Return to Troy : : new essays on the Hollywood epic / / edited by Martin M. Winkler ; contributors, Horst-Dieter Blume [and nine others].

Return to Troy presents essays by American and European classical scholars on the Director’s Cut of Troy , a Hollywood film inspired by Homer’s Iliad . The book addresses major topics that are important for any twenty-first century representation of ancient Greek myth and literature in the visual me...

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Superior document:Metaforms : Studies in the Reception of Classical Antiquity, Volume 5
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts]b : : Brill,, 2015.
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Metaforms ; Volume 5.
Physical Description:1 online resource (294 pages) :; colour illustrations, photographs.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material / Martin M. Winkler
  • Introduction: Troy Revisited / Martin M. Winkler
  • Wolfgang Petersen on Homer and Troy / Martin M. Winkler
  • Live from Troy: Embedded in the Trojan War / Daniel Petersen
  • In the Footsteps of Homeric Narrative: Anachronisms and Other Supposed Mistakes in Troy / Eleonora Cavallini
  • Petersen’s Epic Technique: Troy and Its Homeric Model / Wolfgang Kofler and Florian Schaffenrath
  • Troy and the Cinematic Afterlife of Homeric Gods / Martin M. Winkler
  • Achilles and Patroclus in Troy / Horst-Dieter Blume
  • Odysseus in Troy / Bruce Louden
  • A New Briseis in Troy / Barbara P. Weinlich
  • The Fall of Troy: Intertextual Presences in Wolfgang Petersen’s Film / Antonio M. Martín-Rodríguez
  • Homer’s Iliad in Popular Culture: The Roads to Troy / Jon Solomon
  • Coda: On Cinematic Tributes to Homer and the Iliad / Martin M. Winkler
  • Bibliography / Martin M. Winkler
  • Index of Films and Television Productions / Martin M. Winkler
  • General Index / Martin M. Winkler.