Monica S. Cyrino is Professor of Classics at the University of New Mexico. Her scholarly research centers on the reception of the ancient world on screen. She has published numerous books and articles and often gives lectures around the world on the representation of classical antiquity on film and television. She has served as an academic consultant on several recent film and television productions.

• Illustrations; Contributors; Episode Guide; Introduction: The Trials and Triumphs of Rome Season Two, Monica S. Cyrino; Part I Power and Politics; 1. A Touch Too Cerebral: Eulogizing Caesar in Rome, Angeline C. Chiu; 2. Discharging Pullo and Vorenus: Veterans in Rome, Lee L. Brice; 3. Gangsterism in Rome, Arthur J. Pomeroy; 4. Class, Chaos, and Control in Rome, Margaret M. Toscano; 5. Earning Immortality: Cicero’s Death Scene in Rome, Eran Almagor; 6. The Triumvirate of the Ring in Rome, Barbara Weiden Boyd; 7. Jews and Judaism in Rome, Lisa Maurice; Part II Sex and Status; 8. Revenge and Rivalry in Rome, Stacie Raucci; 9. Effigies of Atia and Servilia: Effacing the Female Body in Rome, Antony Augoustakis; 10. Livia, Sadomasochism, and the Anti-Augustan Tradition in Rome, Anna McCullough; 11. Windows and Mirrors: Illuminating the Invisible Women of Rome, Kirsten Day; 12. Antony and Atia: Tragic Romance in Rome, Juliette Harrisson; 13. Problematic Masculinity: Antony and the Political Sphere in Rome, Rachael Kelly; 14. Rome, Shakespeare, and the Dynamics of the Cleopatra Reception, Gregory N. Daugherty; 15. The Rattle of the Sistrum: “Othering” Cleopatra and Egypt in Rome, John J. Johnston; 16. Gateways to Vice: Drugs and Sex in Rome, Alex McAuley; 17. Slashing Rome: Season Two Rewritten in Online Fanfiction, Amanda Potter; Filmography; Bibliography; Index

This book is a welcome addition to cinematic reception research and opens up one of the most complex productions which the newer antique film has to offer. The variety of presented approaches and topics is impressive and will certainly have a stimulating effect on further studies. Rome, Season Two: Trial and Triumph is a worthy opening of the new series of Screening Antiquity.