The Department of Classics presents the Winslow Lecture with Paul Allen Miller, who will discuss "Satire is Wholly Roman," on Thursday, March 4 at 4:10 p.m. in the
Science Auditorium.
Miller is professor of classics and comparative literature at the University of South Carolina. He is the author of Lyric Texts and Lyric Consciousness (1994), Latin Erotic Elegy (2002), and, most recently, Subjecting Verses (Princeton, 2004). He has edited several books and special issues of journals and has published numerous articles on Latin, Greek, French, and English literature as well as on literary theory.
Miller is currently working on two books--Latin Verse Satire and Spiritual Practices: The Reception of Plato and the Construction of the Subject in Postmodern France. His lecture will discuss the observation by the second-century rhetorician Quintilian that satire is entirely Roman, arguing that Quintilian means not simply that this particular form of verse was written only by the Romans, but also that there is something peculiarly Roman about the genre itself.
Allen Miller, who received his B.A. from Washington University and his M.A. and Ph.D. from The University of Texas at Austin, is a familiar face at Hamilton, having taught classics here in Spring 1996.
This event is open to the public, free of charge. Refreshments will be served.
For more information, please call or write to Carl A. Rubino (859-4283, crubino@hamilton.edu) in the Department of Classics.
