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Kirk Douglas and Silvana Mangano in a pause during the shootings of Ulysses (1954) by Mario Camerini. Sword-and-sandal films are a specific class of Italian adventure films that have subjects set in Biblical or classical antiquity, often with plots based more or less loosely on Greco-Roman history or the other contemporary cultures of the time, such as the Egyptians, Assyrians, and Etruscans ...
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L. Sprague de Camp's Swords and Sorcery, the first sword and sorcery anthology, was published by Pyramid Books in December 1963. Karl Edward Wagner's Kane novels, beginning with Darkness Weaves (1970), credited with reinvigorating the genre. [66] Robert Lynn Asprin's Thieves' World, a series of shared world anthologies first created in 1978.
The peplum encompasses films of varying ages and periods (not just the Roman era per se), so long as the characters use swords and sandals (Romans, pirates, Biblical characters et al.)(Frank Verzyl) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.23.74.32 17:44, 26 October 2009 (UTC) Well, well, well, Frank Verzyl is back.
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