Carthage Imagined. From Giovanni Pastrone’s Cabiria (1914) to Game of Thrones (2012)

Authors

  • Dorota Gorzelany National Museum in Kraków, Princes Czartoryski Museum, 31-015 Kraków, 8 Pijarska Street
  • Patrycja Matusiak University of Silesia, Department of Classical Studies, 40-032 Katowice, pl. Sejmu Śląskiego 1

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18778/1733-0319.19.10

Keywords:

Kartagina, historiofotia, recepcja antyku, ‘Cabiria’, ‘Gra o tron’, J.M.W. Turner

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to present the historiophotic image of Carthage and Carthaginians and also to demonstrate what made-up stories take from the image of antiquity present in our collective consciousness, what motifs were an inspiration for the creators of both the film and the TV series (hictorical motifs but also architecture – very important for the background, e.g. Punic temple of Moloch in Cabiria or frequent Egyptian borrowings – and 19th century paintings by J.M.W. Turner), how ancient code was used to discuss politics of the day (in Cabiria, the fights between pacifists and nationalists calling for the conquest of Africa), whether D’Annunzianism had any impact on the film and how Cabiria fits into the historical-Roman trend. Antiquity presented and imagined as above were analysed on two levels – philological and archaeological (including architectural elements building up urban structures, decorative sculptures, interior decoration, everyday objects and clothing).

Author Biographies

  • Dorota Gorzelany, National Museum in Kraków, Princes Czartoryski Museum, 31-015 Kraków, 8 Pijarska Street

    She is a Classical archaeologist, Curator of the Ancient Art Collection and Head of the Department of Princes Czartoryski Museum at the National Museum in Krakow. She is an author of „Macedonia-Aleksandria. Analiza monumentalnych założeń grobowych z okresu późnoklasycznego i hellenistycznego” (2014) and many articles on Greek vase painting, iconography and the history of the museum collection.

  • Patrycja Matusiak, University of Silesia, Department of Classical Studies, 40-032 Katowice, pl. Sejmu Śląskiego 1

    She is an Assistant Professor in Classics at University of Silesia in Katowice (Department of Classical Studies). She researches Punic history, ancient historiography and antiquity in comics. She is also the author of a monograph on Hannibal entitled „Obraz Hannibala w literaturze antycznej” (Katowice 2015), co-editor of „Szkice o Antyku” and „Scripta Classica”.

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Published

2016-12-30

Issue

No. 19 (2016)

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Articles

How to Cite

Gorzelany, Dorota, and Patrycja Matusiak. 2016. “Carthage Imagined. From Giovanni Pastrone’s Cabiria (1914) to Game of Thrones (2012)”. Collectanea Philologica, no. 19 (December): 117-28. https://doi.org/10.18778/1733-0319.19.10.
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