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A Latinist with marked philological and linguistic interests, her research focuses on Latin literary texts transmitted on papyrus, on education and grammar in Rome, on fragmentary Latin literature ...
At his first international appearance on Monday, De Wever - a witty Latinist in Belgium known for his Roman idioms and one-liners - said he was not immediately recognised by fellow EU leaders at ...
New right-wing Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever said he wants to cool the European Union's "regulatory fervour" to boost corporate competitiveness and that European Union defences should ...
Born into a royalist and devout Catholic family, the founding father of the Olympic Games drew on various religious influences promoting the cultivation of body and spirit to develop his project ...
The alarming rise of BlueAnon After the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, left-wing conspiracy theories have proliferated.
I am not an anatomist, but as a Latinist, while I agree that shorter phrases are useful as a practical shorthand, they can create massive problems when applied to the names intended for a global ...
The third point might convince me, a Latinist, most of his importance, but his steadfast faith and defenses against Protestantism are what brought him to the forefront as a saint.
The extraordinary thing, as Katharina Volk, a Latinist at Columbia University, emphasizes, is that the same six or seven men were responsible for all of it. Well, not all the political unrest, of ...
The head Latinist of the Vatican’s State Department had tapped Foster to write papal correspondence, which was at the time composed entirely in Latin. Foster wanted the job but was bound by a vow of ...
Father Foster has just opened a new Latin academy in Rome near the Pantheon, in his final effort to preserve the official language of the priesthood. But the chief Latinist, who has translated ...
Janet Martin, associate professor of classics, emeritus, and an expert in medieval Latin, died of cardiovascular disease at home in Princeton, New Jersey, on Aug. 30. She was 84. She joined the ...