Classical Studies
CLA 1-364-2006

Big Screen Rome

Web Resources for Big Screen Rome


Amphitheater, Pompeii

Roman Life and Culture

Rome: Republic to Empire (VRoma)

Cleopatra of Egypt: From History to Myth (Field Museum)

Images of Fulvia, Octavia, and Cleopatra (Worlds of Roman Women)

Images of Cleopatra (Encyclopedia Romana)

Cleopatra's signature (Archaeology Magazine)

Antony, Octavian, and Cleopatra: The End of the Republic (VRoma)

The Circus Maximus (Encyclopedia Romana)

Leprosy (WHO)

Leprosy, including history of the disease and leprosy in the Bible (Catholic Encyclopedia)

Life of the Emperor Commodus (180-92 CE) (DIR)

The Roman Gladiator (CTC-Ablemedia)

The Roman Gladiator (Encyclopedia Romana)

Roman Gladiatorial Games (CUNY-Brooklyn College)

Roman Gladiator's Gravestone Describes Fatal Foul (Yahoo News)

Film Sites

Spartacus (History in Film)

Cleopatra (History in Film)

Ben-Hur (100 Greatest Films at filmsite.org)

Amy Lifson, Ben-Hur: The Book that Shook the World (Humanities Magazine)

Study Guide for Ben-Hur (Rose Williams)

Sample Essays

Spartacus vs. Gladiator (This Distracted Globe)

Historical Background to the Films

McCarthyism (Hutchinson Encyclopedia)

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Professor John Gruber-Miller
CLA 1-364-2006
Masterpieces of Greek and Roman Theater

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