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{en} Arthur J. Pomeroy. '''''Then it Was Destroyed by the Volcano: The Ancient World in Film and on Television''''' (London: Duckworth, 2008).  
{en} Jon Solomon. '''''The Ancient World in the Cinema''''', 2nd ed. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2001).
 
 
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== Abstract ==
== Abstract ==


"Depictions of the ancient world on the stage and in art have always competed with the reconstruction of the past by academics. The rise of cinema and television has heightened the difficulty in distinguishing between 'elite' and 'popular' culture. On American TV, Buffy the Vampire Slayer has incorporated aspects of the classical within the high school horror genre. In art cinema, the films of Theo Angelopoulos seek to reclaim Greek myth from academia and claim its recognition as part of living modern culture. Alexander the Great has been recreated in an animated Japanese television series, not as the western conqueror who spread Hellenistic values through Asia, but as a figure of destruction and renewal. Heroic male values may be reasserted in cinema as part of a conservative agenda that relies on the cultural capital of the past, or subjected to humorous critique or feminist reinterpretation in TV series such as Hercules: the Legendary Journeys and Xena, Warrior Princess." "'Then it was Destroyed by the Volcano,' by studying the multiple depictions of the ancient world on screen, emphasises its continuing importance for the re-evaluation of the present."-
"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 ==
== Contents ==


The actress and the playwright -- Hymns to the ancient world in (the) Buffyverse -- The peplum and other animals -- The Odyssey, high and low -- Alexander the hero -- "It's a man's, man's, man's world" except for Xena and Buffy.
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.




Latest revision as of 11:10, 13 November 2023

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


  • 1st ed. (1978)

  • 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.

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