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Brill’s Companion to Ancient Greek and Roman Warfare on Film is the first volume exclusively dedicated to the study of a theme that informs virtually every reimagining of the classical world on the big screen: armed conflict. Through a vast array of case studies, from the silent era to recent years, the collection traces cinema’s enduring fascination with battles and violence in antiquity and explores the reasons, both synchronic and diachronic, for the central place that war occupies in celluloid Greece and Rome. Situating films in their artistic, economic, and sociopolitical context, the essays cast light on the industrial mechanisms through which the ancient battlefield is refashioned in cinema and investigate why the medium adopts a revisionist approach to textual and visual sources.
Price: $221.00
Pages: 588
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Brill's Companions to Classical Studies
Publication Date:
20 December 2023
ISBN: 9789004686816
Format: Hardcover
"The introduction by the volume’s editor Konstantinos Nikoloutsos, and the epilogue by the series editor Lee Brice, provide those new to the topic with a convincing justification of the need for the specialized volume, an excellent overview of origins, developments and trends, and tantalizing suggestions for further research (...) Brill’s Companion to Ancient Greek and Roman Warfare on Screen thus offers a well informed and rewarding read for students and scholars, providing them with a companion in their effort to grasp the specificity of the topic, or to delve into the various aspects that bind alleged historicity with modernity. The volume is well produced with only few infelicities. It will find wide readership and is recommended for any reader willing or striving to adopt a more critical stance vis-à-vis the increasing self-evidence and psychological effect of sensationalized ‘epic’ violence justified with reference to antiquity."
Ronald Blankenborg in BMCR 25.03.11
"(...) el punto fuerte de este trabajo consiste en la calidad de las monografías que lo integran, que concluyen todas con un apartado de conclusiones, bibliografía y filmografía de gran utilidad. De igual forma, es importante destacar la relevancia de la documentación fotográfica presentada, así como del epílogo del propio Brice (pp. 559-580) en el que subraya la multitud de intersecciones que se dan entre los diferentes capítulos, al tiempo que abre las puertas a futuros posibles estudios. (...) A lo largo de este libro nos encontraremosun acercamientocaleidoscópico a películas de distintas nacionalidades que van desde el cine mudo hasta el año 2019."
Alejandro Valverde García in Filmhistoria 34.1-2 (2024)
Ronald Blankenborg in BMCR 25.03.11
"(...) el punto fuerte de este trabajo consiste en la calidad de las monografías que lo integran, que concluyen todas con un apartado de conclusiones, bibliografía y filmografía de gran utilidad. De igual forma, es importante destacar la relevancia de la documentación fotográfica presentada, así como del epílogo del propio Brice (pp. 559-580) en el que subraya la multitud de intersecciones que se dan entre los diferentes capítulos, al tiempo que abre las puertas a futuros posibles estudios. (...) A lo largo de este libro nos encontraremosun acercamientocaleidoscópico a películas de distintas nacionalidades que van desde el cine mudo hasta el año 2019."
Alejandro Valverde García in Filmhistoria 34.1-2 (2024)
Konstantinos P. Nikoloutsos is Professor in the Department of History at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia (USA). He has published widely on Roman sexuality, celluloid antiquity, and classical reception. He is the editor of Ancient Greek Women in Film (Oxford University Press, 2013) and co-editor of Greeks and Romans on the Latin American Stage (Bloomsbury, 2020).
Contributors are: Oskar Aguado-Cantabrana, Jeremy Armstrong, Djoymi Baker, Anastasia Bakogianni, Irene Berti, Lee L. Brice, Hannah-Marie Chidwick, Kaiti Diamantakou, Seán Easton, Renata Senna Garraffoni, Elias Koulakiotis, Óscar Luis Lapeña Marchena, Konstantinos P. Nikoloutsos, Arthur J. Pomeroy, Owen Rees, Robert A. Rushing, Patricia Salzman-Mitchell, Jonathan Stubbs, Michael Williams, Jorit Wintjes.
Contributors are: Oskar Aguado-Cantabrana, Jeremy Armstrong, Djoymi Baker, Anastasia Bakogianni, Irene Berti, Lee L. Brice, Hannah-Marie Chidwick, Kaiti Diamantakou, Seán Easton, Renata Senna Garraffoni, Elias Koulakiotis, Óscar Luis Lapeña Marchena, Konstantinos P. Nikoloutsos, Arthur J. Pomeroy, Owen Rees, Robert A. Rushing, Patricia Salzman-Mitchell, Jonathan Stubbs, Michael Williams, Jorit Wintjes.