Date: Thursday, April 21st
Time: 5:00pm
Location: 104 Van Hise Hall
The Classics Society is pleased to announce that Dr. Monica Cyrino from the University of New Mexico will be giving the 2016 Classics Society Spring Lecture, taking place on Thursday, April 21st 2016. Her talk will be titled:
More on the lecture:
Time: 5:00pm
Location: 104 Van Hise Hall
The Classics Society is pleased to announce that Dr. Monica Cyrino from the University of New Mexico will be giving the 2016 Classics Society Spring Lecture, taking place on Thursday, April 21st 2016. Her talk will be titled:
Screening the Battle of Actium: Civil War, Erotic Tragedy and the Birth of an
Empire
More on the lecture:
Who doesn’t know the famous love story of
Antony & Cleopatra, portrayed so magnificently in the MGM film starring
Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton? To historians, this is much more than a
love story: These lovers teamed up against Antony’s rival, Octavian, the future
Roman emperor Augustus, in the great Battle of Actium fought in 31 BC. In this
presentation Dr. Cyrino, a professor of Classics and a Presidential Teaching
fellow at University of New Mexico, analyzes several themes used by filmmakers
to represent the battle as the momentous “turning point of history” that gave
birth to the Roman Empire.
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| Dr. Monica Cyrino |
Learn more about Dr. Cyrino here: https://fll.unm.edu/about/faculty/profile/monica-cyrino.php
See you on April 21st!
Funding for this lecture is generously provided by the University Lectures Anonymous Fund and the UW-Madison Department of CANES
