List of Illustrations List of Tables Notes on Contributors Acknowledgments 1. Introducing Audio-Visual Roman Women, Monika Wozniak (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) and Maria Wyke (UCL, UK) Part One: Feminising Ancient Rome in Screen Media (1900s to 1960s) 2. Feminising Ancient Rome: Women at the Cinema from the 1890s to the 1930s, Maria Wyke (UCL, UK) 3. A Threefold Feminine Divinity: The Female Characters in Messalina (1923), Stella Dagna (former archivist at the Turin National Cinema Museum, Italy) 4. Spicing up Lygia in Quo Vadis (1951): The Development of Female Characters from Script to Screen, Monika Wozniak (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) 5. Screening the Elite Roman Female's Gaze of Desire, Monica Silveira Cyrino (University of New Mexico, USA) 6. Caesar's Daughter: Lucilla on Screen, Martin M. Winkler (George Mason University, USA) 7.
Poppaea's Eroticisation in Cinema, Nuno Simões Rodrigues (University of Lisbon, Portugal) Part Two: Screen Media in the Light of Feminism (1970s to 2020s) 8. Women Who Hit the Screen: Female Gladiators in Film and Television, Patrycja Rojek (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland) 9. Dramatic Persona: Livia Drusilla in A World of Television Antiquity, Radoslaw Pietka (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland) 10. British Women in a Roman World: Female Figures in Audiovisual Works About the Ninth Legion, Panayiota Mini (University of Crete, Greece) 11. A Practitioner's Tale: History and the Performance of Roman Women in HBO's Rome , Jonathan Stamp (television documentary maker and historical consultant) 12. Mothers, Murderers and Mistresses: Empresses of Ancient Rome (2013): A Feminist Turn?, Fiona Hobden (Open University, UK) 13. Between Myth, History and Popular Culture: The Character of Ilia in the TV Series Romulus (2020-22), Konrad Dominas (University of Adam Mickiewicz, Poland) 14. Powerless and Powerful Language in Domina , Luca Valleriani (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) 15.
El corazón del imperio ( The Heart of the Empire , 2021): Transgressions of Gender Norms in a Docudrama on Roman Women, Oskar Aguado-Cantabrana (University of the Basque Country, Spain) and Patricia González Gutiérrez (independent researcher) Part Three: New Media & Consumer Agency 16. An Expedition into Agency: The Portrayal of Roman Women in Expeditions: Rome, Kate Cook (University of St Andrews, UK) 17. Rewriting Televisual Monsters: Livia and Atia in Fanfiction, Amanda Potter (Open University and University of Liverpool, UK) Notes Mediography Bibliography Index.