Tag Archives: Carmina Latina Epigraphica

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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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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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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Disappearing into thin air

Posted on March 18, 2014 by Peter Kruschwitz

The mysterious story of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 is likely to fill news media for the foreseeable future: how can a Boeing 777 disappear into thin air? What happened to its passengers? Who was (or is) involved in this? The … 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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