Martin M. (Hrsg.) Winkler

The Fall of the Roman Empire

Film and History

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For over a century, epic cinema has significantly shaped popular interest in Roman history and culture. The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964), the last of the silver-screen epics about ancient Rome before Gladiator, stands out as the only epic that attempted, and largely succeeded, to show the greatness of Roman civilization rather than to condemn it for luxury, debauchery, religious persecution, and imperialism. The essays collected in this book present the first comprehensive appreciation of The Fall of the Roman Empire from historical, historiographical, and cinematic perspectives. The book also provides the principal classical sources on t… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-118-58981-6
EAN: 9781118589816
Produktnummer: 16382573
Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
Seitenangabe: 288 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 5'306 KB
Auflage: 2. Aufl.

Über den Autor

Martin M. Winkler is Professor of Classics at George Mason University. He is the editor of Gladiator (Blackwell, 2004), Spartacus (Blackwell, 2007) and Troy (Blackwell, 2006) and the author of The Roman Salute (2009) and Cinema and Classical Texts (2009). He has also published numerous articles on Roman literature and filmic retellings of classical and medieval history and myth.