The Ancient World in the Cinema: Revised and Expanded Edition

by Jon Solomon

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.

Genres: Film, Nonfiction, History

384 pages, Paperback

First published February 8, 2001

About the author

Jon Solomon is Robert D. Novak Professor of Western Civilization and Culture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.

Reviews

[Kara · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book was written by my Classics professor. He's kind of all over the place in terms of thought (like in his classes), but he has a lot of interesting things to say about how greek myths are portrayed (for better or worse) in the movies and on t.v.