Tag Archives: Verse inscriptions

CARMEN Newsletter November 2024

The CARMEN project (Communal Art – Reconceptualising Metrical Epigraphy Network), a Horizon 2020 International Training Network, that has delivered several major workshops and seven successful PhD theses, have shared a newsletter with updates on their final year. The CARMEN project … Continue reading

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New resource: A tale of two wives (and four husbands?): the story of two exceptional women from Imperial Rome

From a recent blog post on the MAPPOLA webpage: There is a new short documentary film which tells the stories of two exceptional women from Imperial Rome as told by two verse inscriptions (in Latin and Greek) preserved at the … Continue reading

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New resource: What a Dog Called Margarita Can Teach Us about Ancient Rome

The way in which inscriptions, especially verse inscriptions, are commonly presented and utilised in many museums and collections, but also e. g. in school and university curricula, leaves a lot of their potential unexplored. Interaction and engagement with such texts, … Continue reading

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Greek verse inscriptions – Venice, February 16, 2017

POESIA EPIGRAFICA – SEMINARIO DI STUDI SULL’EPIGRAMMA GRECO  Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, Sala Geymonat  Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia  16 Febbraio 2017 Programma 10.00   Ettore Cingano (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia) Epigramma iscrizionale, epos ed elegia nell’Attica arcaica: CEG 432 e CEG 47 10.45   Sara … Continue reading

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