Definition: Neo-pepla is a transmedia genre that leverages ancient history (most commonly but not limited to ancient Greece and Rome), through appropriations, recreations, interpretations, incorporations, adaptations, and other textual play, to comment on past and/or contemporary matters, leverage a distinctive aesthetic for artistic means, or to tell a story.
Information on my book, The New Peplum: Essays on Sword and Sandal Films and Television Programs since the 1990s, can be found here:
A complete index of all the texts I’ve written about neo-peplum, peplum, sword and sandal, etc. genre can be found here: