Martin Winkler, professor of classics at George Mason University, will give the Winslow Lecture at Hamilton College on Wednesday, Nov. 28, at 4:10 p.m. in the Kirner-Johnson auditorium. The lecture, accompanied by film clips, will examine the influence of Gibbons' classic book Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire on the 1964 Hollywood epic it inspired. This event is free and open to the public.
The lecture is funded by the Winslow Lecture Fund, which was established through a bequest from William Copley Winslow, Class of 1862, to support lectures on classical archaeology.
Winkler's books include The Persona in Three Satires of Juvenal, Der lateinische Eulenspiegel des Ioannes Nemius and the anthology Juvenal in English. His latest book, The Roman Salute: Cinema, History, Ideology, is due to appear in 2008. Winkler also edited the essay collections Classical Myth and Culture in the Cinema, Gladiator: Film and History, Troy: From Homer's Iliad to Hollywood Epic and Spartacus: Film and History. He has published numerous articles, book chapters and reviews on Roman literature, on the classical tradition and on classical and medieval culture and mythology in film.
For the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., Winkler organized and presented three film programs: "Greek Tragedy from Stage to Screen" (1992), "Hollywood's Rome" (1996), and "Antiquity, Myth, and Cinema" (2002, on ancient Egypt). He frequently lectures and teaches courses on classical literature and film.
For more information, please contact Carl Rubino, 315-859-4283, e-mail: crubino@hamilton.edu, in the Department of Classics.
The lecture is funded by the Winslow Lecture Fund, which was established through a bequest from William Copley Winslow, Class of 1862, to support lectures on classical archaeology.
Winkler's books include The Persona in Three Satires of Juvenal, Der lateinische Eulenspiegel des Ioannes Nemius and the anthology Juvenal in English. His latest book, The Roman Salute: Cinema, History, Ideology, is due to appear in 2008. Winkler also edited the essay collections Classical Myth and Culture in the Cinema, Gladiator: Film and History, Troy: From Homer's Iliad to Hollywood Epic and Spartacus: Film and History. He has published numerous articles, book chapters and reviews on Roman literature, on the classical tradition and on classical and medieval culture and mythology in film.
For the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., Winkler organized and presented three film programs: "Greek Tragedy from Stage to Screen" (1992), "Hollywood's Rome" (1996), and "Antiquity, Myth, and Cinema" (2002, on ancient Egypt). He frequently lectures and teaches courses on classical literature and film.
For more information, please contact Carl Rubino, 315-859-4283, e-mail: crubino@hamilton.edu, in the Department of Classics.
