Spartacus: Film and History

“These essays – lively and learned – give new new depth to the greatest gladiator film of all time. Historians and film scholars pool their talents to show afresh how Kubrick’s Spartacus was made and what this ancient slave revolt means to us today”
Natalie Zemon Davis, author of The Return of Martin Guerre and slaves on Screen

“Nobody teaching a classics film course and no classics library can afford to be without this book. It is a major contribution to our understanding of one of the mos...