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Classical Antiquity in Video Games - Playing with the Ancient World (Hardcover)
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Classical Antiquity in Video Games - Playing with the Ancient World (Hardcover)
Series: IMAGINES - Classical Receptions in the Visual and Performing Arts
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From gaming consoles to smartphones, video games are everywhere
today, including those set in historical times and particularly in
the ancient world. This volume explores the varied depictions of
the ancient world in video games and demonstrates the potential
challenges of games for scholars as well as the applications of
game engines for educational and academic purposes. With successful
series such as "Assassin's Creed" or "Civilization" selling
millions of copies, video games rival even television and cinema in
their role in shaping younger audiences' perceptions of the past.
Yet classical scholarship, though embracing other popular media as
areas of research, has so far largely ignored video games as a
vehicle of classical reception. This collection of essays fills
this gap with a dedicated study of receptions, remediations and
representations of Classical Antiquity across all electronic gaming
platforms and genres. It presents cutting-edge research in classics
and classical receptions, game studies and archaeogaming, adopting
different perspectives and combining papers from scholars, gamers,
game developers and historical consultants. In doing so, it
delivers the first state-of-the-art account of both the wide array
of 'ancient' video games, as well as the challenges and rewards of
this new and exciting field.
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