Renger Almut-Barbara, Solomon Jon. Ancient Worlds in Film and Television: Gender and Politics

Leiden, Brill. 2013. — 341 p. — ISBN 978-90-04-24192-3The anthology you hold in your hands is the first volume of Metaforms: Studies in the Reception of Classical Antiquity. The series aims to publish monographs and collected volumes devoted to the critical investigation of a broad and diverse field: the reception of Greco-Roman antiquity. It is particularly committed to research that considers the practices, premises, and constituting effects of creative work that deals directly with past traditions in a variety of media and discourses including, but not limited to, literature, film, and the visual arts.