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{en} Jon Solomon. The Ancient World in the Cinema, 2nd ed. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2001).

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  1st ed. (1978)

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  2nd ed. (2001)

Abstract

"This entertaining and useful book provides a comprehensive survey of films about the ancient world, from The Last Days of Pompeii to Gladiator. Jon Solomon catalogues, describes, and evaluates films set in ancient Greece and Rome, films about Greek and Roman history and mythology, films of the Old and New Testaments, films set in ancient Egypt, Babylon, and Persia, films of ancient tragedies, comic films set in the ancient world, and more. The book has been updated to include feature films and made- for-television movies produced in the past two decades. More than two hundred photographs illustrate both the films themselves and the ancient sources from which their imagery derives."--Publisher description.

Contents

One Mnemosyne: A Survey of the Genre i -- Two Clio: Greek and Roman History 37 -- Three Calliope: GreekandRoman Mythology loi -- Four Polyhymnia: The Old Testament 133 -- Five E rato: The NewTestament and Tales of the Christ 177 -- Six Euterpe: Babylon, Egypt, Persia, and the Ancient Orient 225 -- Seven Melpomene: AncientTragedyand TheSatyricon 259 -- Eight Thalia: AncientComedyand SatirizedAncients 283 -- Nine Terpsichore:The Musceman Epics 307 -- piloglue 325 -- Appendix 1. Chronology of Greco-Roman History in Film 327 -- Appendix 2. Films ofthe Old Testament 330 -- Notes 333 -- Selected Bibliography 335.