Ancient World in the Cinema (Revised and Expanded Edition)

Solomon, Jon

ISBN 10: 0300083351 / ISBN 13: 9780300083354

Published by Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2001

About this Item

364 pp. Tightly bound. Lower corners lightly bumped. Text is free of markings. No ownership markings. No dust jacket. Note: This copy is the First Printing of the Revised and Expanded Edition. 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1.

Seller Inventory # 090006

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Ancient World in the Cinema (Revised and Expanded Edition)
• Publisher: Yale University Press, New Haven, CT
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0300083351
• ISBN 13: 9780300083354
• Binding: Hardcover
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket

About this title

Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Jon Solomon is professor of classics at the University of Arizona.