Newsletter: Western Classics

Western Classics

Western Classics is our newsletter from staff and students in Classics at the University of Galway (formerly the National University of Ireland, Galway).

Current issue: Western Classics 4

Download: Western Classics 4 (June 2022)

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: Western Classics 3 (Dec 2020)

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: Western Classics 2 (March 2019)

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: Western Classics 1 (March 2018)

‌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.)