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Time travel paradoxes form the basis of this broad comedy, as in the case of the ancient poet Lallafa. 1983 Millennium: John Varley: In the far distant future, a team of time travellers snatch the passengers of a crashed aeroplane, leaving behind prefabricated bodies for rescue teams to find. The novel is the basis of the 1989 film. 1983 The ...
Comedy about two hunter-gatherers who after being banished from their tribe encounter Biblical characters and eventually wind up in the city of Sodom. Conan the Barbarian: 1982 Neolithic 32,000 – 10,000 BC Occurs in the pseudo-historical "Hyborian Age", set after the destruction of Atlantis and before the rise of any known ancient civilization.
Arthur and Merlin (2015), Arthur (Kirk Barker) is a banished Celtic warrior, and Merlin (Stefan Butler) a hermit wizard. (direct-to-video) King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017) is a live-action film which follows a young Arthur who is learning how to master the sword Caliburn and fight his way back as rightful heir and king of ancient Britain.
Alchemy , an American TV movie on the art of spiritual transformation; Merlin is played by Robert Guillaume. Princess Gwenevere and the Jewel Riders (1995–96), an American comic fantasy-themed animated children's television series; Merlin, voiced by Bob Kaliban, is an ancient wizard who had discovered Avalon and tamed its magic centuries ago.
Author Monique Wittig's Virgile, Non (published in English as Across the Acheron, 1985) is a lesbian–feminist parody of the Divine Comedy set in the utopia/dystopia of second-wave feminism. [ 30 ] Mark E. Rogers used the structure of Dante's hell in his 1998 comedic novel Samurai Cat Goes to Hell (the last in the Samurai Cat series), and ...
Tales of an Ancient Empire (2010) [3] Conan the Barbarian (2011) [4] Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 (2011) In the Name of the King 2: Two Worlds (2011) Ronal the Barbarian (2011, animated) Your Highness (2011) The Scorpion King 3: Battle for Redemption (2012) The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) Epic (2013)
The Alexandrine grammarians, and most likely Aristophanes of Byzantium in particular, seem to have been the first to divide Greek comedy into what became the canonical three periods: [3] Old Comedy (ἀρχαία archaía), Middle Comedy (μέση mésē) and New Comedy (νέα néa). These divisions appear to be largely arbitrary, and ancient ...
Old Comedy is the first period of the ancient Greek comedy, according to the canonical division by the Alexandrian grammarians. [1] The most important Old Comic playwright is Aristophanes – whose works, with their daring political commentary and abundance of sexual innuendo, de facto define the genre.