Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Series Editors’ Preface ix
5. Introduction: The Past and Future of Ancient Epic 1
6. PART I Surge and Splendour: Ancient Epic Conventions on the Silver Screen
7. 1 A View with (a) Room: Spatial Projections in Ancient and Screen Epic 15
8. 2 Allusions to Homeric Epic in Contemporary Films, 1984–2019 33
9. 3 ‘Mighty Saga of the World’s Mightiest Man’: Is There Such a Thing as a Modern Hercules Epic? 49
10. 4 Vergilian Echoes of Fate in Snowpiercer (2013): Engine and Empire without End 66
11. 5 A Roman Epic in Modern Japan: Screening Rome as Empire Nostalgia in Takeuchi Hideki’s Thermae Romae (2012) 82
12. 6 Looking a Gift Horse in the Mouth: Helen of Troy and the Trojan Horse 98
13. PART II From Gold to Platinum: Epic Conventions on the Small Screen
14. 7 Revival of Mythic Epics or Epic Failure? On Gods and Heroes in the Television Shows Olympus (2015) and Troy: Fall of a City (2018) 117
15. 8 Travels with Odysseus and the Odyssey in Twenty-First-Century Television Documentaries 135
16. 9 Many (Un)Happy Returns in HBO’s Game of Thrones (2011–2019) 152
17. 10 The Performance of War: Battle as Spectacle in the Iliad and Into the Badlands (2015–2019) 168
18. 11 Homeric Intimacy in NBC’s Hannibal (2013–2015) 185
19. 12 The Gods in Epic Television: The Homeric Cosmos in Battlestar Galactica (2003–2009) 201
20. 13 Towards a Definition of Twenty-First-Century Epic: Audience Responses to Game of Thrones (2011–2019) and His Dark Materials (2019–) as Epic Television 217
21. Afterword 233
22. Filmography 240
23. Bibliography 248
24. Notes on Contributors 274
25. Index 278