CLAS 3813: "Ancient Greece & Rome in Film" - Disney's Hercules

January 15, 2025 (6:30 pm)

Location: BAC 132


Join us for a screening of Disney's animated film "Hercules" happening in BAC 132, on Wednesday, January 15, 2025 at 6:30pm.
 
CLAS 3813 "Ancient Greece and Rome in Film" is a course happening this term that looks at how our modern visions and adaptations of ancient Mediterranean societies attempt to represent the realities of the past while simultaneously shedding light on our contemporary identities, politics, gender roles, and popular culture.
 
Instructor, Dr. Chelsea Gardner, is showing a total of 10 movies on Wednesday nights (BAC 132, 6:30pm), and these screenings are open to the Acadia community (and to invited guests if you have friends/family who'd like to attend!). CLAS 3813 students will give short introductions to the films with historical context (both from antiquity and from when the film was actually made) and then we will have time to discuss afterwards.
 
The Acadia campus was surveyed for their input on which films to include this term. Here is a list of the movies that will be shown every Wed from now (except Feb 19) until the end of March:
 
January 15th: Disney’s Hercules
January 22nd: O Brother, Where Art Thou?
January 29th: Antigone
February 5th: Chi-Raq
February 12th: 300
NOTE February 19th: NO MOVIE (reading week)
February 26th: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Forum
March 5th: Spartacus
March 12th: Cleopatra
March 19th: Ovid and the Art of Love
March 26th : Monty Python’s Life of Brian
 
See you at the movies!

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