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Matthijs Wibier in UC News

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Read the article by Michael Miller in UC News on Matthijs Wibier, who "edited and translated a Latin legal text he pieced together from fragments that surprisingly survived in the Egyptian sands for more than 1,600 years.

What’s less surprising? It’s about taxes"!

Matthijs presented his recent edition and translation of a previously unknown Roman legal text in a paper titled "The Penn Parchment: A Collection of Roman Imperial Constitutions from the Late Fourth Century in the Penn Museum".

 

Gisela E. Walberg (1943-2026)

Gisela Walberg
We share with great sadness the passing of Gisela E. Walberg, Marion Rawson Professor of Aegean Prehistory Emerita in the Department of Classics at the University of Cincinnati, who died on July 24 at the age of 83.
 
A distinguished Bronze Age Aegean archaeologist, professor Walberg joined the University of Cincinnati Classics faculty in 1979. She remained an active and prolific scholar, as well as a dedicated teacher and mentor, until her retirement in 2011. Her many contributions to the field included directing excavations at Midea in Greece and Episkopi-Bamboula in Cyprus. 
 
Beyond her scholarly achievements, she was also known for her kindness, generosity, and commitment to animal welfare.
 
Visitation will be held on Tuesday, August 4, at the Spring Grove Cemetery’s Norman Chapel at 9:00 a.m., with a funeral service following at 10:00 a.m.
 

Zoe Stamatopoulou on Plutarch's Symposium of the Seven Sages

Congratulation to Zoe Stamatopoulou, who was invited to present a lecture titled "Progeny and Prodigy in Plutarch's Symposium of the Seven Sages" on April 6, at the University of Colorado Boulder, Department of Classics!
Periander head
Head of Periander, Tyrant of Corinth, and one of the seven wise men of Greece. Roman copy of a lost original of the 4th century. Cook 2013, nr. 266