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* ''Fanfic/KellyTheRomanWarrior', about the daughter of [[RougeAnglesOfSatin "The Ceaser"]], who goes on an epic quest to save her family. However, there are a lot of crossover elements that don't really fit this genre, like the presence of [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings Sauron]] and Franchise/{{Godzilla}} as main villains, a rivalry between Literature/{{Dracula}} and [[Literature/TheTwilightSaga Edward Cullen]], and WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}} as one of the heroes.
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* ''Fanfic/KellyTheRomanWarrior', ''Fanfic/KellyTheRomanWarrior'', about the daughter of [[RougeAnglesOfSatin "The Ceaser"]], who goes on an epic quest to save her family. However, there are a lot of crossover elements that don't really fit this genre, like the presence of [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings Sauron]] and Franchise/{{Godzilla}} as main villains, a rivalry between Literature/{{Dracula}} and [[Literature/TheTwilightSaga Edward Cullen]], and WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}} as one of the heroes.
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* On ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', the in-universe actor Troy [=McClure=] once starred in such a film, titled ''The Erotic Adventures of Hercules', a softcore romp probably inspired by the above-listed ''Film/TheLovesOfHercules''.
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* On ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', the in-universe actor Troy [=McClure=] once starred in such a film, titled ''The Erotic Adventures of Hercules', Hercules'', a softcore romp probably inspired by the above-listed ''Film/TheLovesOfHercules''.
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* ''Fanfic/KellyTheRomanWarrior', about the daughter of [[RougeAnglesOfSatin "The Ceaser"]], who goes on an epic quest to save her family. However, there are a lot of crossover elements that don't really fit this genre, like the presence of [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings Sauron]] and Franchise/{{Godzilla}} as main villains, a rivalry between Literature/{{Dracula}} and [[Literature/TheTwilightSaga Edward Cullen]], and WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}} as one of the heroes.
** ''Kelly the Roman Warrior Part II The Plauges of Gaul'' has Kelly teaming up with UsefulNotes/{{Boudica}} and ComicBook/{{Asterix}} to save Gaul from a plague caused by [[Myth/MesopotamianMythology the Babylonian god Nurgle]]. Again, historical accuracy is [[ArtisticLicenseHistory fully out the window]], but the setting is nominally classical.
* ''Fanfic/KellyTheRomanWarrior', about the daughter of [[RougeAnglesOfSatin "The Ceaser"]], who goes on an epic quest to save her family. However, there are a lot of crossover elements that don't really fit this genre, like the presence of [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings Sauron]] and Franchise/{{Godzilla}} as main villains, a rivalry between Literature/{{Dracula}} and [[Literature/TheTwilightSaga Edward Cullen]], and WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}} as one of the heroes.
** ''Kelly the Roman Warrior Part II The Plauges of Gaul'' has Kelly teaming up with UsefulNotes/{{Boudica}} and ComicBook/{{Asterix}} to save Gaul from a plague caused by [[Myth/MesopotamianMythology the Babylonian god Nurgle]]. Again, historical accuracy is [[ArtisticLicenseHistory fully out the window]], but the setting is nominally classical.
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** ''WesternAnimation/TheMansionsOfTheGods''
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* ''Literature/MarcusDidiusFalco'' -- A series of novels centering on a PrivateDetective during the reign of Vespasian.
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* ''Literature/RomaSubRosa'' -- ''Another'' PrivateDetective series, this time set in the late republic.
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* ''Literature/RomaSubRosa'' -- ''Another'' PrivateDetective Another HistoricalDetectiveFiction series, this time set in the late republic.
Republic.
* ''Literature/{{SPQR}}'' -- Yet another HistoricalDetectiveFiction series, also set in the late Republic.
* ''Literature/{{SPQR}}'' -- Yet another HistoricalDetectiveFiction series, also set in the late Republic.
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* ''Film/BenHur1907''
* ''Film/BenHur1925''
* ''Film/BenHur1959''
* ''Film/BenHur2016''
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** ''Atlas in the Land of the Cyclops'': Despite the MarketBasedTitle, both the original Italian release and its English dub are about Maciste, and there is no character named Atlas. Our hero gets roped into protecting the last descendant of Odysseus from the Cyclops, who is still mad about what happened in ''Literature/TheOdyssey''.
