Cyrino M.S. (ed.) Screening Love and Sex in the Ancient World

Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. — 275 p.Introduction Screening Love and Sex in the Ancient World
G. W. Pabst’s Hesiodic Myth of Sex in Die Büchse der Pandora (1929)
Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
Perversions of the Phaeacians
Woman Trouble
Sappho and Pocahontas in Terrence Malick’s The New World (2005)
Soul Fuck
Ancient Allusions and Modern Anxieties in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)
Gorgo at the Limits of Liberation in Zack Snyder’s 300 (2007)
Oliver Stone’s Unmanning of Alexander the Great in Alexander (2004)
The Order of Orgies
Partnership and Love in Spartacus: Blood and Sand (2010)
Objects of Desire
Glenn Close Channels Theda Bara in Maxie (1985)
Virility and Licentiousness in Rome’s Mark Antony (2005–7)
Love, Rebellion, and Cleavage
Subverting Sex and Love in Alejandro Amenábar’s Agora (2009)