December | 2015 | Classics at Glasgow

Bits and Pieces of Roman Public Speech

Published on: 11th December 2015 Author: Catherine Steel (with Christa Gray) Leave a comment

One of the research projects currently underway in Classics at Glasgow is looking at the fragments of Roman oratory from the Republican period. This project (‘The Fragments of the Republican Roman Orators, www.frro.gla.ac.uk), funded by the European Research Council, aims to gather and make sense of all the evidence for public speech in the Republican… Continue reading →

An exciting manuscript re-discovery in the field of Latin moral sayings

Published on: 3rd December 2015 Author: Costas 1 Comment

Who says that working on Latin manuscripts and moral sayings is a dull pursuit? For about six years now I have been travelling to Italy, Germany, and France to gather information from several manuscripts so as to edit afresh an important collection of Latin one-line “sayings” or “proverbs” (sententiae or proverbia), which, despite its massive impact… Continue reading →