Films and TV series, from ‘Jason and the Argonauts’ to ‘I, Claudius’, continue to shape our understanding of antiquity. Alec Guinness in 'The Fall of the Roman Empire', 1964. Credit: Prisma by Dukas Presseagentur GmbH My first encounter with a film about the Ancient World was Pietro Francisci’s Hercules Unchained (1957), loosely ‘based on’ Sophocles’s … Continue reading A guide to screening the Ancient World