Ancient Greece and Rome in Videogames: Representation, Play, Transmedia

Cover page
Halftitle page
Series page
Title page
Copyright page
Contents
I llustrations
Acknowledgements
An Introduction to Key Concepts (Or, Always Read the Manual)
	What is a videogame?
	Classical reception theory
	Transmedia and popular culture
	Going forward
1 (The Tutorial Level) How Might We Study Ancient-World Videogames?
	Approaching videogames
	History in videogames, videogames as history
	The gameplay process
	Genre frameworks
	A transmedial world of “popular antiquity”
2 Finding a New Epic in Action-Adventure Videogames
	Epic games and epic films
	God of War
	Miniature epics
	Interactive Roman epic
	Conclusions
3 Ideas of “Rome” in Ancient Strategy Games
	Making empires in the strategy game framework
	Formulating a “Roman language”
	Imperium Romanum
	Constructing “Rome” with non-Romans?
	Other indie futures for managerial Rome
	Reconfiguring classics and genre in Age of Mythology
	Conclusions
4 First-Person Antiquity Contemporaneity and Experimentality
	Embodiment and perspective
	Ancient Carthage as apocalyptic nightmare- scape
	Fear, drugs and spirituality in Eleusis
	Embodying “Sappho” and “Helen” in the visual novel
	Conclusions
Not Game Over A Conclusion
Next Steps (Or, the Inevitable Sequel)
Notes
Bibliography
Index