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Lecture by Professor Edmondson
Next Tuesday, October 28th, at 12 noon in the Sala Académica of the Faculty of Philology, Professor Henry T. Edmondson III, from Georgia College and State University, Milledgeville (Georgia, USA), will give a lecture on “Aristotle and Leisure.”
Seminar Épica flavia e interludios virgilianos
On Monday, 22 September 2025, the Faculty of Philology at USC will host the sixth edition of the international research meetings organised by the Group for Classical and Medieval Studies (Clasmed, GI–1908). The seminar Épica flavia e interludios virgilianos will...
V Encuentro de Actualización Científica de ClasMed – Lunes 26 de mayo
El próximo lunes 26 de mayo se celebrará el V Encuentro de Actualización Científica del grupo de investigación ClasMed, una jornada dedicada al intercambio académico en torno a la lingüística latina y griega, en memoria de la profesora Concepción Cabrillana. La...
New book on ancient Greek religion
Professor Ángel Ruiz has just published in the Temas de Historia Antigua collection of Editorial Síntesis a manual, Introducción a la Religión Griega, which aims to bring to a broader public a fundamental reality in the Greece of the past and with important...
Two courses organized by Clasmed, on classical art and databases
As part of the Master’s Degree in the Teaching of Classical Languages for Secondary Education of the USC, Clasmed organized the course Myths and Images: A Pedagogical Blast. It was taught by Professor Fernando Domènech, senior teacher at IES María Casares, and held at...
3rd Workshop The Gods of Anatolia and Their Names
The 3rd Workshop The Gods of Anatolia and Their Names, the third scientific meeting of the coordinated projects in which the USC project The Gods of Anatolia and Their Names in the Hittite and Luvite sources of the second millennium (PID2021-124635NB-C33) is...
Scientific knowledge and texts in Antiquity. A dialogue between philology and history of science. May 9th, 2025
In this seminar, the development of the sciences in Antiquity and their importance for understanding ancient texts and authors will be discussed — a topic that is usually not covered in study programs. It will be delivered by Prof. Pablo Rodríguez Liboreiro...
A book by Petrarch, translated by María José Martín Velasco
In this invective, in epistolary form, translated from Latin by María José Martín Velasco, Francesco Petrarca expresses his rejection of the concept of knowledge as an accumulation of information lacking existential relevance, and defends the value of knowledge to...
Critical Edition of Julián de Toledo on Belgian Publisher Brepols
Professor José Carracedo Fraga has just published a volume in the prestigious Corpus Christianorum collection (# 115C) published by the Belgian publisher Brepols containing a critical edition and study of the Latin grammatical treatise by the Visigothic teacher and...
Dr. Cabrillana’s Passing
The Research Group “Classical and Medieval Studies” (GI 1908) regrets to announce the death, on January 27, 2025, of Concepción Cabrillana, Professor of Latin Philology at the University of Santiago, who belonged to this Research Group from the beginning. and was its...
A new book by professor Varela Rodríguez on worship to saint James
Professor Varela Rodríguez has just published the volume: Más allá del Códice Calixtino. Otros textos en torno a Santiago el Mayor hasta el siglo XII (Santiago de Compostela, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, 2024). This book contains a collection of texts or...
An article in The Classical Quarterly
The journal Classical Quarterly (Cambridge University Press) has just published in its 78th volume the article by Professor Cecilia Criado entitled “The Guilt of Cadmus the Farmer in Statius’ Thebaid”, which can be accessed openly at...
A medical treatise from the late 16th century is published, with the collaboration of Professor Ruiz Pérez
The Peter Lang publishing house in Berlin has just brought to light the edition with introduction and notes of a work of medical content published in 1597: La conservación de la salud del cuerpo y del alma, by the doctor and professor at the University of Salamanca,...
De Gruyter publishes the Proceedings of the 21st International Colloquium on Latin Linguistics
These volumes contain a selection of contributions first presented at the 21st International Colloquium on Latin Linguistics, held in Santiago de Compostela (2022). They cover essential topics in Latin linguistics from a variety of theoretical and methodological...
PUBLICATION OF THE VERSION NUMBER 20 OF THE CORPUS DOCUMENTALE LATINUM GALLAECIAE (CODOLGA) AND THE FIRST VERSION OF THE FONTES TEXTUAIS DA GALICIA MEDIEVAL (FONTEGAM)
The Corpus Documentale Latinum Gallaeciae (CODOLGA) project has just published version number 20 of its textual database. This project is directed by USC Professor of Latin Philology Xosé Carracedo Fraga and has been developed for almost 30 years within the framework...
New bilingual edition of Virgil’s Aeneid, by retired professor Dulce Estefanía
The edition of the translation, accompanied by a comprehensive introduction and an extensive apparatus of notes, is particularly useful as it is bilingual. The colour illustrations from the Codex Vaticanus latinus 3225 add to the value of the volume.
Susana Dubois Silva defended her doctoral thesis, with the title “Léxico de El rapto de Helena de Coluto”
On March 15th, Susana Dubois Silva defended her doctoral thesis, with the title "Léxico de El rapto de Helena de Coluto", under the direction of Helena Rodríguez Somolinos, from the CSIC and with María Teresa Amado Rodríguez, USC, as a tutor. She obtained the highest...
Programming Initiation Course. Classical Philology
From March 18th to 21th, the ClasMed Group will organize an introductory course on programming for students and young researchers of Philology of the USC. You can consult the program here https://clasmedusc.es/index.php/formacion/ The course is directed by Cecilia...
Three papers on the Codex Calixtinus by Professor Anguita Jaén
Almost simultaneously, three papers by Professor José María Anguita Jaén have recently appeared on the Codex Calixtinus. The first of them («Pictavenses contra Cornubianos: unha polémica literaria con transfondo político entre Jofre de Monmouth e Aimerico Picaud»...
A study by Dr. Gómez Seijo on the Helen who did not go to Troy is published in the De Gruyter publishing house.
Dr. Francisca Gómez Seijo has just published Rescuing Helena. Characterization of Helen in the eponymous tragedy of Euripides in the prestigious German publishing house De Gruyter, a monograph on that character in the tragedy of Euripides. Helena never loved Paris nor...