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Introduction / (Jane Draycott, University of Glasgow, UK and Kate Cook, Durham University, UK)
Part 1. Women in Classical Video Games: An Overview. 1. Playable Girls in Ancient Worlds: Athena (1986) Opens the Door / (Dunstan Lowe, University of Kent, UK) ; 2. A Historical Overview of Women in Ancient-Period Video Games / (Jordy Orellana Figueroa, Eberhard Karls University of Tèubingen, Germany) ; 3. Dangerous Defaults: Demographics and Identities Within and Without Video Games / (Marcie Persyn, University of Pittsburg, USA) ; 4. Developing Female Agency in the Grand-Strategy Legacies of Rome: The Total War, Age of Empires and Paradox Interactive Franchises Reappraised / (Becca Grose, University of Reading, UK and Markus Mindrebo, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK) ; 5. From Rulers to 'Great People': Representations of Women in the Civilization Series' / (Joshua R. Hall, Ancient World Magazine , USA)
Part 2. Goddesses, Monsters and Mortals: Specific Studies. 6. The Maiden, the Mother and the Monster: The Monstrous-Feminine in Historical and Archaeological Video Games / (Dan Goad, Independent Scholar, UK) ; 7. Bringing Down the Divine Patriarchy through Deicide in Apotheon (2015) / (Amy Norgard, Truman State University, USA) ; 8. Violence against Women in Classical Video Games / (Hannah-Marie Chidwick, University of Bristol, UK) ; 9. 'It's the Most Freedom a Woman can Have': Gender, Genre and Agency in Choices: A Courtesan of Rome / (Kate Cook, Durham University, UK) ; 10. Argonautic Women? Gender and Heroic Status in Rise of the Argonauts / (Sophie Ngan, Durham University, UK) ; 11. Digital Katabasis: Figuring the Divine in Supergiant's Hades / (Kira Jones, Emory University, USA) ; 12. Reception and Representation of Greco-Roman Goddesses in Smite: Battleground of the Gods / (Katherine Beydler, University of Michigan, USA) ; 13. Playing SalammbĂ´' Orientalism, Gender and Gaming with the Punic World / (Andrew Dufton, University of Edinburgh, UK) ; 14. The Nature and Deeds of Athena in God of War / (Camilla Tosi, University of Ferrara, Italy) ; 15. Aphrodite, A Caricature of Female Sexuality / (Olivia Kinsman, University of Bristol, UK)
Part 3. The Assassin's Creed Franchise. 16. Assembled through Play: Women in Assassin's Creed Odyssey / (Anna Foka, Uppsala University, Sweden and Lina Eklund, Uppsala University, Sweden) ; 17. Kassandra's Odyssey: The Promise, Playability, and Reception of the Assassin's Creed Heroine' / (Richard Cole, University of Bristol, UK) ; 18. 'We Do What we Must to Survive': Prostitution and Power in Assassin's Creed Odyssey ' / (Roz Tuplin, GameLondon, UK) ; 19. Playing Cleopatra in Assassin's Creed Origins / (Jane Draycott, University of Glasgow, UK)
Index.
Part 1. Women in Classical Video Games: An Overview. 1. Playable Girls in Ancient Worlds: Athena (1986) Opens the Door / (Dunstan Lowe, University of Kent, UK) ; 2. A Historical Overview of Women in Ancient-Period Video Games / (Jordy Orellana Figueroa, Eberhard Karls University of Tèubingen, Germany) ; 3. Dangerous Defaults: Demographics and Identities Within and Without Video Games / (Marcie Persyn, University of Pittsburg, USA) ; 4. Developing Female Agency in the Grand-Strategy Legacies of Rome: The Total War, Age of Empires and Paradox Interactive Franchises Reappraised / (Becca Grose, University of Reading, UK and Markus Mindrebo, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK) ; 5. From Rulers to 'Great People': Representations of Women in the Civilization Series' / (Joshua R. Hall, Ancient World Magazine , USA)
Part 2. Goddesses, Monsters and Mortals: Specific Studies. 6. The Maiden, the Mother and the Monster: The Monstrous-Feminine in Historical and Archaeological Video Games / (Dan Goad, Independent Scholar, UK) ; 7. Bringing Down the Divine Patriarchy through Deicide in Apotheon (2015) / (Amy Norgard, Truman State University, USA) ; 8. Violence against Women in Classical Video Games / (Hannah-Marie Chidwick, University of Bristol, UK) ; 9. 'It's the Most Freedom a Woman can Have': Gender, Genre and Agency in Choices: A Courtesan of Rome / (Kate Cook, Durham University, UK) ; 10. Argonautic Women? Gender and Heroic Status in Rise of the Argonauts / (Sophie Ngan, Durham University, UK) ; 11. Digital Katabasis: Figuring the Divine in Supergiant's Hades / (Kira Jones, Emory University, USA) ; 12. Reception and Representation of Greco-Roman Goddesses in Smite: Battleground of the Gods / (Katherine Beydler, University of Michigan, USA) ; 13. Playing SalammbĂ´' Orientalism, Gender and Gaming with the Punic World / (Andrew Dufton, University of Edinburgh, UK) ; 14. The Nature and Deeds of Athena in God of War / (Camilla Tosi, University of Ferrara, Italy) ; 15. Aphrodite, A Caricature of Female Sexuality / (Olivia Kinsman, University of Bristol, UK)
Part 3. The Assassin's Creed Franchise. 16. Assembled through Play: Women in Assassin's Creed Odyssey / (Anna Foka, Uppsala University, Sweden and Lina Eklund, Uppsala University, Sweden) ; 17. Kassandra's Odyssey: The Promise, Playability, and Reception of the Assassin's Creed Heroine' / (Richard Cole, University of Bristol, UK) ; 18. 'We Do What we Must to Survive': Prostitution and Power in Assassin's Creed Odyssey ' / (Roz Tuplin, GameLondon, UK) ; 19. Playing Cleopatra in Assassin's Creed Origins / (Jane Draycott, University of Glasgow, UK)
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