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Alastair Blanshard is Senior Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Sydney, Australia. He is the author of Sex, Vice, and Love from Antiquity to Modernity (2010) and Hercules: A Heroic Life (2005).Kim Shahabudin gives guest lectures in the Department of Classics, University of Reading, UK, on classical reception in popular culture. She is the co-editor of Classics for All: Reworking Antiquity in Mass Culture (2009).

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Introduction List of Figures Chapter 1 Establishing the conventions: Cleopatra (1934) Chapter 2 The Roman Epics of Classical Hollywood: Quo Vadis (1951) Chapter 3 Peplum Traditions: Hercules (1958) Chapter 4 Roman History on Screen: Spartacus (1960) Chapter 5 Greek History on Screen: The 300 Spartans (1962) Chapter 6 Myth and the Fantasy: Jason and the Argonauts (1963) Chapter 7 Art Cinema: Fellini-Satyricon (1969) Chapter 8 Satirizing Cine-antiquity: Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979) Chapter 9 The Disney Version: Hercules (1997) Chapter 10 The Return of the Epic?: Gladiator (2000) Notes Bibliography

Classics on Screen Ancient Greece and Rome on Film

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      Publisher Bristol Classical Press
      Published 1/15/2011 12:12:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9780715637241
      978-0715637241
      ISBN-10 071563724X
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      Book Synopsis
      Alastair Blanshard is Senior Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Sydney, Australia. He is the author of Sex, Vice, and Love from Antiquity to Modernity (2010) and Hercules: A Heroic Life (2005).Kim Shahabudin gives guest lectures in the Department of Classics, University of Reading, UK, on classical reception in popular culture. She is the co-editor of Classics for All: Reworking Antiquity in Mass Culture (2009).

      Table of Contents
      Introduction List of Figures Chapter 1 Establishing the conventions: Cleopatra (1934) Chapter 2 The Roman Epics of Classical Hollywood: Quo Vadis (1951) Chapter 3 Peplum Traditions: Hercules (1958) Chapter 4 Roman History on Screen: Spartacus (1960) Chapter 5 Greek History on Screen: The 300 Spartans (1962) Chapter 6 Myth and the Fantasy: Jason and the Argonauts (1963) Chapter 7 Art Cinema: Fellini-Satyricon (1969) Chapter 8 Satirizing Cine-antiquity: Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979) Chapter 9 The Disney Version: Hercules (1997) Chapter 10 The Return of the Epic?: Gladiator (2000) Notes Bibliography

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