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Oresteia: Agamemnon. Libation-Bearers. Eumenides
Av Aeschylus, Alan H. Sommerstein m. fl.
Inbunden, 2009
373 kr
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The tragic cycle of justice.Aeschylus (ca. 525–456 BC), the dramatist who made Athenian tragedy one of the world’s great art forms, witnessed the establishment of democracy at Athens, fought against the Persians at Marathon and probably also at Salamis, and had one of his productions sponsored by …
Aeschylean Tragedy
Häftad, 2010
723 kr
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Aeschylus was the dramatist who made Athenian tragedy one of the world's great art-forms. In this completely revised and updated edition of his book Alan H. Sommerstein, analysing the seven extant plays of the Aeschylean corpus (one of them probably in fact the work of another author) and utilising …
Persians. Seven against Thebes. Suppliants. Prometheus Bound
Av Aeschylus, Alan H. Sommerstein
Inbunden, 2009
373 kr
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Four unconnected but unforgettable plays from ancient Athens’ first great tragedian.Aeschylus (ca. 525–456 BC), the dramatist who made Athenian tragedy one of the world’s great art forms, witnessed the establishment of democracy at Athens, fought against the Persians at Marathon and probably also …
Talking about Laughter
and Other Studies in Greek Comedy
E-bok, 2009
1455 kr
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This book brings together fourteen studies by Alan Sommerstein on Aristophanes and his fellow comic dramatists, some of which have not previously appeared in print. The studies cover almost all the major topics of Sommerstein''s work - the nature and functions of comedy in Aristophanes'' time, its …
Tangled Ways of Zeus
And Other Studies In and Around Greek Tragedy
E-bok, 2010
1919 kr
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The Tangled Ways of Zeus is a collection of studies written over the last twenty years by the distinguished classicist Alan Sommerstein about various aspects of ancient Greek tragedy (and, in some cases, other related genres). It complements his recent collection of studies in Greek comedy, Talking …
Tangled Ways of Zeus
And Other Studies In and Around Greek Tragedy
E-bok, 2010
1919 kr
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The Tangled Ways of Zeus is a collection of studies written over the last twenty years by the distinguished classicist Alan Sommerstein about various aspects of ancient Greek tragedy (and, in some cases, other related genres). It complements his recent collection of studies in Greek comedy, Talking …
Talking about Laughter
and Other Studies in Greek Comedy
Inbunden, 2009
2234 kr
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This book brings together fourteen studies by Alan Sommerstein on Aristophanes and his fellow comic dramatists, some of which have not previously appeared in print. The studies cover almost all the major topics of Sommerstein's work - the nature and functions of comedy in Aristophanes' time, its …
The Tangled Ways of Zeus
And Other Studies In and Around Greek Tragedy
Inbunden, 2010
3390 kr
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The Tangled Ways of Zeus is a collection of studies written over the last twenty years by the distinguished classicist Alan Sommerstein about various aspects of ancient Greek tragedy (and, in some cases, other related genres). It complements his recent collection of studies in Greek comedy, Talking …
Menander in Contexts
Häftad, 2019
812 kr
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The comedies of the Athenian dramatist Menander (c. 342-291 BC) and his contemporaries were the ultimate source of a Western tradition of light drama that has continued to the present day. Yet for over a millennium, Menander’s own plays were thought to have been completely lost. Thanks to a long …
Greek Drama and Dramatists
Inbunden, 2002
2890 kr
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The history of European drama began at the festivals of Dionysus in ancient Athens, where tragedy, satyr-drama and comedy were performed. Understanding this background is vital for students of classical, literary and theatrical subjects, and Alan H. Sommerstein's accessible study is the ideal …
Greek Drama and Dramatists
Häftad, 2002
745 kr
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The history of European drama began at the festivals of Dionysus in ancient Athens, where tragedy, satyr-drama and comedy were performed. Understanding this background is vital for students of classical, literary and theatrical subjects, and Alan H. Sommerstein's accessible study is the ideal …
Menander in Contexts
Inbunden, 2013
2890 kr
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The comedies of the Athenian dramatist Menander (c. 342-291 BC) and his contemporaries were the ultimate source of a Western tradition of light drama that has continued to the present day. Yet for over a millennium, Menander’s own plays were thought to have been completely lost. Thanks to a long …
Aeschylus: Eumenides
Av Aeschylus, Alan H. Sommerstein
Häftad, 1989
617 kr
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Professor Sommerstein here presents a freshly constituted text, with introduction and commentary, of Eumenides, the climactic play of the only surviving complete Greek tragic trilogy, the Oresteia of Aeschylus. Eumenides is of all Athenian tragic dramas the one most consciously designed to be …
Menander: Samia (The Woman from Samos)
Av Menander, Alan H. Sommerstein
Inbunden, 2014
1497 kr
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For eight centuries after his death Menander was the third most popular poet in the Greek-speaking world, and his plays, through Roman imitations and adaptations, engendered a tradition of European light drama that extends to our own day. But it is only since 1844 that some of the actual texts of …
Menander: Samia (The Woman from Samos)
Av Menander, Alan H. Sommerstein
Häftad, 2014
579 kr
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For eight centuries after his death Menander was the third most popular poet in the Greek-speaking world, and his plays, through Roman imitations and adaptations, engendered a tradition of European light drama that extends to our own day. But it is only since 1844 that some of the actual texts of …
