The ancient world in the cinema

Description:

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.

subjects: Historical films,  Civilization, Ancient, in motion pictures,  History and criticism,  Motion pictures, history,  Civilization, ancient,  Motion pictures, miscellanea,  Epic films,  Films historiques,  Histoire et critique,  Civilisation ancienne au cinéma,  Cinéma et histoire,  Antike,  Film,  Historischer Film,  Rezeption