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Thesis’ Defense of Elena García Paleo
On September 18, 2026, Elena García Paleo defended her Doctoral Thesis—Ritual Aischrology and Alexandrian Literary Debates: A Comparative Study of the Poetics of Callimachus and Apollonius of Rhodes in Light of Ancient Hermeneutics—supervised by Associate Professor of...
The Adulteress Punished on the Platerías Portico
José María Anguita Jaén, a professor of Latin Philology in Lugo, has just published an extensive and in-depth study regarding the image of a woman holding a skull to her bosom—sculpted on the Platerías Portico of the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela (ca. 1100)....
7th International Research Meeting
Organizada polo Grupo de investigación de Referencia Competitiva“Estudos Clásicos e Medievais” (CLASMED GI-1908) DE LA ANTIGÜEDAD A LOS ALBORES DEL RENACIMIENTO: ESTUDIOS SOBRE LENGUA, TEXTOS Y MOTIVOS LITERARIOS 29 de septiembre de 2026Sala Académica – Facultade de...
Collective volume in memory of Manuel Cecilio Díaz y Díaz
The publishing house SISMEL-Edizioni del Galluzzo has just released the volume Autori, testi e manoscritti fra la penisola iberica e l’Italia: da Gregorio Magno a Gregorio VII. In ricordo di Manuel Cecilio Díaz y Díaz, which contains several contributions consistent...
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.