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The New Peplum Citation
Dr. Claire Elizabeth Greenhalgh sites myself, Hannah Mueller, and Jerry Pierce from The New Peplum in their PhD thesis, “The Depiction of Slavery in Ancient World Television Drama: Politics, Culture and Society.” The thesis can be read here and the citation has been added to The New Peplum page.
Podcast Appearances
Michele and I interview author Janet Joyce Holden on the Scholars from the Edge of Time show.
Michele and I were interviewed on the Chatting with Sherri show. The episode will be published on 2020-10-29 at Blog Talk Radio.
Ann Radcliffe Academic Conference
The CFP for the Ann Radcliffe Academic conference is still open until the end of November. It can be viewed at the StokerCon 2021 website.
General Neo-Peplum News
New Netflix Show
Netflix premiered a new neo-peplum miniseries on Friday called Barbarians. The brief description reads: “Torn between the mighty empire that raised him and his own tribal people, a Roman officer’s conflicted allegiances lead to an epic historical clash.”
Literature
The folks at Lousy Book Covers feature a Biblical peplum book with a, well, lousy book cover: Unworthy: A Soldier. A Servant. A Savior by T. M. Hedlund.
Amy Wolf recently published The Further Labors of Nick, book 2 of their Mythos trilogy.
Immortals Fenyx Rising
A demo for Immortals Fenyx Rising is available to play online via the Stadia service. Access to the demo ends on 10/29.
Rest in Peplum
Marge Champion (better known as a model at Disney on many of their animated features) passed away at 101. She was in Jupiter’s Darling (1955, George Sidney).