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The New Peplum

Essays on Sword and Sandal Films and Television Programs Since the 1990s

Peplum or “sword-and-sandal” films—an Italian genre of the late 1950s through the 1960s—featured ancient Greek, Roman and Biblical stories with gladiators, mythological monsters and legendary quests. The new wave of historic epics is distinctly different, embracing new technologies and storytelling techniques to create an immersive experience unattainable in the earlier films.

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The Trojan War

Literature and Legends from the Bronze Age to the Present, 2d ed.

The Trojan War occurred more than 3,000 years ago. Since then people have been writing, painting, sculpting and creating music about this event and its participants. This book starts with an overview of the Bronze Age and then follows a selection of the major literature about this war from Homer down through the ages and on to the Internet.

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