Rome, season two : trial and triumph /
A collection of 17 cutting-edge essays on Rome Season TwoSet in the turbulent years after Caesar's assassination in 44 BC, Season Two of the HBO-BBC series Rome lays bare a city shaken by the violent power struggle between Octavian, Caesar's adopted son and heir, and Mark Antony, his most...
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| Language: | English |
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Edinburgh University Press,
2015.
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| Series: | Screening antiquity.
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Table of Contents:
- Title page; Copyright; Contents; Series Editors' Preface ; Editor's Acknowledgments ; Contributors; Illustrations; Rome, Season Two Episode Listing ; Rome, Season Two Cast List ; Introduction: The Trials and Triumphs of Rome, Season Two ; PART I Power and Politics ; 1 A Touch Too Cerebral: Eulogizing Caesar in Rome ; 2 Discharging Pullo and Vorenus: Veterans in Rome ; 3 Gangsterism in Rome ; 4 Class, Chaos, and Control in Rome ; 5 Earning Immortality: Cicero's Death Scene in Rome ; 6 The Triumvirate of the Ring in Rome ; 7 Jews and Judaism in Rome ; PART II Sex and Status.
- 8 Revenge and Rivalry in Rome 9 Effigies of Atia and Servilia: Effacing the Female Body in Rome ; 10 Livia, Sadomasochism, and the Anti-Augustan Tradition in Rome ; 11 Windows and Mirrors: Illuminating the Invisible Women of Rome ; 12 Antony and Atia: Tragic Romance in Rome ; 13 Problematic Masculinity: Antony and the Political Sphere in Rome ; 14 Rome, Shakespeare, and the Dynamics of the Cleopatra Reception ; 15 The Rattle of the Sistrum: "Othering" Cleopatra and Egypt in Rome ; 16 Gateways to Vice: Drugs and Sex in Rome ; 17 Slashing Rome: Season Two Rewritten in Online Fanfiction.
