The Research Group “Classic and Medieval Studies” at the USC (GI-1908) is formed by researchers on Greek and Latin texts at the Department of Classical, French and Italian Philology at the University of Santiago (in its campuses of Santiago de Compostela and Lugo)
Since 2015 is a Competitive Reference Group recognized by the Xunta de Galicia. This website is intended to serve as a way of communicating research results, as a presentation space of its activities and as a space for connection among researchers
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Julia Hombre takes part in an International Conference on Nonnus of Panopolis

From May 17th to May 20th at Universidad Complutense de Madrid took place a new edition of the international conference Nonnus of Panopolis in Context V: Poetic Frontiers, organized by David Hernández de la Fuente and Laura Miguélez Cavero.
PhD student Julia Hombre contributed to this edition with a dissertation titled “Ominous omens, broken lineages. Reading the Dionysiaca as the story of a family”, in which she suggests the possibility of reading Nonnus of Panopolis’ Dionysiaca as the family tale of the Cadmeans, being Dionysus the most prominent member of this family, instead of reading the poem as just the tale of Dionysus.
The researcher José María Anguita Jaén proposes the old novels by Dictis and Dares as models for the Pseudo-Turpín and the Historia regum Britanniae by Geoffrey of Monmouth.
From April 19 to 21, 2021, the Instituto de Estudios Medievales y Renacentistas (IEMyR) of the University of La Laguna organized its thirty-third annual seminar, under the title "Story, invention and lies in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance" (online in this link),...
A book about Moby Dick and the symbology of the classical world
Moby Dick. Alegoría y mito. El trasfondo simbólico del mundo grecolatino, by Dr. María José Martín Velasco, is a book that has just come to light in Eolas Ediciones. It discusses the extent to which Melville had soaked himself in Greco-Roman culture and had...
New Doctoral Thesis on Emotions in Hittite Texts
On Thursday 2 March, João Paulo Galhano defended his PhD Thesis on “Hittite Emotions in Lexical and Semantic Grounds. A research into the history of emotions through the hittite records”, supervised by José Virgilio García Trabazo (Univ. of Santiago) and Nuno Simões...
Two researchers publish in the same issue of Hispania Sacra
In the recently published issue of the Hispania Sacra magazine, from the CSIC Institute of History, two members of the Classic and Medieval Studies Research Group have published articles. Professor Varela Rodríguez in his article “Trezenzonio, revisitado. Noticias...
Eleonora Giunchi defended her doctoral thesis entitled “The lexicon of combustion in Greek literature. Meanings and Representations”
Last Monday, December 12nd, the candidate Eleonora Giunchi defended her doctoral thesis entitled “The lexicon of combustion in Greek literature. Meanings and Representations” directed by Ángel Ruiz Pérez. The Thesis Committee, that was comprised of professors Emilio...
The researcher Manuel Mayo participates in the II Complutense International Congress of East Asia
From November 28 to December 2, 2022, the II Complutense International Congress of East Asia will take place at the Complutense University of Madrid, entitled Supernatural Asia: religion, ritual and folklore in Asia. In this context, the researcher in training Manuel...