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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...
The critical edition, translation and study of the Excerpta sancti Gregorii and the dubious works of Taio of Zaragoza have been published.
Professor Varela Rodríguez has just published, through the SISMEL-Edizioni del Galluzzo publishing house, a monograph that comprises critical edition, translation, study, and commentary on the sections currently preserved from the Excerpta sancti Gregorii by Taio of...
New translation of Virgil’s Aeneid by Emerita Professor Dulce Estefanía
This new translation of the Aeneid by Dulce Estefanía constitutes a revision and update of the version that was edited and reprinted numerous times by Bruguera (between 1968 and 1984) and finally by Promociones y Publicaciones Universitarias (1988). Accompanied by an...
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...