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Cover page 1 Halftitle page 2 Series page 3 Title page 4 Copyright page 5 Contents 6 Illustrations 8 Contributors 10 Preface 14 Prologue Playing with the Ancient World 18 Classical reception, history and video games 20 Existing scholarship 21 Resources 25 This book 27 A way forward 31 Notes 33 1 An Archaeology of Ancient Historical Video Games 36 Hardware and genre 37 Genre and history 39 Ancient history in video games 43 Antiquity, gamified 56 Notes 57 Part One A Brave Old World Re-Figurations of Ancient Cultures 62 2 Ludus (Not) Over 64 Classical reception in video games: A set of features 68 Notes 75 3 Playing in a ‘Real’ Past 80 Archaeogaming and the developing agenda 80 Fantastic pasts: Ryse: Son of Rome 81 Realism and representation: Assassin’s Creed 86 Conclusion: The value of critical gaming 91 Notes 92 4 The Representation of Women in 94 Women as damsels in distress 96 Women as sexual objects 100 Women and sex, trauma and violence 101 Conclusion 105 Notes 105 Part Two A World at War Martial Re-Presentations of the Ancient World 108 5 Battle Narratives from Ancient Historiography to Total War: Rome II 110 The Battle of Teutoburg: A long history 111 From Suetonius to interne
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- Author
- ajay
- Published
- 2019
- Language
- EN
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Poetry, American Poetry, Humanities