Contents

pp v-vi

Series Editors’ Preface

pp vii-viii

Editor's Acknowledgments

pp ix-ix

Contributors

pp x-xiii

Illustrations

pp xiv-xvi

Abbreviations

pp xvii-xviii

Introduction: Searching for Gold in an Age of Iron

pp 1-24

PART I - THE GLORY THAT WAS GREECE

pp 25-26

1 - Re-(en)gendering Heroism: Reflective Nostalgia for Peplum's Golden Age of Heroes in Hercules: The Legendary Journeys 2.14 (1996)

pp 27-43

2 - Kissed by the Muse of Roller-Disco: Utopia versus the Golden Ages of America, Hollywood, and Classical Myth in Xanadu (1980)

pp 44-64

3 - Gilding American History through Song Culture in O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)

pp 65-82

4 - A Leonidas for the Golden Age of Superhero Films: The Thermopylae Tradition in 300 (2006)

pp 83-100

5 - The Dueling Greek Golden Ages of 300: Rise of an Empire (2014)

pp 101-118

6 - Confronting the Ancient Greek Golden Age in Jules Dassin's Phaedra (1962)

pp 119-136

7 - Pericles, Cincinnatus, and Zombies: Classicizing Nostalgia in The Walking Dead (2010–)

pp 137-154

PART II - THE GRANDEUR THAT WAS ROME

pp 155-156

8 - “All That Glitters …”: Problematizing Golden-Age Narratives in Vergil's Aeneid and the Western Film Genre

pp 157-174

9 - The Golden Age and Imperial Dominance in the Aeneid and Serenity (2005)

pp 175-190

10 - Turning Gold into Lead: Sexual Pathology and the De-mythologizing of Augustus in HBO's Rome (2005–2007)

pp 191-206

11 - The Dux Femina Ends Westeros’ Golden Age: Cersei Lannister as Agrippina the Younger in HBO's Game of Thrones (2011–)

pp 207-224

12 - The Golden Aspects of Roman Imperialism in Film, 1914–2015

pp 225-242

13 - Broken Eagles: The Iron Age of Imperial Roman Warfare in Post-9/11 Film

pp 243-258

14 - Dreaming of Rome with Ridley Scott's Gladiator (2000)

pp 259-276

Filmography

pp 277-282

Bibliography

pp 283-313

Index

pp 314-329