Óscar Lapeña Marchena is a Lecturer in Ancient History at the Universidad de Cádiz, Spain. He specialises in the peplum genre and has worked extensively on topics such as Spartacus, Alexander, the ancient city and the Roman Republic in cinema. Among his publications are the monographs El mito de Espartaco: de Capua a Hollywood (2007) and Guida al cinema peplum / Sword and Sandal Movie Guide (2009 and 2012).

Marta García Morcillo is a Senior Lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Roehampton, UK. Her research interests are Roman economic history and antiquity in film and visual culture. She has coedited Hellas on Screen (2008) and Seduction and Power: Antiquity in the Visual and Performing Arts (2013).

Pauline Hanesworth is an Academic Development Officer at the Higher Education Academy and an Independent Researcher. She specialises in Archaic and Classical Greek myth and religion, and their receptions in the modern worlds. She has published on both as well as on Athens in Central-Eastern European Film.

1. Introduction: Cinematic Cityscapes and the Ancient Past Marta García Morcillo and Pauline Hanesworth 2. The Babylon of D. W. Griffith's Intolerance Michael Seymour 3. City of God: Ancient Jerusalem and the Holy Land In Cinema Leonardo Gregoratti 4. From Ithaca to Troy: The Homeric City in Cinema and Television Francisco Salvador Ventura 5. Utopia: Cinematic Sparta as an Idea (Not A City) Thomas Blank 6. Monuments, Men and Metaphors: Recreating Ancient Athens in Film Pauline Hanesworth 7. City of Lights: Ancient Alexandria in Cinema and Modern Imagination Nacho García 8. The East in the West: The Rise and Fall of Ancient Carthage in Modern Imagery and in Film Marta García Morcillo 9. "Rome is No Longer in Rome": In Search of the Eternal City in Cinema Alberto Prieto Arciniega 10. "It is like Soho, Only Bigger": Doctor Who and Modern Interpretations of Pompeii Rosario Rovira Guardiola 11. The Late Antique City in Movies Filippo Carlà and Andreas Goltz 12. Barbaricum - Civilisation of Savages Martin Lindner 13. Atlantis and Other Fictional Ancient Cities Óscar Lapeña Marchena