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New publication - Inscribing Flavian Rome: Epigraphic Strategies in Martial’s Epigrams by Alessandra Tafaro

Mon, 22 Sep 2025 07:44:01 GMT

Former PhD student at Warwick, Alessandra Tafaro is pleased to announce the publication of her monograph, derived from her PhD.

The Art of Veiled Speech, from Antiquity to Modern Times: 1st May 2025, 4pm

Thu, 24 Apr 2025 11:59:00 GMT

Subtexts are all around us. In conversation, business transactions, politics, literature, philosophy, and even love, the art of expressing more than what is explicitly said allows us to live and move in the world. But rarely do we reflect on this subterranean dimension of communication. Words don't just say what they say, and often we can understand (as listeners) and convey (as speakers) more, or something else entirely, than what is expressly said. Every day, we send out double-meaning messages and decipher those sent to us by others, without even taking notice. Greco-Roman rhetoric provides invaluable theoretical tools for thinking about this phenomenon, notably with the rhetorical notion of “figured speech”. History offers striking examples of the use of innuendo in ancient and modern political contexts. In personal and public life, veiled speech has many functions, including diplomatic, poetic, humorous and polemical. It also raises difficulties, as it carries the risk of misunderstanding. Criteria can therefore be proposed to remedy uncertainty and guarantee interpretation.

Upcoming Lectures on Seneca by Victoria Rimell

Mon, 05 Feb 2024 12:10:00 GMT

Lectures relating to Leverhulme Research Fellowship project, Care of the Other: Seneca and the Work of Mourning.

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023

Sun, 04 Jun 2023 19:49:36 GMT

Latest Material Musings blog post: "Burying a Lightning Bolt"

Mon, 27 Sep 2021 09:38:30 GMT

Material Musings: "It's all fun and games in the gymnasium of Ancient Messene"

Thu, 29 Apr 2021 10:27:00 GMT

New blog post by Matthew Evans on gaming boards incised into the steps in the gymnasium at ancient Messene.

Read the post here

PG Open Day on Wednesday 2 December

Mon, 23 Nov 2020 16:53:00 GMT

A PG Open Day for PhD and MA studies will take place on Wednesday 2 December.

Inaugural Lecture of Prof. Victoria Rimell

Fri, 27 Sep 2019 14:22:00 GMT

Professor Victoria Rimell will give her inaugural lecture on Wednesday 9 October at 5.15, Oculus building OC0.04. The lecture will be followed by a drinks reception.

Title: ‘Care of the Other: Classical Literature, Consolation and the Healing Arts’

ALL WELCOME!

Classical Texting- "Prudens Simplicitas: The Decline of Simplicitas"

Fri, 15 Dec 2017 10:42:49 GMT

Martina Russo, PhD candidate in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at Warwick, has published on the concept of simplicitas in Latin Literature. Read it here.

IAs International Visiting Fellow Basil Dufallo: research seminar and public lecture 28th Feb 2018, 2nd March 2018

Fri, 03 Nov 2017 15:56:18 GMT

28.02 - Research seminar: Oculus 01.02, 4pm

‘Queer tales of getting lost in Republican poetry’

2.03 -Public lecture and reception: Oculus 0.03, 6.15pm

‘Disorienting Empire: Poetry and Imperial

Expansion in Ancient Rome’

Prof. Dufallo is Associate Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Michigan. He is the author of The Ghosts of the Past: Latin Literature, the Dead, and Rome’s Transition to a Principate (Ohio State University Press, 2007) and The Captor’s Image: Greek Culture in Roman Ecphrasis (Oxford University Press, 2013) and has edited, with Peggy McCracken, Dead Lovers: Erotic Bonds and the Study of Premodern Europe (University of Michigan Press, 2006). Current projects, to be explored during the Warwick Fellowship, include a book - Founding Error: Wandering and Roman Expansion in Republican Latin Poetry - and an edited volume, Roman Error: Classical Reception and the Problem of Rome's Flaws, forthcoming in the Classical Presences series at OUP (February, 2018). These twin volumes investigate the processes of disorientation or getting lost in Roman Republican texts, and consider how these processes express ambivalent attitudes toward Rome’s rapid imperial expansion in the 3rd-1st centuries BCE.