Classical Studies 3800F Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Utopian And Dystopian Fiction, James Marsters, Classical Antiquity

• School: Western University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: Classical Studies 3800F
• Professor: Kyle Gervais

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A time which is coming apart at the seams, just like the roman empire did, marsters said. And in his world, people are committing human sacrifice and mass executions and mass orgies, friends are shooting each other in the head for fun. And you know, in rome it was called the coliseum, and on caprica," it"s called the v-club. Well, i don"t want to get too morose about it, but we are much like rome, you know. Bsg meditates on the construction and meaning of human, and more particularly western, identity via classical antiquity . In video games the audience members are the ones participating in the games: also a more private experience, while one is playing against many people, you are playing in your room by yourself. In both quo vadis and bread and circuses the answer went straight to christianity. In caprica, christianity is not mainstream option: the monotheistic solution is modelled after islamic terrorism.