Venice, 28 March 2018. Giornata Terra Italia Onlus “Giovani epigrafisti al lavoro”

Programme attached

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Greek Inscriptions Online (GIO, www.greekinscriptions.com) is an ongoing project undertaken by the Greek Epigraphic Society in collaboration with the Hellenic Education & Research Center (HERC) and Attic Inscriptions Online (AIO).

GIO is an online database comprising translations of ancient Greek inscriptions into Modern Greek. This important scholarly objective was initiated at the re-exhibition of the Epigraphic Museum in Athens inaugurated on the 25th of May 2017. The texts of the inscriptions on display in the exhibition of the Epigraphic Museum are translated into Modern Greek with brief commentaries and are available to the visitor on touch screens and tablets. The epigraphic material in GIO covers a chronological span from the Archaic Period to the Late Roman Times. The Modern Greek translations are accompanied by a brief epigraphical and historical commentary.

The mission of GIO is to make the texts of ancient Greek inscriptions accessible to speakers of the Modern Greek language, especially to Greek university-level students and faculty, as well as high school teachers and pupils.

GIO also seeks to promote the study of Greek language and History by emphasizing the importance of translation of ancient epigraphic documents into modern languages. It stresses the value of translating as a scholarly exercise and the importance of translation for the dissemination of the knowledge and understanding of Greek Antiquity.

GIO comprises inscriptions of the whole Ancient Greek World organized by both geographical area and chronology following the method of the corpus of the Inscriptiones Graecae.

GIO collaborates with AIO, a project founded in 2012 that publishes online translations of Attic inscriptions into English with a wealth of epigraphic, historic and bibliographic information and scholarly research. AIO has made available its unique design and infrastructure to GIO, and the two sites work closely together, sharing epigraphic texts in ancient Greek, as well as images and other data.

Andronike Makres (HERC)
Angelos P. Matthaiou (Greek Epigraphic Society)

Originally posted on ISicily by Jonathan Prag: https://isicily.wordpress.com/2018/03/04/voci-di-pietra-multiculturalism-and-integration-in-ancient-and-late-antique-sicily/

Voci di pietra: multiculturalism and integration in Ancient and Late Antique Sicily

Following on from the exhibition ‘voci di pietra’ (voices of stone) at the Museo Civico Castel Ursino in Catania, the University of Catania has joined forces with the original collaborators in the exhibition (the Museo Civico, the Comune di Catania, the CNR-ISTC, the Liceo Artistico Statale “M.M. Lazzaro”, and the University of Oxford) to bring together leading scholars on the epigraphy of Catania and ancient Sicily for a 2-day conference. The conference will take place on 16 and 17 March 2018, in the University of Catania (ex Monastero dei Benedettini, Piazza Dante) and in the aula consiliare of the Palazzo degli Elefanti, Piazza Duomo.

Appel à participation à un atelier de formation doctorale intensive en épigraphie.
Troisième édition
Poitiers, 3-7 septembre 2018

Very important opportunity for international MA and PhD students in Epigraphy. See attached file

Atelier Poitiers