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Gladiator. Antiken i populärkulturen

Gladiator. Antiquity in Popular Culture

Kurs
AN1060
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Hösttermin 2025 (2025-09-01)
Beslutsdatum
2025-07-07

Huvudböcker
Cyrino, M. Silveira, Big Screen Rome, Oxford 2005.
Davies, C., Blockbusters and the Ancient World. Allegory and Warfare in Contemporary
Hollywood, London 2019.
Svärd, sandaler och skandaler. Antiken på film och i TV, red. I. Hammar och U. Zander, Lund
2015.
Wyke, M. Projecting the Past. Ancient Rome, Cinema and History, New York & London 1997.
Artiklar och kapitel (obligatoriska)
Allen, A., “Briseis in Homer, Ovid, and Troy”, i M. M. Winkler (ed.), Troy. From Homer’s Iliad
to Hollywood Epic, Oxford 2007, 148–62.*
DuBois, P., “I am Spartacus: Ancient War and Slavery in the Movies”, i Victor Caston & Silke-
Maria Weineck (eds.), Our Ancient Wars. Rethinking War through the Classics, Ann Arbor
2016, 259–274.*
Futrell, A., “Seeing Red. Spartacus as Domestic Economist”, Imperial Projections. Ancient
Rome in Modern Popular Culture, eds. S. R. Joshel, M. Malamud & D. T. McGuire, Jr.,
Baltimore & London 2001, 77–118.*
Futrell, A., “Not some cheap murder”: Caesar’s assassination”, i M. S. Cyrano (ed.), Rome
Season One: History makes Television, Malden 2008, 100–115.*
Joshel, S., “I, Claudius: Projection and Imperial Soap Opera, i Imperial Projections. Ancient
Rome in Modern Popular Culture, eds. S. R. Joshel, M. Malamud & D. T. McGuire, Jr.,
Baltimore & London 2001, 119–61.*
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Lauwers, J., Dhont, M. & Huybrecht, X., “This is Sparta! Discourse, Gender, and the Orient in
Zack Snyder’s 300, Ancient Worlds in Film and Television. Gender and Politics, eds. A.-B.
Renger & J. Solomon, Leiden 2013, 79–94.*
Sills, A., “The tropification of Hollywood heroes thrown into the arena”, Melita Classica 9,
2023, 112–37.*
Weinlich, B. P., “A new Briseis in Troy”, i Martin M. Winkler (red.), Return to Troy: New
Essays on the Hollywood Epic, Leiden 2015, 191–202.*
Ytterligare artiklar / kapitel tillkommer*
Utdrag ur antika texter: Homeros Iliaden, Herodotos Historia, Tacitus Annaler*
Tips på ytterligare läsning
Ancient Worlds in Film and Television. Gender and Politics, eds. A.-B. Renger & J. Solomon,
Leiden 2013.
Barker, P., The silence of the girls, 2018.
A Companion to Greece and Rome on Screen, ed. A. J. Pomeroy, Oxford 2017.
Daugherty, G. N. The Reception of Cleopatra in the Age of Mass Media, London 2023.
Gladiator. Film and History, ed. M. M. Winkler, Malden, MA, 2004.
Robert Graves, I, Claudius (1934) och Claudius, the God (1935).
Imperial Projections. Ancient Rome in Modern Popular Culture, eds. S. R. Joshel, M. Malamud
& D. T. McGuire, Jr., Baltimore & London 2001.
Nisbet, G., Ancient Greece in Film and Popular Culture, Bristol 2008.
Return to Troy: New Essays on the Hollywood Epic, Martin M. Winkler (ed.), Leiden 2015.
Rome, Season One. History makes Television, ed. M. S. Cyrino, Malden, MA, 2008.
Rome, Season Two. Trial and Triumph, ed. M. S. Cyrino, Edinburgh 2015.
Solomon, J., Ben-Hur: The Original Blockbuster, Edinburgh 2016.
Scodel, R. & Bettenworth, A., Whither Quo Vadis?, Malden 2009.
Spartacus: film and history, ed. M. M. Winkler, Malden, MA, 2007.
Troy. From Homer’s Iliad to Hollywood Epic, ed. M. M. Winkler, Malden, MA, 2007.
Winkler, M. M., Classical Literature on Screen. Affinities of Imagination, Cambridge 2017.
Filmer och TV-serier (obligatoriska)
Quo vadis (1951)
Ben-Hur (1959)
Spartacus (1960)
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Cleopatra (1963)
Jag, Claudius, BBC (1976)
Gladiator (2000)
Troy (2004)
Alexander (2004)
Rome, HBO (2006 & 2007)
300 (2007)
Gladiator II (2024)
Tips på fler filmer och TV-serier
Julius Caesar (1953)
The 300 Spartans (1962)
The fall of the Roman Empire (1964)
Caligula (1979, 2023)
Centurion (2010)
The Eagle (2011)
Pompeii (2014)
Wonder Woman (2017)
Troy: Fall of a City (2018)
Romulus (2020)
Domina (2021–23)
Barbarians (2020–22)
Percy Jackson (2023-
Kaos (2024)
The Return (2024)
Those about to die (2024)
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