The imagery and rhetoric of monstrosity is conspicuous in Claudian’s poems. The poet has composed two verse accounts of the Gigantomachy, one fragmentary in Greek and one incomplete in Latin; ...read more
Over the course of the 4th to the 6th centuries, the ancient world was coming to its end in the midst of massive change: the establishment of Christianity, alterations in ...read more
This research studies the changes in the late-Roman aristocracy from 565 to 641. In this period the imperial elite lost importance to the provincial one. The base of this study ...read more
The aim of the research is to trace the history of the concept of the “Second Sophistic”. This label is broadly assigned to an intellectual movement involving Greek-speaking intellectuals in ...read more
Stone domestic architecture is first encountered in north-western Gaul in the Roman period. The shift from indigenous houses in perishable materials to residences in stone is a major turning point ...read more
This project is to be situated in the field of late Latin literature and focuses on the poet Maximian (6th c.AD). His corpus consists of six elegies (686 verses in total) ...read more
Sheldon Pollock’s influential theories on the cosmopolitan and ‘secular’ nature of Sanskrit literature and the vernacularisation of regional Indian literatures as top-down processes which originate in royal courts do not ...read more
Many linguists believe that the language of our Indo-European ancestors had a considerable number of verbs which may appear both in intransitive and transitive constructions with no formal change in ...read more
The 5th century marks the transition from the Roman to the Medieval world, an essential turning point in European history. However, when we try to identify it in the archaeological ...read more
To fully understand the long development of the form-function pairings involved in the Latin tenses, we must view them as part of a system - a system that relates to ...read more