Machine generated contents note:Introduction -- Part I: Homeric Spectacles in Ancient Greece and Beyond -- Introducing the Iliadic Spectacle of War: The Movement from Formal Duel to Battle Scenes in Books 3-4, Tobias Myers (Columbia University, USA) -- From Our Own Correspondent: Authorial Commentary on 'Spectacles of War' in Homer and in the Tale of the Heike, Naoko Yamagata (The Open University, UK) -- Martial Extravaganzas on the Nineteenth-Century London Stage: Robert Brough and Francis Burnand parody Homer, Justine McConnell (APGRD, Oxford University, UK) -- Simile, Spectacle and Scene: Homeric Epic and Malick's The Thin Red Line, Jon Hesk (University of St. Andrews, UK) -- Part II: Military and Cinematic Spectacles in the Service of Politics and Ideology -- Plato's Cinematic Vision: War as Spectacle in Four Dialogues (Laches, Republic, Timaeus and Critias), Andrea Capra (University of Milan, Italy) -- 'The Greatest Runway Show in History': Paul Violi's House of Xerxes and the Spectacle of War, Emma Bridges (The Open University, UK) -- Parading War and Victory under the Greek Military Dictatorship (1967-1974), Gonda Van Steen (University of Florida, USA) -- The Anti-War Spectacle: The Denunciation of War in Michael Cacoyannis' Euripidean Trilogy, Anastasia Bakogianni (The Open University, UK) -- Part III: Latin Spectacles of War -- The Spectacle of War in Roman Epic, Neil W. Bernstein (Ohio University, USA) -- Death on the Margins: Statius and the Spectacle of the Dying Epic Hero, Helen Lovatt (University of Nottingham, UK) -- Bodies and the Bereaved: The Spectacle of Mourning Rome's Fallen Soldiers, Valerie Hope (The Open University, UK) -- Shadow-Boxing in the East: The Spectacle of Romano-Parthian Conflict in Tacitus, Rhiannon Ash (Merton College, Oxford University, UK) -- Part IV: Spectacles of War in Material Culture -- An Unwinding Story: The Influence of Trajan's Column on the Depiction of Warfare, Andrew Fear (University of Manchester, UK) -- Triumphal New York: the 'Roman' Arches of New York City, Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis (City University of New York, USA) -- The Monument and Altar to Liberty: A Memory Site for the United States' Own Thermopylae, Jared Simard (The Graduate Center, CUNY, USA) -- Bibliography -- Index.
