Martin M. Winkler is Distinguished University Professor and Professor of Classics at George Mason University in Virginia. He has written extensively on Roman literature, the classical tradition, and antiquity in the cinema. He has published well over a hundred articles, book chapters and reviews and written or edited sixteen books. The most recent, all published by Cambridge, are Classical Antiquity and the Cinematic Imagination (2024), Ovid on Screen: A Montage of Attractions (2020), and Classical Literature on Screen: Affinities of Imagination (2017).

• Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Dedication; Prolegomena; 1. Cinema and classical antiquity according to Eisenstein; 2. Laocoon: from Lessing to Eisenstein; 3. Montage as callida iunctura; 4. Eisenstein's lion: cultural and cinematic contexts; 5. Word power before absolute power; 6. Acropolis and Parthenon: architecture, Eisenstein, cinema; Epilegomena; Bibliography: 1. Works by Eisenstein; 2. General; Chapter Index.

Martin M. Winkler is Distinguished University Professor and Professor of Classics at George Mason University in Virginia. He has written extensively on Roman literature, the classical tradition, and antiquity in the cinema. He has published well over a hundred articles, book chapters and reviews and written or edited sixteen books. The most recent, all published by Cambridge, are Classical Antiquity and the Cinematic Imagination (2024), Ovid on Screen: A Montage of Attractions (2020), and Classical Literature on Screen: Affinities of Imagination (2017).

• Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Dedication; Prolegomena; 1. Cinema and classical antiquity according to Eisenstein; 2. Laocoon: from Lessing to Eisenstein; 3. Montage as callida iunctura; 4. Eisenstein's lion: cultural and cinematic contexts; 5. Word power before absolute power; 6. Acropolis and Parthenon: architecture, Eisenstein, cinema; Epilegomena; Bibliography: 1. Works by Eisenstein; 2. General; Chapter Index.

Martin M. Winkler is Distinguished University Professor and Professor of Classics at George Mason University in Virginia. He has written extensively on Roman literature, the classical tradition, and antiquity in the cinema. He has published well over a hundred articles, book chapters and reviews and written or edited sixteen books. The most recent, all published by Cambridge, are Classical Antiquity and the Cinematic Imagination (2024), Ovid on Screen: A Montage of Attractions (2020), and Classical Literature on Screen: Affinities of Imagination (2017).

• Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Dedication; Prolegomena; 1. Cinema and classical antiquity according to Eisenstein; 2. Laocoon: from Lessing to Eisenstein; 3. Montage as callida iunctura; 4. Eisenstein's lion: cultural and cinematic contexts; 5. Word power before absolute power; 6. Acropolis and Parthenon: architecture, Eisenstein, cinema; Epilegomena; Bibliography: 1. Works by Eisenstein; 2. General; Chapter Index.