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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...
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...
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...
Dr. Martín Velasco, in the Fourth International Conference on Greek Philosophy
Dr. María José Martín Velasco took part in the IVth International Conference of the Iberian Society of Greek Philosophy (SIFG) with a paper on The value of persuasive discourse in the different stages of tragedy. Her paper revolved around one issue: how Athenians were...
Professor Cabrillana publishes Thomas More, as translator, with Erasmus, of Lucian
Erasmus of Rotterdam and Thomas More published a Latin version of works by Lucian of Samosata, a Greek author of the 2nd century AD. C., originally from Syria and famous for his wit. A copy of this book, published in 1521, is preserved in the old collection of the...
New Book: “Scripta Manent”: nuevas miradas sobre los estudios clásicos y su tradición
"Scripta Manent: nuevas miradas sobre los estudios clásicos y su tradición " has just been published. The volume, edited by L. Camino Plaza, M. Giadás Quintela, E. Giunchi and I. Pedreira Sanjurjo, collects the contributions presented at the VIII Congress of the...
Two predoctoral researchers from the Classic and Medieval Studies Research Group will participate in the X Ganymede National Congress
The next 9, 10 and 11 March will take place at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the University of Granada (UGR), this year's Ganymede National Congress, also being the tenth anniversary of this event that brings together every year young researchers related to...
Professor García Trabazo organizes a workshop within the framework of the research project on Luwian languages (Anatolian)
The Workshop that will take place on Thursday 24 and Friday 25 has the same title as the Research Project in which it is inserted: The Luwic Dialects of the Anatolian Group: Writing Systems, Grammar, Lexicon and Onomastics. The project is divided into two coordinated...
A Lecture by professor Ruiz on Comedy in The Symposion by Plato
In this year's Course on the Philosophy of Man 2021/2022, organized at the Fundación Universitaria Española in Madrid by Dr. Salvador Antuñano, Professor of Ancient Philosophy at UFV, which this year has a title Initiation to Greek Philosophy II: from Plato to...
Professor Anguita publishes a paper on the legendary origins of the Vasques in the Codex Calixtinus
José María Anguita Jaén “El primer relato sobre el origen de los vascos: Iulius Caesar ut traditur (Liber sancti Iacobi 5.7)” Anuario de Estudios Medievales 51.2 (2021) 497-531. Study of a short story, presented as traditional in the Codex Calixtinus (Liber sancti...