Race & Identity in the Ancient Greek Novel
The Ancients
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Are We Going to Make a Film Out of the Ancient World?
The ancient past is not necessarily a mirror that we could look into and find ourselves to. European imperialists cast themselves as this kind of natural inheritors of greek and roman civilization. Never mind that the greeks and romans themselves thought about themselves really differently. And so for me, it's been a really fascinating journey into self discovery through heliodorusabout modern eretrean ethiopia. It will be absolutely fascinating to see how that scene translates to cinema.
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