – after all, the text was painted onto, not scratched into, the surface) in Cambridge – in Latin: Locus in domos … loci populum is a … Continue reading
Posted in Epigraphy, Prose
Tagged Cambridge, Graffiti, Local homes for local people, Loci populum, Locus in domos, Pompeii, Vandalism
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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
Called to the Grave
It has been almost a year since I last visited Edinburgh’s Greyfriars Kirkyard. Back to Edinburgh this week as external examiner, I found a little spare time to take a stroll to this marvellous space, and I came back with … Continue reading
Posted in Epigraphy
Tagged Afterlife, Death, Edinburgh, Greyfriars Kirkyard, James Skene, John Carmichael, Latin Inscriptions, Local history, Thomas Robertson
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Sneaking a Peek at Reading Abbey
Recently, I have not found as much time to write pieces for this blog as I used to. Summer term – exam period at Reading – is upon us, and in addition to that, I have been very busy working … Continue reading
Posted in Epigraphy, History of Reading
Tagged History of Reading, Latin Inscriptions, Local history, Reading Abbey, Reading Museum, St Albans
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Harrowing Statues: Pliny, Hannibal, and Cecil Rhodes
History is like a bad dream from which one cannot wake. Though undoubtedly related to what once must have been real, history merely exists in our collective and individual imaginations and re-imaginations. It is shaped by our fantasy and wishful … Continue reading
Posted in Epigraphy, Prose
Tagged Big questions, Cecil Rhodes, Colonialism, Imperialism, Latin Inscriptions, Memory, Oriel College, Oxford, Public History, RhodesMustFall, Statues
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A Poem Worthy of a Champion
This was an excellent weekend, as far as my Latin epigraphy geekiness goes. On Friday and Saturday, I had the immense pleasure of preparing and leading a Study Day on Latin inscriptions for the Study Centre of St. Albans Cathedral … Continue reading
First Things First
Gaius Caelius Donatus of Oppidum Novum in the province of Mauretania Caesariensis (now Ain Defla, Algeria) was really looking forward to New Year’s Day. An auspicious day, the Romans marked New Year’s Day with religious ceremonies and sacrifice (as T. … Continue reading
Let us remember that this has happened
After the disintegration of the Roman Empire in the fifth century A. D., most of the Iberian peninsula eventually became part of the Visigothic Kingdom. A successor state to the (Western) Roman Empire, the Visigoths had gained control over Rome’s … Continue reading
Baby, It’s Cold Outside: Frosty Notes from Roman Britain
Last week I gave a research seminar paper at Reading about Britain’s most ancient poetry, the evidence for which I published on this blog a few months back in a freely available and downloadable e-publication called Undying Voices. One of the … Continue reading
