Newsletter: Western Classics

Western Classics

Western Classics is our newsletter from staff and students in Classics at the University of Galway.

Western Classics 5

Download: https://doi.org/10.13025/30223

Editor: Luke McDermott  

Contents: 

• A Fistful of Land
• Coming Home to Heraldry
• A Letter from Lisbon
• Ovid in a Mayo Bog
• 1.33, Embodied Research, and the Meaning of Words
• Borrowed Beliefs: The Journey of Christian Words into Irish
• A Linguistic Recipe for an Irish Christmas Cake
• The Grammar of the Hidden
• Pausanias as Method
• Res gestae: staff news
• Current Postdoctoral research
• Current PhD research

Western Classics 4

Download: https://doi.org/10.13025/9ps7-7561 

Editor: Andrew Levie

Contents:

• War and heroism in 2022
• What’s in a name—(Ancient) Classics?
• Talking the talk: Gilgamesh in Conversation
• Virgil and Hungarian war poetry
• Ekphrasis: Visualizing the verbal in ancient and contemporary poetry
• The repercussions of a horse
• Absence and voids in times of disease
• Res gestae: staff news
• Current Postdoctoral research
• Current PhD research
• Parting images from Rome

Western Classics 3

Download: https://doi.org/10.13025/n6gz-h631

Editor: Grace Attwood

Contents:

• Johannes Scottus Eriugena and Gothic Architecture
• Culinary Chauvinism: From Caesar to the Coronavirus
• Lorenzo Valla in the Time of Social Media
• The Island Child: An Interview with Molly Aitken
• All Roads Lead to Rome
• Intentional Obscurity and “Divine Speech” in Early English Texts
• Mathematica Romana
• Ireland and Carolingian Brittany: Texts and Transmission
• Res Gestae: Staff News
• Current PhD Research

Western Classics 2

‌Download: https://doi.org/10.13025/t187-ns62

Contents:

• Senatus Populusque Galviensis
• Ireland and Carolingian Brittany: Texts and Transmission
• Res gestae: staff news
• Current PhD research
• Taking manuscripts to school
• Losing a Greek vase
• Notes from another West Coast
• In memoriam
• Away from Ogygia

Western Classics 1

Download: https://doi.org/10.13025/ps22-a156

‌Contents:

• University Teaching—the skills agenda
• Res gestae: staff news
• Current PhD research
• A thought on Heraclitus
• Latin biblical commentaries
• Remembering Ma Heavey
• New databases
• Events and photos
• Colm Luibhéid’s passing

(Our cover image, the Pylos Combat Agate, is used courtesy of the Department of Classics, University of Cincinnati.)