McClanahan Lecture Series

Death and Transfiguration:
The Tomb of Bibulus and the Remaking of Rome
Dr. Tyler Lansford, Â鶹ӰԺ

Monday, October 25th, 2021  |  7:00 p.m.  |  Virtual Webinar

Towards the end of the Roman Republic, a minor magistrate called Gaius Publicius Bibulus was accorded the honor of public burial at the southern end of the Campus Martius. Despite the small size and relative fragility of his tomb, its inscribed facade has remained in situ and visible for more than two millennia – a persistent if unlikely witness to the tremendous cycles of collapse and recovery, death and renewal that have transformed central Rome beyond recognition down the centuries.

This lecture is free and will be hosted on Zoom.
This lecture is sponsored by Mary E.V. McClanahan.  CU Classics is grateful for her generous support.

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The Department of Classics congratulates Tyler Lansford on his promotion to Senior Instructor!

Tyler Lansford (Ph.D. Washington 1991) is primarily interested in the historical topography of the city of Rome from antiquity to the present. His first book, The Latin Inscriptions of Rome: A Walking Guide (Johns Hopkins 2009) features some 400 inscriptions representing the whole of Rome’s history – ancient, medieval, and modern. Lansford is currently working on an illustrated book on the development of the city of Rome from its beginnings to the end of antiquity. His teaching interests include the city of Rome, Roman history and Latin literature.

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Wednesday, November 29
7:00 PM in HUMN 150
presented by Tyler Lansford

Classical Rhetoric in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar

Among Shakespeare’s ‘Roman’ plays, Julius Caesar is arguably the most Roman in both substance and form: not only is the title character Rome’s premier imperialist – the very language breathes a uniquely authentic Roman atmosphere. A characteristic aspect of this Romanitas or ‘Roman-ness’ is the central importance of public eloquence: in true Roman fashion, it is persuasive speech that carries the day (‘Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears!’). This talk explores the manner in which the ars rhetorica of Aristotle, Cicero and Quintilian pervades and animates Shakespeare’s searching meditation on the justice of tyrannicide.

Tyler Lansford (Ph.D., University of Washington) is an instructor in the Department of Classics. Rhetorical demonstrations will be provided by Andy Walker, who played Decius Brutus/Pindarus in the Colorado Shakespeare Festival’s 2017 production of Julius Caesar.

Sponsored by Mary E.V. McClanahan and the Department of Classics. Parking available just north of the Eaton Humanities at 1610 Pleasant St.

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CU Classics professor, Tyler Lansford, is transforming the death of Julius Caesar into new life for Roman rhetoric.

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