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Apollo was the ancient god of light and the divine patron of the arts. He is therefore a fitting metaphor for cinematography, which is the modern art of writing with moving light. This book interprets films as visual texts and provides the first systematic theoretical and practical demonstration of the affinities between Greco-Roman literature and the cinema. It examines major themes from classical myth and history such as film portrayals of gods, exemplified by Apollo and the Muses; Oedipus, antiquity's most influential mythic-tragic hero; the question of heroism and patriotism in war; and the representation of women like Helen of Troy and Cleopatra as products of male desire and fantasy. Covering a wide range of European and American directors, genres and classical authors, this study provides an innovative perspective on the two disciplines of classics and cinema and demonstrates our most influential medium's unlimited range when it adapts ancient texts.

Film --- Classical literature --- Motion pictures and literature. --- History and criticism. --- Motion pictures and literature --- Literature and motion pictures --- Moving-pictures and literature --- Literature --- History and criticism --- Arts and Humanities --- History

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Verse satire, Latin --- Persona (Literature) --- History and criticism --- Juvenal --- Criticism and interpretation --- Rome --- In literature --- Rome in literature --- Sex in literature --- -Latin verse satire --- Latin poetry --- Characters and characteristics in literature --- Rhetoric --- First person narrative --- Point of view (Literature) --- -Iuvenalis, Decimus Junius --- Juvenalis, Decimus Junius --- Giovenale --- Giovenale, D. Giunio --- Iouvenalēs --- I︠U︡venal, D. I︠U︡nīĭ --- Yuvenalis --- Giovenale, Decimo Giunio --- Rome in literature. --- Sex in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- -History and criticism --- -Criticism and interpretation --- Persona (Literature). --- -Giovenale, D. Giunio --- Juvénal --- In literature. --- Iuvenalis, Decimus Iunius --- Iuvenalis, Decimus Junius

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Trojan War --- Trojan War. --- Motion pictures and the war. --- Troy (Motion picture) --- Troy (Motion picture). --- Mythology, Greek --- Motion pictures and the war

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Salutations. --- Salutations --- Rome --- Rome dans l'art --- Rome dans la littérature --- In motion pictures --- In art --- In literature. --- Au cinéma --- In motion pictures. --- Greetings --- Etiquette --- Manners and customs

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Martin M. Winkler argues for a new approach to various creative affinities between ancient verbal and modern visual narratives. He examines screen adaptations of classical epic, tragedy, comedy, myth, and history, exploring, for example, how ancient rhetorical principles regarding the emotions apply to moving images and how Aristotle's perspective on thrilling plot-turns can recur on screen. He also interprets several popular films, such as 300 and Nero, and analyzes works by international directors, among them Pier Paolo Pasolini (Oedipus Rex, Medea), Jean Cocteau (The Testament of Orpheus), Mai Zetterling (The Girls), Lars von Trier (Medea), Arturo Ripstein (Such Is Life), John Ford (westerns), Alfred Hitchcock (Psycho), and Spike Lee (Chi-Raq). The book demonstrates the undiminished vitality of classical myth and literature in our visual media, as with screen portrayals of Helen of Troy. It is important for all classicists and scholars and students of film, literature, and history.

Classical literature --- Classical literature. --- Film. --- Griechisch. --- Latein. --- Literatur. --- Littérature antique --- Motion pictures and literature. --- History and criticism. --- Adaptations cinématographiques --- Histoire et critique. --- Motion pictures and literature --- Cinéma et littérature. --- History and criticism --- Literature and motion pictures --- Moving-pictures and literature --- Literature --- Littérature antique --- Cinéma et littérature.