Ancient Greece in Film and Popular Culture (Revised second edition)

This revised second edition enabled the author to add a new chapter in response to the delayed release of the film . The book responds to new developments in the reception of Greece in contemporary popular culture. Nisbet covers many older favourites such as , , and as well as more recent offerings such as and Nisbet unpacks the ideas that continue to make Greece hot property – often too hot for Hollywood to handle. His lively explorations, which assume no prior expertise in classical or film studies, will appeal to all with an interest in ‘reception’: the present day’s re-use and re-invention of the past.