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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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 Rodrigues (Univ. of Lisbon). The examining board, composed of doctors José Luis García Ramón (Universität zu Köln), Alberto Bernabé Pajares (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) and Mariona Vernet Pons (Universitat de Barcelona), awarded the thesis the grade of Outstanding cum laude.
In his research, João Paulo Galhano observes and evaluates Hittite lexical sensitivity to the semantic field of emotions. In this way, the ability to lexicalise what is modernly included under the lexical category of emotions is examined.
This is the first time that a thesis on the Hittite language has been defended at the University of Santiago. The importance of the study of Hittite lies in the fact that it is the Indo-European language with the oldest documentation of the whole linguistic group. Therefore, its study is irreplaceable for the reconstruction of the common prehistoric IE language, and therefore to know the evolution of our linguistic family.
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...
Professor Río Torres-Murciano publishes the critical edition of the epic fragments of Francisco de Terrazas
Antonio Río Torres-Murciano, Professor at the National Autonomous University of México and external collaborator of the Research Group on Classical and Medieval Studies, has just published in the series Textos y Estudios Coloniales y de la Independencia (TECI) of...
Professor Varela Rodríguez publishes the critical edition of the Fragmenta expositionis in Ecclesiasten by Gregory of Elvira (4th century) and a medieval commentary based on them
Joel Varela Rodríguez, Professor at the Department of Classical, French and Italian Philology and member of the Research Group on Classical and Medieval Studies, has just published in last number of Wiener Studien – Zeitschrift für klassische Philologie, Patristik und...
Disciplinary problems in 1866 at the University of Santiago: a document vividly
Professor Ángel Ruiz Pérez, from the Department of Classical, French and Italian Philology, has just published an article in Sarmiento, Revista Galego-Portuguesa de Historia da Educación, about an episode that occurred in 1866 between a professor of Greek, Santiago...