By Adrastos Omissi Earlier this year I went to see in the cinema what is unquestionably my favourite movie ever made, The Matrix. Despite the fact that I was confident at the age of eighteen that I had already seen the film at least one hundred times, whenever it makes an appearance in theatres –… Continue reading →
by Professor Catherine Steel The Thesaurus Linguae Latinae has been at work since 1893 to create the most detailed and comprehensive dictionary of classical Latin in existence (it has got as far as resurgo). It is an extraordinary treasure trove of information about Latin, and the entries can stimulate all sorts of ideas about the Latin… Continue reading →
By Alex Antoniou I am an ongoing collaborator with the ISicily Project, directed by Prof. Jonathan Prag (Merton College, Oxford), which seeks to digitise in open-access the entire corpus of inscriptions from ancient Sicily. In the summers of 2022 and 2023, I worked with Jonathan to catalogue and conduct autopsy on all of the inscriptions from… Continue reading →
by Costas Panayotakis For some years now I have been conducting research on farcical and rather uncouth Latin comedies conventionally called “Atellane plays” (in Latin, fabulae Atellanae), the scripted incarnation of which is now known to us only through the “fragments” (or, more precisely, literary citations) of plays composed by the playwrights Novius, Pomponius, Mummius,… Continue reading →
