Screening Love and War in Troy: Fall of a City

Antony Augoustakis is Professor of Classics at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA. He is the author of Motherhood and the Other: Fashioning Female Power in Flavian Epic (2010) and Statius, Thebaid 8 (2016). He is the editor of the Brill Companion to Silius Italicus (2010), Ritual and Religion in Flavian Epic (2013), Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014), Oxford Readings in Flavian Epic (2016), and co-editor of the Blackwell Companion to Terence (with Ariana Traill, 2013), STARZ Spartacus: Reimagining an Icon on Screen (with Monica S. Cyrino, 2017), and Epic Heroes on Screen (with Stacie Raucci, 2018).Monica S. Cyrino is Professor of Classics at the University of New Mexico, USA. She is the author of Aphrodite (2010), A Journey through Greek Mythology (2008), Big Screen Rome (2005), and In Pandora’s Jar: Lovesickness in Early Greek Poetry (1995). She is the editor of Rome, Season Two: Trial and Triumph (2015), Screening Love and Sex in the Ancient World (2013), Rome, Season One: History Makes Television (2008), and co-editor of Classical Myth on Screen (with Meredith E. Safran, 2015), and STARZ Spartacus: Reimagining an Icon on Screen (with Antony Augoustakis, 2017).

Screening Love and War in Troy: Fall of a City helps orient viewers to the series’ many points of reference in ancient Greek and Roman mythology, literature, and art, including the lost Epic Cycle, traditions of tragic drama, and Virgil’s Aeneid alongside the foundational Homeric Iliad. The chapters offer a range of approaches to topics in the story, in the series as an example of television and cinema, and in how both have been received by audiences. This volume is a thought-provoking study of Troy: Fall of a City and is likely to be of interest to fans as well as other students of classical receptions on screen.

• List of Illustrations Notes on ContributorsForeword by Derek Wax, Executive Producer, Troy: Fall of a CityEditors’ Acknowledgments List of EpisodesIntroduction: Screening Love and War in Troy: Fall of a City (Monica S. Cyrino, University of New Mexico, USA and Antony Augoustakis, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA)PART I. Epic Narrative1. Binge for Me, O Muse: Episodes, Books, and Cycles (Dan Curley, Skidmore College, USA)2. Delineating the Divine: Gods and Religion at Troy (Lisa Maurice, Bar-Ilan University, Israel)3. From Judgment to Fall: Aphrodite and Paris (Monica S. Cyrino, University of New Mexico, USA)4. Sympathy for Troy’s Jezebel: Helen as Antihero (Meredith E. Safran, Trinity College, USA)5. The Curse of Troy: Odysseus’ Story (Emma Stafford, University of Leeds, UK)PART II. Cast and Character6. Racist Reactions to Black Achilles (Rebecca Futo Kennedy, Denison University, USA)7. Pussy Politics: Women and Power in the Homeric Patriarchy (Kirsten Day, Augustana College, USA)8. Queering Troy: Freedom and Sexuality (Thomas E. Jenkins, Trinity University, USA)9. Heroic Hairstyles and Manless Amazons at Troy (Walter D. Penrose, San Diego State University, USA)10. Costume Changes: Dressing Helen of Sparta and Troy (Stacie Raucci, Union College, USA)PART III. Tragic Resonances11. Fallen Heroes: Recasting Ajax and the Greeks on Screen (Anastasia Bakogianni, Massey University, New Zealand)12. Family vs. Compassion: Odysseus and the Ethics of War (Meredith Prince, Auburn University, USA)13. Bloody Brides: Iphigenia, Helena, and Ritual Exchange (Amy L. Norgard, Truman State University, USA)14. Kings of Men and Sacrificial Daughters (Krishni Burns, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)15. Lessons for Leaders: Destiny, Devotion, and Self-Deception (Brian Cooke, independent scholar, USA)Epilogue: Troy: Fall of a City and its Ancient Sources (Diana Burton, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)BibliographyFilmography Index