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** ''Atlas in the Land of the Cyclops'': ''Film/AtlasInTheLandOfTheCyclops'': Despite the MarketBasedTitle, both the original Italian release and its English dub are about Maciste, and there is no character named Atlas. Our hero gets roped into protecting the last descendant of Odysseus from the Cyclops, who is still mad about what happened in ''Literature/TheOdyssey''.
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* ''Samson and His Mighty Challenge'' (a 1965 Italian film also starring Hercules, but Samson's in there too). Later {{Gag Dub}}bed as ''Film/HerculesReturns''.
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* ''Samson and His Mighty Challenge'' ''Film/SamsonAndHisMightyChallenge'' (a 1965 Italian film also starring Hercules, but Samson's in there too). Later {{Gag Dub}}bed as ''Film/HerculesReturns''.
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* ''Theatre/{{Coriolanus}}
* Theatre/{{Cymbeline}}
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*Theatre/{{Cymbeline}} ''Theatre/{{Cymbeline}}''
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* ''Film/GoliathAndTheDragon'': Despite the MarketBasedTitle, this movie (known in its native Italy as ''La Vendetta di Ercole'', or ''The Revenge of Hercules'') is actually about Hercules, although even in the dub, he's not supposed to be the same Goliath as in the Bible, but a guy named Emilius that everybody ''calls'' Goliath because he's so big. The change was made so that it could be [[DolledUpInstallment marketed as a sequel]] to the earlier ''Film/GoliathAndTheBarbarians'', but it probably would have been easier to leave him as Hercules.
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** ''Atlas in the Land of the Cyclops'': Despite the MarketBasedTitle, both the original Italian release and its English dub are about Maciste, and there is no character named Atlas. Our hero gets roped into protecting the last descendant of Odysseus from the Cyclops, who is still mad about what happened in ''Literature/TheOdyssey''.
* ''Film/GoliathAndTheDragon'':Despite Again, despite the MarketBasedTitle, this movie (known in its native Italy as ''La Vendetta di Ercole'', or ''The Revenge of Hercules'') is actually about Hercules, although even in the dub, he's not supposed to be the same Goliath as in the Bible, but a guy named Emilius that everybody ''calls'' Goliath because he's so big. The change was made so that it could be [[DolledUpInstallment marketed as a sequel]] to the earlier ''Film/GoliathAndTheBarbarians'', but it probably would have been easier to leave him as Hercules.
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** ''Medusa Against the Son of Hercules'' (''Perseus the Invincible''. Mostly notable for its above-average creature effects by Creator/CarloRambaldi, who would go on to work on ''Film/{{Alien}}'' and ''Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial''.)
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** ''Medusa Against the Son of Hercules'' (''Perseus the Invincible''. Mostly notable for its above-average creature effects by Creator/CarloRambaldi, who would go on to work on ''Film/{{Alien}}'' ''Film/{{Alien}}'', ''Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial'', and ''Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial''.) others)
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** ''Film/ColossusAndTheHeadhunters'' - Another Maciste movie, and another ''Series/MST3K'' entry.
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** ''VideoGame/GloryOfHeraclesIII''
** ''VideoGame/GloryOfHeraclesIV''
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Contrast SwordAndSorcery, on which the name is based (or vice versa). Strictly speaking, the two genres are distinguished by SwordAndSorcery having explicitly fantastic settings, typically a pseudo-Medieval European style ConstructedWorld. Conversely, Sword And Sandal at least pretends to depict real-world historical settings, usually being set during classical antiquity in the Mediterranean regions. There is often some overlap though (as seen in the more ''[[Film/ConanTheBarbarian1982 Conan]]''-inspired sword and sandal films of the '80s), especially when mythology gets involved, but it is usually existing mythology based directly on Hellenic tradition.
