Description: A cohesive, interdisciplinary study of the imaginative power screen media has to reshape our perception of Roman women, covering over 100 years with examples from silent cinema through to computer games.
Brief description: Filippo Carlà-Uhink is Professor of Ancient History at Potsdam University, Germany. His main research areas are the social and economical history of Late Antiquity, the history of the Roman Republic, the cultural history of ancient Rome, with a particular attention for space concepts and the construction of space, and the reception of antiquity in modern media. He is co-editor of Bloomsbury Academic's series IMAGINES - Classical Receptions in the Visual and Performing Arts, and editor of Caesar, Attila & Co. Comics und die Antike (2014) and, with Irene Berti, Ancient Magic and the Supernatural in the Modern Visual and Performing Arts (Bloomsbury Academic, 2015).
Review Quotes: "This is reception history at its finest. The book takes the reader on a voyage through film history and different genres from the days of silent movies to modern TV shows, through literature from 19th century novels to modern fan fiction. Deciphering the cross-media entanglement of Roman women in these sources offers revealing insights into how these women were and are stereotyped, but also empowered." --Anja Wieber, Independent Scholar, Germany