Tabla de Contenidos: “…Preliminary Material -- Introduction / Ben-Hur and Gladiator: Manifest Destiny and the Contradictions of American Empire / Muscles and Morals: Spartacus, Ancient Hero of Modern Times / With Your Shield or On It: The Gender of Heroism in Zack Snyder’s 300 and Rudoph Maté’s The 300 Spartans / “This is Sparta!”…”