Audio and visual Romans: Julius Caesar on screen

This cross-disciplinary collaboration brings together academics and students from literature, classics, film studies, history, intercultural studies and translation studies for a practical exercise in audio-description.

By investigating the sound and image of ancient Rome in cinema and by exploring the visual and aural embodiment of Julius Caesar in television and social media, the project compares representations of Rome’s past.

It includes a public screening of a silent film with live accompaniment by the pianist and composer Michele Scanga which took place on 7 May 2019.

Area

Arts and humanities

UCL leads

• Maria Wyke, Department of Greek and Latin
• Geraldine Brodie, School of European Languages, Culture and Society (SELCS)
• Valentina Arena, Department of History
• Benet Salway, Department of History

Partner leads

Università di Roma

• Monika Woźniak
• Francesca Berno, Sapienza

Polish Academy of Science at Rome

• Piotr Salwa