The Ancient World in the Cinema (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780300083378)

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.


Author: Jon Solomon
ISBN-10: 0300083378
ISBN-13: 9780300083378
Publisher: Yale University Press
Language: English
Published: 02/08/2001
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.77lbs
Size: 9.99h x 7.01w x 0.97d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 04/15/2001 pg. 96