Ancient Greece and Rome in Videogames: Representation, Play, Transmedia (IMAGINES – Classical Receptions in the Visual and Performing Arts)

Cover page\nHalftitle page\nSeries page\nTitle page\nCopyright page\nContents\nI llustrations\nAcknowledgements\nAn Introduction to Key Concepts (Or, Always Read the Manual)\n	What is a videogame?\n	Classical reception theory\n	Transmedia and popular culture\n	Going forward\n1 (The Tutorial Level) How Might We Study Ancient-World Videogames?\n	Approaching videogames\n	History in videogames, videogames as history\n	The gameplay process\n	Genre frameworks\n	A transmedial world of “popular antiquity”\n2 Finding a New Epic in Action-Adventure Videogames\n	Epic games and epic films\n	God of War\n	Miniature epics\n	Interactive Roman epic\n	Conclusions\n3 Ideas of “Rome” in Ancient Strategy Games\n	Making empires in the strategy game framework\n	Formulating a “Roman language”\n	Imperium Romanum\n	Constructing “Rome” with non-Romans?\n	Other indie futures for managerial Rome\n	Reconfiguring classics and genre in Age of Mythology\n	Conclusions\n4 First-Person Antiquity Contemporaneity and Experimentality\n	Embodiment and perspective\n	Ancient Carthage as apocalyptic nightmare- scape\n	Fear, drugs and spirituality in Eleusis\n	Embodying “Sappho” and “Helen” in the visual novel\n	Conclusions\nNot Game Over A Conclusion\nNext Steps (Or, the Inevitable Sequel)\nNotes\nBibliography\nIndex