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Miguel Angelo Andriolo Mangini

PhD candidate in Classics at Trinity College Dublin researching the style of Virgil's Georgics

Oct 1, 2026

4:50
Can you explain, like, where you began and how you got to where you ended up?
4:57
Thank you, Christina, for directing all of this, for being our guide and coming up with the idea.
5:05
Um, you know, Patrick was talking about ways in which we can, uh, convey our research or, in my case, more like, uh, the topic of my research, the thing I study, um, to the world and so on and so on.
5:22
Um, I chose an approach which is not particularly linear.
5:27
I didn't, uh, fancy, uh, explaining, uh, and so on and so on.
5:33
Uh, because I study a poem, and that poem is or was written by Virgil, Virgilius in Latin, um, I decided to, in a way, act it out and to convey the thoughts and, you might say, emotions that are present in that poem, which is about agriculture, but about so much more.

15 MINS LATER

21:20
And I think for me, my being in the video and those, uh, commentaries that I, I made shone a light on that bit that I hadn't necessarily expected or certainly hadn't appreciated until watching it today.

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