Fragments
Av Aeschylus, Alan H. Sommerstein
Inbunden, 2009
373 kr
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Tantalizing quotations from lost tragedies.Aeschylus (ca. 525–456 BC), the dramatist who made Athenian tragedy one of the world’s great art forms, witnessed the establishment of democracy at Athens, fought against the Persians at Marathon and probably also at Salamis, and had one of his productions …
Aristophanes: Acharnians
Av Sommerstein, Alan H. Sommerstein
Häftad, 1980
585 kr
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The earliest comic drama to survive, Acharnians is a highly committed play, its message being that Athens war with the Peloponnesians can and should be ended, and that peace will mean the restoration of normal life after six years' separation of the country people from their land. First published …
Aristophanes: Knights
Av Aristophanes, Alan H. Sommerstein
Häftad, 1981
585 kr
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Knights was the first play to be produced by Aristophanes on his own behalf. In it, he launched a violent attack on Cleon, the leading politician of the day, on the whole style of leadership that he represented and on a system which seemed to guarantee that a bad leader could be displaced by a …
Aristophanes: Clouds
Av Sommerstein, Alan H. Sommerstein
Häftad, 1991
632 kr
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Clouds is a partly revised version of a play that failed when it was first produced. It has always fascinated (and usually shocked) students of philosophy because of its portrayal of Socrates as an atheist and a teacher of dishonest rhetoric, justly punished by the agents of the gods whom he …
Aristophanes: Wasps
Av Aristophanes, Alan H. Sommerstein
Häftad, 1983
632 kr
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Wasps was first produced at the Lenaea festival of 422 BC. The play is at once a political satire and also, like Clouds and the lost Banqueters, a comedy on the theme of the conflict of generations. The play follows the efforts of a mischievous and mercurial old man to escape the control of a stern …
Aristophanes: Birds
Av Aristophanes, Alan H. Sommerstein
Häftad, 1987
667 kr
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Birds was produced at the City Dionysia in the spring of 414 BC. It differs from all the other fifth-century plays of Aristophanes that survive in having no strong and obvious connection with a topical question of public interest, whether political (like Acharnians, Knights, Wasps, Peace and …
Aristophanes: Lysistrata
Av Sommerstein, Alan H. Sommerstein
Häftad, 1998
585 kr
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Lysistrata is the third and last of Aristophanes' peace plays. It is a dream of peace, of how the women could help to achieve an honourable settlement, conceived when Athens was going through its blackest, most desperate crisis since the Persian War. Though in modern times this is perhaps the most …
Aristophanes: Thesmophoriazusae
Av Sommerstein, Alan H. Sommerstein
Häftad, 1994
632 kr
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Thesmophoriazusae is perhaps the funniest of all Aristophanes’ comedies, in which gender inversion and transvestism run riot as the tragic dramatist Euripides is made to take part in a hilarious spoof on some of his own favourite plot lines, with his own life at stake as well as that of his loyal …
Aristophanes: Frogs
Av Sommerstein, Alan H. Sommerstein
Inbunden, 1997
672 kr
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Aristophanes’ Frogs was produced in 405 BC, shortly after the deaths of the two great veteran Athenian tragic dramatists, Euripides and Sophocles. It was restaged a year later, a few weeks before starving Athens at last accepted defeat in the long Peloponnesian War. Dionysus, the god of drama, wine …
Aristophanes: Ecclesiazusae
Av Aristophanes, Alan H. Sommerstein
Häftad, 1998
585 kr
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Ecclesiazusae, probably produced in 391 BC, is at once a typically Aristophanic fantasy of gender inversion, obscenity and farce, the earliest surviving work in the western Utopian tradition, and the source of a blueprint for a communist society on which Plato may well have drawn in his Republic. …
Aristophanes: Wealth
Av Aristophanes, Alan H. Sommerstein
Häftad, 2001
667 kr
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This volume is the first edition with commentary since 1907 of Aristophanes' last surviving play, in which, as so often before, an audacious and imaginative hero finds a miraculous remedy for the all-too-real ills of the contemporary world in this case the concentration of wealth in the hands of …
Aristophanes: Indexes to the plays
Av Aristophanes, Alan H. Sommerstein
Inbunden, 2002
2080 kr
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This volume completes the twelve-volume series The Comedies of Aristophanes , begun in 1980, and is comprised of comprehensive indexes to the preceding eleven volumes. The book is divided into three parts: I Texts and Passages, II Persons, and III General.
Aristophanes: Indexes to the plays
Av Aristophanes, Alan H. Sommerstein
Häftad, 2002
585 kr
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This volume completes the twelve-volume series The Comedies of Aristophanes , begun in 1980, and is comprised of comprehensive indexes to the preceding eleven volumes. The book is divided into three parts: I Texts and Passages, II Persons, and III General.
Aristophanes: Peace
Av Sommerstein, Alan H. Sommerstein
Häftad, 2005
585 kr
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Produced in 421 B.C., Peace is, in one respect, unique among Aristophanes’ plays. The typical Aristophanic plot takes its start from something that is wrong with the current state of Athenian life and which, while it may be capable in principle of being corrected, stands next to no chance of ever …
Aeschylus: Suppliants
Inbunden, 2019
1376 kr
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Many of the themes of Aeschylus' Suppliants - the treatment of refugees, forced marriage, ethnic and cultural clashes, decisions on war and peace, political deception - resonate strongly in the world of today. The play was, however, for many years neglected in comparison to Aeschylus' other works, …
