YORK UNIVERSITY

PROGRAMME IN CLASSICAL STUDIES

PROFESSOR KATHLEEN COLEMAN

(Department of the Classics, Harvard University)

will give a lecture, illustrated with slides, on

“ORCHESTRATING VIOLENCE:

THE ROLE OF MUSIC

IN THE SPECTACLES OF THE ROMAN ARENA”

THURSDAY 31 MARCH 4.30 – 6.00 p.m.

TEL BUILDING: LECTURE ROOM 0016

All welcome!

Professor Coleman has been Professor of Latin at Harvard University since 1998. Previously she taught at the University of Cape Town (1979-1993) and held the chair of Latin at Trinity College, Dublin (1993-1998). She is the author of books on Statius, Silvae Book IV (Oxford University Press, 1988) and on Martial’s Book on Spectacles (Oxford University Press, forthcoming). She has produced a series of ground-breaking articles on Roman spectacle, including papers in the Journal of Roman Studies on Roman executions staged as mythological displays and on aquatic displays in the Roman Empire. She was the academic consultation on the movie Gladiator (2000) and has described her experiences in a recent essay in Martin M. Winkler (ed.), Gladiator, Film and History (Oxford, 2004).