Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
List of Figures
Introduction
Konstantinos P. Nikoloutsos
I. Helen
1: Bella Vivante: Gazing at Helen: Helen as Polysemous Icon in Robert Wise's Helen of Troy and Michael Cacoyannis' The Trojan Women
2: Ruby Blondell: 'Third Cheerleader from the Left': From Homer's Helen to Helen of Troy
II. Medea
3: Kirk Ormand: Medea's Erotic Text in Jason and the Argonauts (1963)
4: Susan O. Shapiro: Pasolini's Medea: A Twentieth Century Tragedy
5: Annette M. Baertschi: Rebel and Martyr: The Medea of Lars von Trier
III. Penelope
6: Joanna Paul: 'Madonna and Whore': The Many Faces of Penelope in Camerini's Ulisse (1954)
7: Edith Hall: Why is Penelope Still Waiting? The Missing Feminist Reappraisal of the Odyssey in Cinema: 1963-2007
IV. Other Mythical Women
8: Arthur J. Pomeroy: The Women of Ercole
9: Anastasia Bakogianni: Annihilating Clytemnestra: The Severing of the Mother-Daughter Bond in Michael Cacoyannis' Iphigenia (1977)
10: Hallie Rebecca Marshall: Mythic Women in Tony Harrison's Prometheus
V. Historical Women
11: Konstantinos P. Nikoloutsos: Between Family and the Nation: Gorgo in the Cinema
12: Kirsten Day: Representing Olympias: The Politics of Gender in Cinematic Treatments of Alexander the Great
13: Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones: 'An Almost All Greek Thing': Cleopatra VII and Hollywood Imagination
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Konstantinos P. Nikoloutsos is Assistant Professor of Latin and Ancient Studies at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia. He has published a number of articles in the fields of Roman elegy, ancient history on film, and the classical tradition in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Reviews

provides valuable material for students, both undergraduates and graduates, and scholars who are interested in the reception of the classical past in cultural studies and film studies.
*Daphne Giofkou, The Kelvingrove Review,*

Ancient Greek Women in Film is a most welcome addition to classical reception studies a valuable contribution to our understanding of "transformed antiquity" and a solid basis for future research in this important area.
*Bryn Mawr Classical Review*

This excellent collection of 13 essays is yet another title in OUP's rapidly expanding and thoroughly engaging Classical Presences series ... They contain so much valuable scholarship which members of JACT and their pupils would enjoy ... I did not find a weak or dull essay in the collection and I can wholeheartedly recommend it to those who enjoy discussing modern productions on classical subjects, scrutinizing their historical accuracy, or analysing what they can tell us about the intersection of antiquity and the modern world.
*Journal of Classics Teaching*

Ancient Greek Women in Film is an important contribution to the study of cinematic receptions of ancient Greece, for which the editor and authors are to be commended. In sum, I recommend this book highly. Most chapters can serve not only scholars and graduate students but also advanced undergraduates.
*Cloelia*

The volume will be of interest to a wide range of scholars in many disciplines. Its interdisciplinary approach will make it appealing to those in American Studies, Classics, Film and Media Studies, and Gender Studies. It is a welcome contribution to the growing literature on the ancients on screen.
*Stacie Raucci, The Classical Journal Online*