ARTICLE: The Hunger Games' Roots in The Classics

[Frank W. Baker]

Of the new Hunger Games film, Barry Strauss, a professor of history and classics writes "we shouldn’t ignore the deeper themes of the tale, which are not only classic but classical, reaching back to Greece and Rome and the very foundations of Western culture."

Katniss, played by Ms. Lawrence, is “an updated Theseus,” according to the books’ author, Suzanne Collins.