Ancient Greece and Rome in Videogames
Representation, Play, Transmedia
Series: IMAGINES ? Classical Receptions in the Visual and Performing Arts;
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Academic
- Date of Publication 26 January 2023
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9781350194113
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages240 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations 25 bw illus 482
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Long description:
This volume presents an original framework for the study of video games that use visual materials and narrative conventions from ancient Greece and Rome. It focuses on the culturally rich continuum of ancient Greek and Roman games, treating them not just as representations, but as functional interactive products that require the player to interpret, communicate with and alter them. Tracking the movement of such concepts across different media, the study builds an interconnected picture of antiquity in video games within a wider transmedial environment.
Ancient Greece and Rome in Videogames presents a wide array of games from several different genres, ranging from the blood-spilling violence of god-killing and gladiatorial combat to meticulous strategizing over virtual Roman Empires and often bizarre adventures in pseudo-ancient places. Readers encounter instances in which players become intimately engaged with the "epic mode" of spectacle in God of War, moments of negotiation with colonised lands in Rome: Total War and Imperium Romanum, and multi-layered narratives rich with ancient traditions in games such as Eleusis and Salammbo. The case study approach draws on close analysis of outstanding examples of the genre to uncover how both representation and gameplay function in such "ancient games".
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
An introduction to key concepts (or, always read the manual)
1. (or, a Tutorial Level): How Might We Study Ancient-World Videogames?
2. Finding a New Epic in Action-Adventure Videogames
3. Ideas of "Rome" in Ancient Strategy Games
4. First-Person Antiquity: Contemporaneity and Experimentality
Not Game Over: A Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
