Description
This volume brings together a wide range of scholarly perspectives on the television series Troy: Fall of a City (2018).
About the Author
Antony Augoustakis is Professor of Classics at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA. He is the author of Motherhood and the Other: Fashioning Female Power in Flavian Epic (2010) and Statius, Thebaid 8 (2016). He is the editor of the Brill Companion to Silius Italicus (2010), Ritual and Religion in Flavian Epic (2013), Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014), Oxford Readings in Flavian Epic (2016), and co-editor of the Blackwell Companion to Terence (with Ariana Traill, 2013), STARZ Spartacus: Reimagining an Icon on Screen (with Monica S. Cyrino, 2017), and Epic Heroes on Screen (with Stacie Raucci, 2018). Monica S. Cyrino is Professor of Classics at the University of New Mexico, USA. She is the author of Aphrodite (2010), A Journey through Greek Mythology (2008), Big Screen Rome (2005), and In Pandora's Jar: Lovesickness in Early Greek Poetry (1995). She is the editor of Rome, Season Two: Trial and Triumph (2015), Screening Love and Sex in the Ancient World (2013), Rome, Season One: History Makes Television (2008), and co-editor of Classical Myth on Screen (with Meredith E. Safran, 2015), and STARZ Spartacus: Reimagining an Icon on Screen (with Antony Augoustakis, 2017).
Reviews
Screening Love and War in Troy: Fall of a City helps orient viewers to the series' many points of reference in ancient Greek and Roman mythology, literature, and art, including the lost Epic Cycle, traditions of tragic drama, and Virgil's Aeneid alongside the foundational Homeric Iliad. The chapters offer a range of approaches to topics in the story, in the series as an example of television and cinema, and in how both have been received by audiences. This volume is a thought-provoking study of Troy: Fall of a City and is likely to be of interest to fans as well as other students of classical receptions on screen. -- Benjamin Eldon Stevens, Visiting Assistant Professor of Classical Studies, Trinity University, USA
To conclude, on a personal level, I willingly admit that this well-rounded volume helped me better understand and appreciate the series. * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *
Book Information
ISBN 9781350257009
Author Dr Antony Augoustakis
Format Paperback
Page Count 280
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Weight(grams) 428g