Despite the prevalence of video games set in or inspired by
classical antiquity, the medium has to date remained markedly
understudied in the disciplines of classics and ancient history,
with the role of women in these video games especially neglected.
Women in Classical Video Games seeks to address this imbalance as
the first book-length work of scholarship to examine the depiction
of women in video games set in classical antiquity. The volume
surveys the history of women in these games and the range of
figures presented from the 1980s to the modern day, alongside
discussion of issues such as historical accuracy, authenticity,
gender, sexuality, monstrosity, hegemony, race and ethnicity, and
the use of tropes. A wide range of games of different types and
modes are discussed, with particular attention paid to the
Assassin's Creed franchise's 21st-century ventures into classical
antiquity (first in Origins (2017), set in Hellenistic Egypt, and
then in Odyssey (2018), set in classical Greece), which have caught
the imagination not only of gamers, but also of academics,
especially in relation to their accompanying educational Discovery
Modes. The detailed case studies presented here form a compelling
case for the indispensability of the medium to both reception
studies and gender studies, and offer nuanced answers to such
questions as how and why women are portrayed in the ways that they
are.
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