This interdisciplinary collaboration project combines the study on ancient literature and the history of science, in order to get a better understanding of a crucial stage in the history of agriculture and agronomical discourses, by analysing the topic of growing cereals and legumes in Greek and Latin agronomical discourses and particularly in Book II of Columella’s De re rustica (1st century A.D.). This research program will highlight a corpus which, despite its worth to the history of science and techniques, remains little read and studied today: for instance, Columella's De re rustica Book II has not been published or translated in France since the 19th century. The purposes of this collective research will be two-fold. Firstly, the aim of the project is to associate the research devoted to agricultural practices in Antiquity with an ideological and aesthetical analysis of this so-called technical literature. Secondly, the project will link together an edition of Columella’s De re rustica Book II with the creation of a digital corpus encoded in XML, using tools devoted to digital humanities. All the data will be available online. This digital corpus will compile ancient texts regarding the topic of growing cereals and legumes and will include in particular: the Latin agronomical discourses of Cato, Varro, Columella, Palladius; book XVIII of Pliny the Elder’s Natural History; Greek scientific literature (Theophrastus, Galen); the Geoponica; didactic poetry (Hesiod, Vergil) and relevant fragments. This broad collection of technical texts will be used to analyze the ancient agronomical precepts dedicated to similar topics by serializing and comparing the interactions between those various texts. Finally this project will produce new translations, two glossaries (botanical and technical) and thematic notes which will synthesize the results. The notes, written by an interdisciplinary team working in close collaboration, will explain the technical background by taking into account not only recent studies on ancient linguistics or rural archaeology, but also today’s traditional knowledge or practices. They will show how an agronomical knowledge was created in the Greco-Roman world in relation to specific climate and soil conditions and how it was transmitted and changed over time. They would later be useful for other research fields or studies devoted to other cultural areas. The AgroCCol project will thus make Greek and Latin agronomical discourses understandable to a large readership, by carrying out several actions: not only the Web site and the scientific edition of Columella’s book II, but also an academic blog, the publication of the proceedings of the symposium which will take place at the end of the project, an anthology of ancient agronomical texts in a collection intended for the general public, and, in collaboration with the Lyon Public Library, a virtual exhibition dedicated to the edition, translation and reception of the ancient agronomical treatises in the early modern period.

During the first half of the first millennium BC, Cyprus was divided in about ten autonomous polities, attested by primary sources (inscriptions and coins) as well as by secondary sources (Greek and Near Eastern texts). While the time of their emergence remains disputed, their disappearance can be dated towards the end of the 4th c. BC when the unified island became a province of Ptolemaic Egypt. Paradoxically, the political fragmentation of the island, which has characterized its long history, has hardly been analysed in its concrete aspects: the territories of the various kingdoms, their limits, their mode of organization (most notably their relationship with the capital-cities) and their diachronic evolution. Researching a regional case study through a multidisciplinary approach, our project aims to go beyond theoretical models. It brings together historians and archaeologists (specialists of material culture and of spatial analysis) for an entirely unique project based on ongoing, interconnected studies of three different kingdoms and tackles the complex issue of cultural and political territories on a new, regional scale. The polities of Kition, Idalion and Tamassos constitute a particularly relevant case study for several reasons. First, the three kingdoms are well documented by historical sources (literary texts and inscriptions): we know that during the Classical period (5th-4th c. BC) the kings of Kition, gained control over Idalion and Tamassos. They are also three singular kingdoms: according to traditional historiography, Kition is the model of the "Phoenician" kingdom; Idalion and Tamassos are "Greek" inland kingdoms without direct access to maritime trade. Furthermore, the three cities and their immediate surroundings are well explored by archaeology, with varied contexts (necropoleis, sanctuaries, domestic areas, palaces, secondary settlements) and abundant material evidence. Finally, they are sites where French and German teams lead field projects. In order to comprehend the history of the three kingdoms, their interrelations as well as the organization of their territorial space in the longue durée, we will mobilize all archaeological and historical sources, by crossing them and by resorting to various disciplinary approaches. The aim is to establish a first milestone for a renewed history of Cyprus in the Iron Age that is attentive to the complexity of regional developments. This first, thorough and comparative study of three neighbouring polities will pave the way for future research on Cypriot kingdoms.

