Berti (ancient history, U. of Heidelberg, Germany) and Morcillo (ancient history, U. of Dresden, Germany) collect 13 papers exploring representations of ancient Greece in film, from the
mythological world and Homer's epics to the classical, Hellenistic, and Roman eras. The papers address a range of topics, including the iconography and artistic design of characteristic
Hollywood and European productions, how mythological and Homeric narratives are adapted for cartoon films for children, the similarities of the iconographic status of Heracles (Hercules) in
satyr-plays and in Italian film of the fifties and sixties, diverse cinematic representations of Odyssesus, the use of drama and photography aesthetics in the 1912 film The Legend of Oedipus,
the value orientations of different productions of the story of Damon and Pythias in literature and film, the critical subtext in Alexander the Great (1956) concerning Western Cold War
politics, parallels between the biographical approaches of Plutarch's Life of Alexander and Oliver Stone's Alexander (2004), and comparison of Hollywood and European constructions of Roman
Greece. Distributed in North America by The David Brown Book Co. Annotation 穢2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
