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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 October 2020
Bloomsbury's Imagines series, edited by Filippo Carlà-Uhink and Martin Lindner, focuses on classical receptions in the visual and performing arts. It has blazed into 2020 with three edited volumes and one monograph. The monograph by Carlà-Uhink is on the reception of classical Greece in theme parks, and the edited volume that has landed on our desk is Classical Antiquity in Video Games. In this attractive volume, clad in the stylish graphics of Alientrap's Apotheon (2015), Christian Rollinger has assembled a vital collection of essays on the underexplored subject. As he emphatically proclaims, ‘Video games are everywhere’ (xiii) and this book is a lifeline for countless university teachers faced with the task of supervising students enthusiastically writing about the ever-expanding mass of classically inspired games.
1 Classical Antiquity in Video Games. Playing with the Ancient World. Edited by Rollinger, Christian. London and New York, Bloomsbury, 2020. Pp. xv + 294. 25 b/w illustrations, 2 tables. Hardback £85, ISBN: 978-1-3500-6663-2Google Scholar.
2 Tracking Classical Monsters in Popular Culture. By Gloyn, Liz. London and New York, Bloomsbury, 2020. Pp. x + 228. 30 b/w illustrations. Hardback £65, ISBN: 978-1-7845-3934-4; paperback £19.99, ISBN: 978-1-3501-0961-2CrossRefGoogle Scholar. Disclosure: Emma Bridges provided feedback to Liz Gloyn on a full draft of the manuscript for her book. To avoid any possible conflict of interest, Henry Stead wrote the review which we share here.
3 Homer's Daughters. Women's Responses to Homer in the Twentieth Century and Beyond. Edited by Cox, Fiona and Theodorakopoulos, Elena. Classical Presences. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2019. Pp. xviii + 341. 3 b/w illustrations. Hardback £75, ISBN: 978-0-19-880258-7CrossRefGoogle Scholar.
4 Classicisms in the Black Atlantic. Edited by Moyer, Ian, Lecznar, Adam, and Morse, Heidi. Classical Presences. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. xiv + 338. 14 b/w illustrations. Hardback £85, ISBN: 978-0-19-881412-2CrossRefGoogle Scholar.
5 See, for example, Lovatt, Helen and Hodkinson, Owen (eds.), Classical Reception and Children's Literature (London and New York, 2018)Google Scholar, and the work of the international Our Mythical Childhood project, <http://www.omc.obta.al.uw.edu.pl/>, accessed 2 June 2020.
6 Postdramatic Tragedies. By Cole, Emma. Classical Presences. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2019. Pp. x + 312. 8 b/w illustrations. Hardback £75, ISBN: 978-0-19-881768-0CrossRefGoogle Scholar.