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Epic of the Earth
Reading Homer’s "Iliad" in the Fight for a Dying World
Av Edith Hall
Inbunden, 2025
266 kr
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An urgent study of Homer’s Iliad, exposing the beginnings of the ecological disaster we now face and facilitating our understanding of its history “Exhilarating.”—Emma Greensmith, Times Literary Supplement The roots of today’s environmental catastrophe run deep into humanity’s past. Through this …
Sophocles
A Very Short Introduction
Av Edith Hall
Häftad, 2025
127 kr
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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, InspiringThis Very Short Introduction introduces the life, work, and influence of one of the greatest dramatists of all time, Sophocles the Athenian. Placing his plays within their historical context, and explaining the conventions of ancient Greek tragic …
Antigone; Oedipus the King; Electra
Av Sophocles, Edith Hall
Häftad, 2008
118 kr
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Love and loyalty, hatred and revenge, fear, deprivation, and political ambition: these are the motives which thrust the characters portrayed in these three Sophoclean masterpieces on to their collision course with catastrophe.Recognized in his own day as perhaps the greatest of the Greek …
Aristotle’s Way
Ten Ways Ancient Wisdom Can Change Your Life
Av Edith Hall
Häftad, 2019
155 kr
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‘Wonderful and timely … Hugely recommended’ STEPHEN FRYWhat do you and an ancient philosopher have in common? It turns out much more than you might think…Aristotle was an extraordinary thinker yet he was preoccupied by an ordinary question: how to be happy. In this handbook to his timeless …
Ancient Greeks
Ten Ways They Shaped the Modern World
Av Edith Hall
Häftad, 2016
160 kr
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They gave us democracy, philosophy, poetry, rational science, the joke. They built the Parthenon and the Library of Alexandria. They wrote the timeless myths of Odysseus and Oedipus, and the histories of Leonidas’s three hundred Spartans and Alexander the Great. But who were the ancient Greeks? And …
Greek and Roman Actors
Aspects of an Ancient Profession
Häftad, 2007
1066 kr
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This collection of twenty essays examines the art, profession and idea of the actor in Greek and Roman antiquity, and has been commissioned and arranged to cast as much interdisciplinary and transhistorical light as possible on these elusive but fascinating ancient professionals. It covers a …
Aristotle's Way: How Ancient Wisdom Can Change Your Life
Av Edith Hall
Häftad, 2020
255 kr
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Facing Down the Furies
Suicide, the Ancient Greeks, and Me
Av Edith Hall
Häftad, 2025
171 kr
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An award-winning classicist turns to Greek tragedies for the wisdom to understand the damage caused by suicide and help those who are contemplating suicide themselves “Remarkable, brave and compassionate.”—Rowan Williams, New Statesman In Sophocles’ tragedy Oedipus the Tyrant, a messenger arrives …
Aeschylus: Agamemnon
Av Edith Hall
Häftad, 2025
839 kr
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The first revenge drama, the first great female role, the first tragedy set on the cusp between public space and private household, the first part of the only surviving tragic trilogy—the foundational status of Aeschylus’ monumental Agamemnon cannot be over-estimated. Agamemnon’s entry on a …
Medea
A Life
Av Edith Hall
Inbunden, 2026
275 kr
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The story of Medea, a maligned and misunderstood woman of Greek mythology, from one of Britain’s foremost classicistsMothers who kill their children are universally abhorred but perennially fascinating. In this book, the award-winning scholar Edith Hall explores the possibility that Medea, …
Introducing the Ancient Greeks
From Bronze Age Seafarers to Navigators of the Western Mind
Av Edith Hall
Häftad, 2015
149 kr
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The ancient Greeks invented democracy, theater, rational science, and philosophy. They built the Parthenon and the Library of Alexandria. Yet this accomplished people never formed a single unified social or political identity. In Introducing the Ancient Greeks, acclaimed classics scholar Edith Hall …
Inventing the Barbarian
Greek Self-Definition through Tragedy
Av Edith Hall
Häftad, 1991
2041 kr
