Before the summer started, I had the opportunity to visit the Asklepieia of Kos and Paros for my research. Although I had been studying the Asklepieion of Kos since the first year of my PhD and was relatively familiar with the sanctuary and its sources, this was the first time I had visited the site.…
This year’s Enlight (formerly U4), a Winter School that offers PhD candidates the opportunity to present their work to peers and professors from various European universities, was themed ‘Big and Small, Global and Local: Dimensions of Antiquity’. The University of Tartu organised it in collaboration with the Finnish Institute at Athens, the Belgian School at…
Just before the Christmas break, the Dutch National Research School for Classical Studies, in collaboration with the Classics faculty of the University of Groningen, orchestrated a day exclusively dedicated to Aristophanes’ “Wealth,” with a specific focus on scenes related to the sanctuary of Asklepios. This Text-in-Context day provided Research Master students and PhD candidates from…