A companion to Ancient Greece and Rome on screen /

Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction / Arthur J Pomeroy -- THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE DEPICTION OF ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME ON SCREEN. Greece and Rome on Screen / Pantelis Michelakis -- The Creation of the Epic / Irmbert Schenk -- From 1916 to the Arrival of Sound / Maria Wyke -- The Resurgence of Epics in the 1950s / Konstantinos P Nikoloutsos -- Hollywood Ascendant / Fiona Radford -- The Peplum Era / Arthur J Pomeroy -- COMEDY, DRAMA, AND ADAPTATION. Hollywood Meets Art-House Cinema / Anastasia Bakogianni -- Greek Tragedy as Theater in Screen-Media / Meredith E Safran -- Greece and Rome on the Comic Screen / Lisa Maurice -- The Return of a Genre / Jerry Benjamin Pierce -- Franco Rossi's Adaptations of the Classics / Arthur J Pomeroy -- I, Claudius and Ancient Rome as Televised Period Drama / Juliette Harrisson -- Premium Cable Television / Monica S Cyrino -- Thinking through the Ancient World / Filippo Carlà-Uhink -- Non-western Approaches to the Ancient World / Anja Wieber -- FILM PRODUCTION AND ANCIENT WORLD CINEMA. Man to Man / Stephan Prock -- Visual Poetry on Screen / Alejandro Valverde García -- Filming the Ancient World / Harriet Margolis -- THE ANCIENT WORLD AS AN IDEA. High Art and Low Art Expectations / Alastair J L Blanshard -- "Soft" Science Fiction and Technical Fantasy / Otta Wenskus -- The Ancient World is Part of Us / Anastasia Bakogianni -- Ancient World Documentaries / Fiona Hobden -- Mythology for the Young at Heart / Martin Lindner