Eleanor Winsor Leach
American classical philologist
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- Bachelors Classical Philology Harvard University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Eleanor Winsor Leach was the Ruth N. Halls Professor with the Department of Classical Studies at Indiana University. She was a trustee of the Vergilian Society in 1978–83 and was second and then first vice-president in 1989–92. Leach was the president of the Society of Classical Studies in 2005/6, and the chair of her department . She was very involved with academics and younger scholars – directing 26 dissertations, wrote letters for 200 tenure and promotion cases, and refereed more than 100 books and 200 articles. Leach's research interests included Roman painting, Roman sculpture, and Cicero and Pliny's Letters. She published three books and more than 50 articles. Leach's work had an interdisciplinary focus, reading Latin texts against their social, political, and cultural context. From the 1980s onwards, she combined her work on ancient literature with the study of Roman painting, monuments, and topography.
Eleanor Winsor Leach's Published Works
Published Works
- The Politics of Self-Presentation: Pliny's Letters and Roman Portrait Sculpture (1990) (67)
- Ekphrasis and the Theme of Artistic Failure in Ovid's Metamorphoses (1974) (66)
- Otium as Luxuria : Economy of Status in the Younger Pliny's Letters (2003) (63)
- Absence and Desire in Cicero's "De Amicitia" (1993) (61)
- The Social Life of Painting in Ancient Rome and on the Bay of Naples (2004) (60)
- The Rhetoric of Space: Literary and Artistic Representations of Landscape in Republican and Augustan Rome (1992) (53)
- Vergil's Eclogues; Landscapes of Experience. (1974) (42)
- Horace's Pater Optimus and Terence's Demea: Autobiographical Fiction and Comedy in Sermo, I, 4 (1971) (38)
- Georgic Imagery in the Ars amatoria (1964) (31)
- Ciceronian 'Bi-Marcus': correspondence with M. Terentius Varro and L. Papirius Paetus in 46 B.C.E.: correspondence with M. Terentius Varro and L. Papirius Paetus in 46 B.C.E. (1999) (31)
- Corydon Revisited: An Interpretation of the Political Eclogues of Calpurnius Siculus (1973) (9)
- Horace's Sabine topography in lyric and hexameter verse (1993) (8)
- Horace Carmen 1.8: Achilles, the Campus Martius, and the Articulation of Gender Roles in Augustan Rome (1994) (7)
- Vergil, Horace, Tibullus: Three Collections of Ten (1978) (7)
- Personal and Communal Memory in the Reading of Horace's Odes, Books 1-3 (1998) (6)
- Neronian Pastoral and the World of Power (1975) (6)
- Claudia Quinta (Pro Caelio 34) and an altar to Magna Mater (2007) (6)
- Declamation, Paternity and Roman Identity: Authority and the Rhetorical Self. By Erik Gunderson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. [xii] + 285. Cloth. (2005) (5)
- The Soldier and Society: Plautus'Miles Gloriosus as Popular Drama (1979) (4)
- P. Vergili Maronis Aeneidos Liber Primus. With a Commentary (1972) (4)
- Nature and Art in Vergil's Second Eclogue (1966) (3)
- Patrons, Painters, and Patterns: The Anonymity of Romano-Campanian Painting and the Transition from the Second to the Third Style (1982) (3)
- Pliny’s Epistolary Re-Inscription: Writing the Tombs of Verginius Rufus and Pallas the Claudian Secretary A Rationibus (2014) (3)
- Hypermestra’s Querela: Coopting the Danaids in Horace Ode 3.11 and in Augustan Rome (2008) (3)
- M. Atilius Regulus—Making Defeat into Victory: Diverse Values in an Ambivalent Story (2014) (3)
- Cicero’s Cilician Correspondence: Space and Auctoritas (2016) (2)
- Rome's Elegiac Cartography: The View from the Via Sacra (2012) (2)
- Trinidad and Tobago Administration Report of the Director of Agriculture for the year 1945. (1946) (1)
- Roman Literary Letters (2017) (1)
- Pompeian frescoes in the Metropolitan (1988) (1)
- Parthenian Caverns: Remapping of an Imaginative Topography (1978) (1)
- Review Article: Reading Signs of Status: Recent Books on Roman Art in the Domestic Sphere (1992) (1)
- Administration Report of the Director of Agriculture for the year 1948. (1950) (1)
- Roman Landscape: Culture and Identity by DIANA SPENCER (review) (2021) (0)
- Litora picta...nativis lapillis: mosaic fountains and their contexts (2010) (0)
- Pompeii: The Living City. By Alex Butterworth and Ray Laurence. (New York, N.Y.: St Martin's Press, 2006. Pp.viii, 354. $27.95.) (2008) (0)
- (S.) Treggiari Terentia, Tullia and Publilia. The Women of Cicero's Family . Pp. xxii + 228, ills, maps. London and New York: Routledge, 2007. Paper, £18.99, US$34.95 (Cased, £65, US$110). ISBN: 978-0-415-35179-9 (978-0-415-35178-2 hbk). (2008) (0)
- Pliny's Women: Constructing Virtue and Creating Identity in the Roman World (review) (2011) (0)
- Annual Report of the Banana Board Research Department, Jamaica, 1959. (1960) (0)
- Flavian Pompeii: Restoration and Renewal (2016) (0)
- Hercules in houses around Vesuvius (2003) (0)
- Roman Eyes: Visuality and Subjectivity in Art and Text (review) (2008) (0)
- Color as sign and symbol in Roman thought (2011) (0)
- Review Article: Reconstructing Discourse: Readings of Gender, Identity, and Ideology in Ancient Art (1999) (0)
- David West: Horace, Odes III: Dulce Periculum. Text, Translation and Commentary (2004) (0)
- List of Abbreviations (2006) (0)
- Review Article: Socially Responsible Books on Roman Architecture (2000) (0)
- Bibliography (1940) (0)
- Administration Report of the Director of Agriculture, Trinidad and Tobago, 1950. (1952) (0)
- Paul Rehak, Imperium and Cosmos: Augustus in the Northern Campus Martius, Edited by John G. Younger (Madison, Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2007) XXVIII + 255 pp. & 46 pl. (2009) (0)
- HENDERSON’S PLINY (2004) (0)
- Some recent work on Roman wall-painting (1990) (0)
- Variety yield trial of groundnuts together with a study of the flowering mechanism (2016) (0)
- Arcadia and the Roman imagination* (2021) (0)
- Book Review of Divine Interiors: Mural Paintings in Greek and Roman Sanctuaries, by Eric M. Moormann (2013) (0)
- Ovid's Changing Worlds: English "Metamorphoses," 1567-1632. Raphael Lyne (2003) (0)
- SYLLECTA CLASSICA 24 (2013): 125–144 PLINY’S EPISTOLARY RE-INSCRIPTION: WRITING THE TOMBS OF VERGINIUS RUFUS AND PALLAS THE CLAUDIAN (2014) (0)
- Correspondence with M. Terentius Varro and L. Papirius Paetus in 46 B.C.E. (2016) (0)
- Book Review:Genres and Readers: Lucretius, Love Elegy, Pliny's "Encyclopedia" Gian Biagio Conte, Glenn W. Most (1995) (0)
- Beyond the Vesuvius Barrier : Colors and Continuities in Ancient Roman Painting (2010) (0)
- The Complete Comedies of Terence. Modern Verse Translations (1976) (0)
- Roman Landscape: Culture and Identity. Greece & Rome New Surveys in the Classics, no. 39.by DIANA SPENCER (2012) (0)
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