Dr Thomas R.P. Coward

Marie Curie (@MSCActions) Research Fellow @Bristol_CLAH. Honorary Fellow @Durham_Classics. Hesiodic Catalogue, literary fragments, (Herculaneum) papyri, Rhodes.

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Livy (and Vergil?) gets the musical treatment.

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Rome on All Saints’ Day

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Next Wednesday @ClassicsUCD, I'll be speaking once again about Philodemus' On Piety. This time about the remains of an unpublished column on the nature of the gods (perhaps in Socrates and Plato?). There'll be some provisional new column numbers too! Registration details below.

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Cats of Largo di Torre Argentina

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Extreme measures needed. Upgraded from 15cm callipers to 30cm callipers.

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Pompei: quando la grande arte entrava anche nelle piccole case. Dagli scavi in corso nell’insula dei Casti Amanti un nuovo esempio di casa senza atrio riccamente decorata ⤵️ https://t.co/CXJt1LFrvY @MiC_Italia @GZuchtriegel @albertoangela

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Forum of Trajan

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First letter from 6th May 1769 begins with “I would not know where to begin to give a proper idea of the Herculenaum papyri…the story is long and confusing…”

Yes, we’re not alone then.

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Back to the SNSP library at Castelnuovo to read Piaggio’s Memoirs. Written 1769-71, they provide information on the discovery and unravelling of the Herculaneum papyri. There is no full transcription or translation of the work.

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Assorted basilica

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Ovid would be proud.

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Happy to kick off the seminar programme @Bristol_CLAH by talking about Philodemus as a compiler of myth and how to reconstruct a carbonised and fragmentary papyrus roll.

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Chiesa della Santissima Trinità dei Pellegrini: before and after.

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Around the Forum

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Back in the Officina. Today I’m checking and verifying the circumferences/volute I’ve mapped out on the digital maquette against the cornice to see if the columns can be sequenced correctly.

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Musée Cernuschi, Paris 4/4

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Musée Cernuschi, Paris 1/4

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Musée Cernuschi, Paris 3/4

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Paris