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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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 Mayo participates in a table on rituality in Japan with a presentation entitled “ Ἄρκτος, ḫartak(k)a, bjǫrn, matu and kamui: the sacred bear. A shamanic link between Indo-European and Asian religions”. The work will focus on raising the differences and similarities between Indo-European and Asian cults dedicated to the bear, using shamanism and religious zoomorphism as a meeting point between two apparently different worldviews.
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...
Professor Cabrillana, named as a Member of the International Committee on Latin Linguistics
Concepción Cabrillana, Professor of Latin Philology, has just been appointed member of the International Committee on Latin Linguistics. The announcement was made at the closing session of the 21st International Colloquium on Latin Linguistics, held at the Faculty of...
CODOLGA, a database on Latin Texts in Galicia, keeps growing
The Corpus Documentale Latinum Gallaeciae (CODOLGA) project has just published a new version of its database, number 18. This project is directed by Professor Xosé Carracedo Fraga of the USC Department of Classical, French and Italian Philology, and is developed...
The difficulties of Latin in Bosnia: a teacher from Mostar, in Filoloxía
Jelena Jurčić, from the Department of Latin and Roman Literature of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Mostar (Bosnia) has carried out a stay at the Faculty of Philology of the USC, within the framework of Erasmus exchanges for...