Popular Imagination vs Historical Reality: What does HBO’s Rome Reveal about the Practice of History?
This paper is as much about history and popular imagination as it is about historical films. It argues that it is not historical accuracy or film as historical evidence that matters, but the historical questions and debates that film raises for its audience and the historical profession regarding the past it presents and its implication on history.
5 Ancient Stories That Would Make Good TV Shows
Here are my picks of ancient stories that I believe would make for decent TV.
Mothers, Murderers And Mistresses: Empresses Of Ancient Rome coming to the BBC
The first episode will be aired on BBC 4 on Wednesday 29 May at 9pm.
The Persistence of Vision and Rear-View Mirror of ‘Spartacus’
Spartacus, the perennially misunderstood television series, has just completed its consistently spectacular run with a triumphant finale.