Author Description

List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Foreword by Derek Wax, Executive Producer, Troy: Fall of a City -- Editors' Acknowledgments -- List of Episodes -- Introduction: Screening Love and War in Troy: Fall of a City (Monica S. Cyrino, University of New Mexico, USA and Antony Augoustakis, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA) -- PART I. Epic Narrative -- 1. Binge for Me, O Muse: Episodes, Books, and Cycles (Dan Curley, Skidmore College, USA) -- 2. Delineating the Divine: Gods and Religion at Troy (Lisa Maurice, Bar-Ilan University, Israel) -- 3. From Judgment to Fall: Aphrodite and Paris (Monica S. Cyrino, University of New Mexico, USA) -- 4. Sympathy for Troy's Jezebel: Helen as Antihero (Meredith E. Safran, Trinity College, USA) -- 5. The Curse of Troy: Odysseus' Story (Emma Stafford, University of Leeds, UK) -- PART II. Cast and Character -- 6. Racist Reactions to Black Achilles (Rebecca Futo Kennedy, Denison University, USA) -- 7. Pussy Politics: Women and Power in the Homeric Patriarchy (Kirsten Day, Augustana College, USA) -- 8. Queering Troy: Freedom and Sexuality (Thomas E. Jenkins, Trinity University, USA) -- 9. Heroic Hairstyles and Manless Amazons at Troy (Walter D. Penrose, San Diego State University, USA) -- 10. Costume Changes: Dressing Helen of Sparta and Troy (Stacie Raucci, Union College, USA) -- PART III. Tragic Resonances -- 11. Fallen Heroes: Recasting Ajax and the Greeks on Screen (Anastasia Bakogianni, Massey University, New Zealand) -- 12. Family vs. Compassion: Odysseus and the Ethics of War (Meredith Prince, Auburn University, USA) -- 13. Bloody Brides: Iphigenia, Helena, and Ritual Exchange (Amy L. Norgard, Truman State University, USA) -- 14. Kings of Men and Sacrificial Daughters (Krishni Burns, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA) -- 15. Lessons for Leaders: Destiny, Devotion, and Self-Deception (Brian Cooke, independent scholar, USA) -- Epilogue: Troy: Fall of a City and its Ancient Sources (Diana Burton, Victoria