THE ANCIENT WORLD IN FILM

Topics

• Primary Source: Selections from Plutarch, Life of Theseus; Pliny the Younger, Letters on Mount Vesuvius
• Primary Source: Selections from Homer, Iliad and Ovid, Metamorphoses
• Secondary Source: Martin Winkler, "The Iliad and the Cinema"
• Primary Source: Selections from Homer, Odyssey
• Secondary Source: Sean Chadwell, "Inventing that "Old-Timey" Style: Southern Authenticity in O Brother, Where Art Thou? "
• Primary Source: Selections from Apollonius, Argonautica
• Secondary Source: Alastair Blanshard & Kim Shahabudin, “Myth and the Fantastic: Jason and the Argonauts (1963)"
• Primary Source: Aristophanes, Lysistrata
• Secondary Source: Emily Jusino, "Riffing on Lysistrata : Gender and Social Critique in Spike Lee's Chi-Raq "
• Primary Source: Selections from Herodotus, Histories ; Selections from Xenophon, Constitution of the Lakedaimonians
• Recommended: Interview with Frank Miller
• Primary Source: Plutarch, Life of Alexander