Background
Leach, Eleanor Winsor was born on August 16, 1937 in Providence. Daughter of Lloyd Moulton and Ruth (Evans) Winsor.
( The Romans were fascinated with landscape--with a love ...)
The Romans were fascinated with landscape--with a love for the organization of space that can be seen as clearly in their pictorial arts as in their arrangement of public and private architecture. In this interdisciplinary work Eleanor Leach links the depiction of landscape in Roman literature and in Roman painting during a formative period of Roman art. In relating the two fields, she focuses on the response of audiences, particularly the way in which perceptions shaped by one of the arts are transferred to the other. The persuasive rhetorical orientation of much Roman art assigns the spectator a vital role. To study that role, Leach brings contemporary semiotic methodology to bear on ancient rhetorical theory. First she contrasts landscapes that fulfill a narrative function, such as those in the Odyssey Frieze and Vergil's Aeneid, with cartographic landscapes used for informational purposes. She then considers the two Augustan genres of sacral-idyllic and architectural landscape. Finally she discusses the reader's contribution to the understanding of mythological narrative painting, and, conversely, the way in which certain Roman authors incorporate visual imagery into their mythological allusions and narratives to control the reader's point of view.
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Leach, Eleanor Winsor was born on August 16, 1937 in Providence. Daughter of Lloyd Moulton and Ruth (Evans) Winsor.
AB, Bryn Mawr College, 1959; Master of Arts, Yale University, 1960; Doctor of Philosophy, Yale University, 1963.
From instructor to assistant professor, Bryn Mawr (Pennsylvania) College, 1962-1966;
from assistant to associate professor, Villanova (Pennsylvania) U., 1966-1971;
visiting associate professor, University Texas, Austin, 1972-1973;
visiting associate professor, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, 1974-1976;
from associate professor to professor, Indiana U., Bloomington, since 1976;
chairman classical studies, Indiana U., Bloomington, 1978-1985;
director graduate studies, Indiana U., Bloomington, since 1997. Visiting professor Barnard College, Columbia University, 1981-1982, U. Maryland., 1990. Resident scholar in classical studies American Academy in Rome, 1983-1984.
Director National Endowment for Humanities summer seminar for college teachers, 1986, 89. Blegen distinguished visiting professor Vassar College, 1987-1988. Visiting fellow Wolfson College, University of Oxford, 1996.
( The Romans were fascinated with landscape--with a love ...)
Member American Philog. Association (board directors 1981-1984, vice president for program 1991-1994), Virgilian Society of America (vice president, president 1991-1993), Classical Association Midwest and South (executive committee 1984-1988), Archeological Institute American (president Center Indiana Society 1986-1988), Society for Promotion of Roman Studies, Federation International des Associations Etudes Classiques (representative to delegate assembly since 1997).
Married Peter John Leach, November 15, 1962 (divorced 1979). 1 child, Harriet Olney.