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Contrast SwordAndSorcery, on which the name is based (or vice versa). Strictly speaking, the two genres are distinguished by SwordAndSorcery having explicitly fantastic settings, typically a pseudo-Medieval European style ConstructedWorld. Conversely, Sword And Sandal at least pretends to depict real-world historical settings, usually being set during classical antiquity in the Mediterranean regions. There is often some overlap though (as seen in the more ''[[Film/ConanTheBarbarian1982 Conan]]''-inspired sword and sandal films of the '80s), especially when mythology gets involved, but it is usually existing mythology mythology, based directly on Hellenic tradition.
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The subgenre of low-budget Sword And Sandal Italian films of the [[TheFifties late '50s]] and [[TheSixties early '60s]] is known as ''Peplum''. [[note]]The name comes from the ''peplos'', an Ancient Greek garment, a little like a toga, that became a mainstay of these movies' wardrobes.[[/note]] These films in particular tend to have the WorldsStrongestMan as the hero (often Hercules, but not necessarily). Much like the {{spaghetti western}}s that followed them, pepla tend to star non-Italian, Anglophonic leading actors ([[NonActorVehicle if they're actors at all]]) alongside an Italian supporting cast. If an Anglophonic lead could not be secured and they had to cast a fellow Italian, he'd take on an English pseudonym - Sergio Ciani, for example, became Alan Steel. These movies also tended to get [[MarketBasedTitle wildly different titles]] when released outside their home country, to the point where [[DolledUpInstallment entire franchises could be fashioned out of what were originally stand-alone movies]]. The term "peplum" can also refer to a second wave of Italian fantasy films that came out in the 1980s, though not all of these were SwordAndSandal movies, instead being SwordAndSorcery films [[FollowTheLeader overtly modeled]] on ''Film/ConanTheBarbarian1982''. Sandals or not, the '80s pepla tended to be [[DarkerAndEdgier grimmer]], [[BloodierAndGorier more violent]], and [[HotterAndSexier sleazier]] than their relatively family-friendly forebears.
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The subgenre of low-budget Sword And Sandal Italian films of the [[TheFifties late '50s]] and [[TheSixties early '60s]] is known as ''Peplum''. [[note]]The name comes from the ''peplos'', an Ancient Greek garment, a little like a toga, that became a mainstay of these movies' wardrobes.[[/note]] These films in particular tend to have the WorldsStrongestMan as the hero (often Hercules, but not necessarily). Much like the {{spaghetti western}}s that followed them, pepla tend to star non-Italian, Anglophonic leading actors ([[NonActorVehicle if they're actors at all]]) alongside an Italian supporting cast. If an Anglophonic lead could not be secured and they had to cast a fellow Italian, he'd take on an English pseudonym - Sergio Ciani, for example, became Alan Steel. These movies also tended to get [[MarketBasedTitle wildly different titles]] when released outside their home country, to the point where [[DolledUpInstallment entire franchises could be fashioned out of what were originally stand-alone movies]]. The term "peplum" can also refer to a second wave of Italian fantasy films that came out in the 1980s, TheEighties, though not all of these were SwordAndSandal movies, instead being SwordAndSorcery films [[FollowTheLeader overtly modeled]] on ''Film/ConanTheBarbarian1982''. Sandals or not, the '80s pepla tended to be [[DarkerAndEdgier grimmer]], [[BloodierAndGorier more violent]], and [[HotterAndSexier sleazier]] than their relatively family-friendly forebears.
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The subgenre of low-budget Sword And Sandal Italian films of the late '50s and early '60s is known as ''Peplum''. [[note]]The name comes from the ''peplos'', an Ancient Greek garment, a little like a toga, that became a mainstay of these movies' wardrobes.[[/note]] These films in particular tend to have the WorldsStrongestMan as the hero (often Hercules, but not necessarily). Much like the {{spaghetti western}}s that followed them, pepla tend to star non-Italian, Anglophonic leading actors ([[NonActorVehicle if they're actors at all]]) alongside an Italian supporting cast. If an Anglophonic lead could not be secured and they had to cast a fellow Italian, he'd take on an English pseudonym - Sergio Ciani, for example, became Alan Steel. These movies also tended to get [[MarketBasedTitle wildly different titles]] when released outside their home country, to the point where [[DolledUpInstallment entire franchises could be fashioned out of what were originally stand-alone movies]]. The term "peplum" can also refer to a second wave of Italian fantasy films that came out in the 1980s, though not all of these were SwordAndSandal movies, instead being SwordAndSorcery films [[FollowTheLeader overtly modeled]] on ''Film/ConanTheBarbarian1982''. Sandals or not, the '80s pepla tended to be [[DarkerAndEdgier grimmer]], [[BloodierAndGorier more violent]], and [[HotterAndSexier sleazier]] than their relatively family-friendly forebears.
