MARTIN M. WINKLER is University Professor and Professor of Classics in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages at George Mason University, Virginia. He has written and edited several books on Roman literature, the classical tradition, and antiquity in the cinema and has published over a hundred articles, book chapters, reviews, and notes. He is an honorary member of the Sociedade Brasileira de Retórica.

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• Part I. Prolegomena Leptomerestera: 1. Fade-in; Part II. Progymnasmata – Ways of Seeing: 2. Douris' Jason: reckless interpretations and the ongoing moment; 3. Classical cinematism; Part III. Complex Cinematism: 4. Motion images in ecphrases; 5. Shadows and caves: the cinema as Platonic idea and reality; 6. Static flight: Zeno's arrow and cinematographic motion; 7. Lucretius: dream images and beyond the infinite; 8. The cinematic nature of the opening scene in Heliodorus' An Ethiopian Story; 9. The face of tragedy: mask and close-up; Part IV. The Cinema Imagines Difficult Texts; 10. Apollonius and the golden fleece; Or, the case of the missing ecphrasis; 11. Arrow and axes in the Odyssey; Or, the case of the insoluble enigma; 12. Peckinpah's Aristotle; Or, how well does The Wild Bunch fit The Poetics? Part V. Epilegomena Syntomôtera: 13. Fade-out.

MARTIN M. WINKLER is University Professor and Professor of Classics in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages at George Mason University, Virginia. He has written and edited several books on Roman literature, the classical tradition, and antiquity in the cinema and has published over a hundred articles, book chapters, reviews, and notes. He is an honorary member of the Sociedade Brasileira de Retórica.

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• Part I. Prolegomena Leptomerestera: 1. Fade-in; Part II. Progymnasmata – Ways of Seeing: 2. Douris' Jason: reckless interpretations and the ongoing moment; 3. Classical cinematism; Part III. Complex Cinematism: 4. Motion images in ecphrases; 5. Shadows and caves: the cinema as Platonic idea and reality; 6. Static flight: Zeno's arrow and cinematographic motion; 7. Lucretius: dream images and beyond the infinite; 8. The cinematic nature of the opening scene in Heliodorus' An Ethiopian Story; 9. The face of tragedy: mask and close-up; Part IV. The Cinema Imagines Difficult Texts; 10. Apollonius and the golden fleece; Or, the case of the missing ecphrasis; 11. Arrow and axes in the Odyssey; Or, the case of the insoluble enigma; 12. Peckinpah's Aristotle; Or, how well does The Wild Bunch fit The Poetics? Part V. Epilegomena Syntomôtera: 13. Fade-out.

MARTIN M. WINKLER is University Professor and Professor of Classics in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages at George Mason University, Virginia. He has written and edited several books on Roman literature, the classical tradition, and antiquity in the cinema and has published over a hundred articles, book chapters, reviews, and notes. He is an honorary member of the Sociedade Brasileira de Retórica.

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• Part I. Prolegomena Leptomerestera: 1. Fade-in; Part II. Progymnasmata – Ways of Seeing: 2. Douris' Jason: reckless interpretations and the ongoing moment; 3. Classical cinematism; Part III. Complex Cinematism: 4. Motion images in ecphrases; 5. Shadows and caves: the cinema as Platonic idea and reality; 6. Static flight: Zeno's arrow and cinematographic motion; 7. Lucretius: dream images and beyond the infinite; 8. The cinematic nature of the opening scene in Heliodorus' An Ethiopian Story; 9. The face of tragedy: mask and close-up; Part IV. The Cinema Imagines Difficult Texts; 10. Apollonius and the golden fleece; Or, the case of the missing ecphrasis; 11. Arrow and axes in the Odyssey; Or, the case of the insoluble enigma; 12. Peckinpah's Aristotle; Or, how well does The Wild Bunch fit The Poetics? Part V. Epilegomena Syntomôtera: 13. Fade-out.