Our team was invited to a very interesting conference “A corpus and usage-based approach to Ancient Greek: from the Archaic period until the Koiné” (April 12-14, 2018). It was held in Riga, Latvia, just an hour flight from Helsinki. The three of us held a joint plenary talk: Martti Leiwo, Sonja Dahlgren and Marja Vierros, “Synchronic and diachronic variation as seen through documentary papyri”. The programme as a whole was delightfully full of interesting talks and the atmosphere was most enjoyable. Weather and the medieval old city of Riga were not bad either. We do hope that the organising team Rafiyenko, Seržant & Crellin will keep on arranging such fascinating academic events!

Martti Leiwo, Marja Vierros and Sonja Dahlgren in the Old city of Riga. This teamfie replicates the one taken in Mainz a couple of years ago. (Photo: Sonja Dahlgren)