IThAC aims at the study of the reception of Ancient Drama in XVIth c. Europe through the analysis of the scholarly printed paratexts of its editions, and at the diffusion of the French translation of this corpus thnaks to a dynamic website. Our hypothesis is that the gathering, translation and analysis of this corpus, which has been neglected for a long time because it was hard to find and composed in Latin, if not in Greek, will enable researchers to grasp how Ancient Drama has been first received and understood by its « inventors ». It will also help investigate how the ideas and methods at work in thoses paratexts circulated and evolved, thanks to their large diffusion made possible by printing, in the very context of the invention of modern drama and modern philology. Those paratexts, which were most of the time written by major scholars of the time, have had a wide audience and circulated much more than those written in vernacular, because Latin was then the language by scholars to communicate : by neglecting them, one omits a major stage of the intellectual debates on drama, philology and the reception of Antiquity ; by taking them into account, IThAC will help reconstructing this debates. Though there has been studies on the reception of some Ancient dramatists, and on some paratexts to their editions, this corpus has not yet been studied as a whole. IThAC, by gathering together philologists, historians of Drama, specialists of Greek, Latin and neo-Latin Drama, will study this important corpus by translating it and developing digital tools to explore it systematically. This will enable researchers to spot the major concepts used and build by the scholars and to visualise their chronology, the evolution of the nomber of editions by poet, genre, language, country ; to map places of print, nets of humanists and to highlight their collaborations. Thanks to this interdisciplinary approach of the genesis, the transformation, the evolution and the circulation of the ideas on Ancien Drama in XVIth c. Europe, IThAC will allow a new insight on the Reception of Ancient Drama, the birth of Modern Drama and more broadly on scholarship in XVIth c. Europe. It will also give access to an unknown european heritage.

PoBLAM is an abbreviation for “Poésie Biblique Latine de l’ Antiquité au Moyen-Âge (IVe-XIIIe s.) entre intertextualité et réception grammaticale“ – Latin Biblical Poetry in Antiquity and the Middle Ages (4th-13th century) between Intertextuality and Grammatical Reception. PoBLAM results from the cooperation of a French and a German group of researchers. In 2019, on the one hand, this group founded GIRPAM (Groupe International de Recherches sur la Poésie de l’Antiquité tardive et du Moyen-Âge, coordinated by Michele Cutino, Strasbourg, and Bruno Bureau, Lyon, some members come from Wuppertal, too) as an alliance of (junior and senior) researchers interested in Christian (mainly Latin, but also Greek) poetry of Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. On the other hand, the group organized two international conferences on ancient and (early) medieval Christian Poetry, one in Strasbourg (2018), entitled “Poetry, Bible and Theology from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages”, and one in Wuppertal (2019), entitled “Das Alte Testament in der Dichtung der Antike. Paraphrase, Exegese, Intertextualität und Figurenzeichnung”, financed by DFG. The project PoBLAM is intended to continue and to deepen these research efforts. The pivot of the project is the interaction of theology and exegesis on the one hand and the origin and development of an explicitly Christian poetry from classical pagan formal literary traditions on the other hand. This interaction does not only cause poetic and poetological innovations (as, for example, the origin of the biblical epic as literary genre), but also bears wide-ranging consequences in what concerns socio-cultural issues, education, and literature. Furthermore, this process finds material expression in manuscripts (we find, e.g., collections of examples for grammar lessons and classroom-orientated glosses added to Christian poetic texts) reflecting the reality of medieval classrooms. Altogether, the reception of Christian poetry brings about a fundamental change of what literature is supposed to be between Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. This change, however, leaves its indelible marks in later European culture. The linguistic and cultural setting of PoBLAM is first and foremost late antique and medieval Latin Christian poetry. In some issues, however, Greek poetry will be taken into account, too, in order to allow a comparative analysis of the situation in the Greek and the Latin world. PoBLAM has three main research interests: a) meta-intertextual structures in biblical poetry from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages, b) the impact of biblical poetry and Christian poetry in general on social life, culture, and forming of identity within Europe during the transition from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages, c) forms of reception of biblical poetry from Late Antiquity to

For many years, cultural property in general and archaeological artefacts in particular have become currencies for small-scale trafficking to terrorist financing or money laundering means for mafia organizations. The challenge of the NOSE project is to be able to implement a technical solution to protect archaeological objects as well as those involved in the preservation of these properties: from the archaeological excavation team to the museum curator. It is therefore a question of proposing a robust, durable and easily usable solution on an excavation site. In this context, a solution based on inks containing nanometric markers is envisaged. This ink will offer different levels of protection and will be easily usable by end users, i.e. archaeologists, museum curators and Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs).