Introduction (Jane Draycott, University of Glasgow, UK and Kate Cook, Durham University, UK); Part One; 1. Playable Girls in Ancient Worlds: Athena (1986) Opens the Door (Dunstan Lowe, University of Kent, UK); 2. A Historical Overview of Women in Ancient-Period Video Games (Jordy Orellana Figueroa, Eberhard Karls University of Tuebingen, Germany); 3. Dangerous Defaults: Demographics and Identities Within and Without Video Games (Marcie Persyn, University of Pittsburg, USA); ; Part Two; 4. The Maiden, the Mother and the Monster: The Monstrous-Feminine in Historical and Archaeological Video Games (Dan Goad, Independent Scholar, UK); 5. Bringing Down the Divine Patriarchy through Deicide in Apotheon (2015) (Amy Norgard, Truman State University, USA); 6. Argonautic Women? Gender and Heroic Status in Rise of the Argonauts (Sophie Ngan, Durham University, UK); 7. Good Riddance: Refiguring Eurydice in Supergiant's Hades (Kira Jones, Emory University, USA); 8. Reception and Representation of Greco-Roman Goddesses in Smite: Battleground of the Gods (Katherine Beydler, University of Michigan, USA); 9. Aphrodite, A Caricature of Female Sexuality (Olivia Ciaccia, University of Bristol, UK); ; Part Three; 10. Violence against Women in Classical Video Games (Hannah-Marie Chidwick, University of Bristol, UK); 11. Playing Cleopatra in Assassin's Creed Origins (Jane Draycott, University of Glasgow, UK); 12. Playing Salammbo? Orientalism, Gender and Gaming with the Punic World (Andrew Dufton, University of Edinburgh, UK); 13. Kassandra's Odyssey (Richard Cole, University of Bristol, UK); 14. 'We Do What we Must to Survive': Prostitution and Power in Assassin's Creed Odyssey' (Roz Tuplin, GameLondon, UK); 15. 'It's the Most Freedom a Woman can Have': Gender, Genre and Agency in Choices: A Courtesan of Rome (Kate Cook, Durham University, UK); ; Notes; Bibliography; Index
