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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...
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...