These films attempted to emulate the big-budget Hollywood historical epics of the time, such as Ben-Hur, Cleopatra, Quo Vadis, The Robe, Spartacus, Samson and Delilah and The Ten Commandments. Sword-and-sandal, also known as peplum ( pepla plural), is a subgenre of largely Italian-made historical, mythological, or Biblical epics mostly set in the Greco-Roman or medieval period. This poster for Goliath and the Barbarians illustrates many people's expectations from films of this genre Not to be confused with Sword and sorcery, a subgenre of fantasy fiction.
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