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The subgenre of low-budget Sword And Sandal Italian films of the [[TheFifties late '50s '50s]] and [[TheSixties early '60s '60s]] is known as ''Peplum''. [[note]]The name comes from the ''peplos'', an Ancient Greek garment, a little like a toga, that became a mainstay of these movies' wardrobes.[[/note]] These films in particular tend to have the WorldsStrongestMan as the hero (often Hercules, but not necessarily). Much like the {{spaghetti western}}s that followed them, pepla tend to star non-Italian, Anglophonic leading actors ([[NonActorVehicle if they're actors at all]]) alongside an Italian supporting cast. If an Anglophonic lead could not be secured and they had to cast a fellow Italian, he'd take on an English pseudonym - Sergio Ciani, for example, became Alan Steel. These movies also tended to get [[MarketBasedTitle wildly different titles]] when released outside their home country, to the point where [[DolledUpInstallment entire franchises could be fashioned out of what were originally stand-alone movies]]. The term "peplum" can also refer to a second wave of Italian fantasy films that came out in the 1980s, though not all of these were SwordAndSandal movies, instead being SwordAndSorcery films [[FollowTheLeader overtly modeled]] on ''Film/ConanTheBarbarian1982''. Sandals or not, the '80s pepla tended to be [[DarkerAndEdgier grimmer]], [[BloodierAndGorier more violent]], and [[HotterAndSexier sleazier]] than their relatively family-friendly forebears.
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* Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' with the [[ShowWithinAShow fictional movie]] ''The Voyages of Loinclothiclese'', which seems to be mostly modeled on ''Film/JasonAndTheArgonauts'' with a little bit of ''Film/The7thVoyageOfSinbad'' thrown in for good measure.
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* ''Film/ClashOfTheTitans1981''
* ''Film/ClashOfTheTitans2010''
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''Film/ClashOfTheTitans1981'' - A loose adaptation of the Perseus myth, featuring StopMotion monsters from Creator/RayHarryhausen. Ultimately, it would be the last feature film he would work on.
*''Film/ClashOfTheTitans2010''''Film/ClashOfTheTitans2010'' - A remake of the above
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* ''Film/SinbadAndTheEyeOfTheTiger'' - mainly an ArabianNightsDays movie, but has elements of this genre, with Sinbad traveling to Greece to recruit the alchemist Melanthius for his journey. The movie takes a lot of its fantasy elements from Greek myths as well, most specifically the concept of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperborea Hyperborea]].
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* ''Film/SinbadAndTheEyeOfTheTiger'' - mainly Another Harryhausen movie. Mainly an ArabianNightsDays movie, story, but has with elements of this genre, with Sinbad traveling to a still-Classical Greece to recruit the alchemist Melanthius for his journey. The movie takes a lot of its fantasy elements from Greek myths as well, most specifically the concept of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperborea Hyperborea]].
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* ''ComicBook/{{Alix}}''
* ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'' -- Although it's mostly AffectionateParody of the genre.
* ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'' -- Although it's mostly AffectionateParody of the genre.
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''ComicBook/{{Alix}}'' -- The hero is a Gallo-Roman.
* ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'' --Although it's mostly Mostly AffectionateParody of the genre.genre, focuses on Gaulish heroes in a romanized world with Julius Caesar as regular antagonist/archenemy.
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* ''Literature/BenHur'' -- Includes all the adaptations. Also counts as a Biblical Epic.
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* ''Literature/BenHur'' -- Includes all the adaptations. Also counts as sort of a Biblical Epic.