Hamilton College alumna and Baylor University Classics Professor Amy Vail '84 will give a lecture, "The Case of the Disappearing Skull – Et in Arcadia Ego," on Thursday, Nov. 1, at 4:10 p.m., in the Science Center's Kennedy Auditorium. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Vail, a 1984 graduate of Hamilton, majored in German and classics. She earned a master's degree from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, then studied at the University of Durham, England. After returning to the U.S. she earned a Ph.D. at Ohio State University.
Her research interests in 18th century German literature and Homeric epic are reflected in her book The Last of Homer's Children: Goethe Singing Epic, to be published this year by the Edwin Mellen Scholarly Press. Her lecture will address the question of why so many people have mistranslated the phrase "Et in Arcadia ego." She will argue that paintings by Guercino, Poussin and Seekatz offer clues but that Vergil's Eclogues suggest a likely answer.
The lecture is sponsored by the Departments of Classics and Art History, with support from the Winslow Lecture Fund. For more information contact Carl Rubino, Hamilton College Department of Classics, (315) 859-4283.
Vail, a 1984 graduate of Hamilton, majored in German and classics. She earned a master's degree from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, then studied at the University of Durham, England. After returning to the U.S. she earned a Ph.D. at Ohio State University.
Her research interests in 18th century German literature and Homeric epic are reflected in her book The Last of Homer's Children: Goethe Singing Epic, to be published this year by the Edwin Mellen Scholarly Press. Her lecture will address the question of why so many people have mistranslated the phrase "Et in Arcadia ego." She will argue that paintings by Guercino, Poussin and Seekatz offer clues but that Vergil's Eclogues suggest a likely answer.
The lecture is sponsored by the Departments of Classics and Art History, with support from the Winslow Lecture Fund. For more information contact Carl Rubino, Hamilton College Department of Classics, (315) 859-4283.