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Incest, polygamy, murder, sacrilege, impalement, castration, female power, and despotism: these are some of the images by which the Greek tragedians defined the non-Greek, `barbarian' world. This book explains for the first time the reasons behind their singular fascination with barbarians. It sets …
Aristotle's Way
How Ancient Wisdom Can Change Your Life
Av Edith Hall
Ljudbok, 2020
162 kr
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Brought to you by Penguin. ‘Wonderful and timely … Hugely recommended’ STEPHEN FRY What do you and an ancient philosopher have in common? It turns out much more than you might think… Aristotle was an extraordinary thinker, perhaps the greatest in history. Yet he was preoccupied by an ordinary …
Women Classical Scholars
Unsealing the Fountain from the Renaissance to Jacqueline de Romilly
E-bok, 2016
759 kr
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Women Classical Scholars: Unsealing the Fountain from the Renaissance to Jacqueline de Romilly is the first written history of the pioneering women born between the Renaissance and 1913 who played significant roles in the history of classical scholarship. Facing seemingly insurmountable obstacles …
Women Classical Scholars
Unsealing the Fountain from the Renaissance to Jacqueline de Romilly
E-bok, 2016
759 kr
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Women Classical Scholars: Unsealing the Fountain from the Renaissance to Jacqueline de Romilly is the first written history of the pioneering women born between the Renaissance and 1913 who played significant roles in the history of classical scholarship. Facing seemingly insurmountable obstacles …
Agamemnon in Performance 458 BC to AD 2004
Av Oliver Taplin, Edith Hall m. fl.
E-bok, 2005
2319 kr
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Aeschylus'' Agamemnon , the first play in the Oresteia trilogy, is one of the most influential theatrical texts in the global canon. In performance, translation, adaptation, along with sung and danced interpretations, it has been familiar in the Greek world and the Roman empire, and from the …
Theatrical Cast of Athens
Interactions between Ancient Greek Drama and Society
Av Edith Hall
E-bok, 2006
1815 kr
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In this pioneering study Edith Hall explores the numerous different ways in which we can understand the relationship between the real, social world in which the Athenians lived and the theatrical roles that they invented. In twelve studies of role types and the theatrical conventions that …
Greek Tragedy and the British Theatre 1660-1914
Av Fiona Macintosh, Edith Hall
E-bok, 2005
1392 kr
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This lavishly illustrated book offers the first full, interdisciplinary investigation of the historical evidence for the presence of ancient Greek tragedy in the post-Restoration British theatre, where it reached a much wider audience - including women - than had access to the original texts. …
New Directions in Ancient Pantomime
E-bok, 2008
1511 kr
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This is the first comprehensive and illustrated study of the most important form of theatre in the entire Roman Empire - pantomime, the ancient equivalent of ballet dancing. Performed for more than five centuries in hundreds of theatres from Portugal in the West to the Euphrates, from Gaul to North …
Dionysus Since 69
Greek Tragedy at the Dawn of the Third Millennium
Av Fiona Macintosh And Amanda Wrigley Edited By Edith Hall, Amanda Wrigley m. fl.
E-bok, 2004
2624 kr
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Greek tragedy is currently being performed more frequently than at any time since classical antiquity. This book is the first to address the fundamental question, why has there been so much Greek tragedy in the theatres, opera houses and cinemas of the last three decades? A detailed chronological …
Cultural Responses to the Persian Wars
Antiquity to the Third Millennium
Av P. J. Rhodes, Edith Hall m. fl.
E-bok, 2007
1898 kr
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Cultural Responses to the Persian Wars addresses the huge impact on subsequent culture made by the wars fought between ancient Persia and Greece in the early fifth century BC. It brings together sixteen interdisciplinary essays, mostly by classical scholars, on individual trends within the …
Antigone; Oedipus the King; Electra
Av Sophocles, Edith Hall
E-bok, 2008
82 kr
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Love and loyalty, hatred and revenge, fear, deprivation, and political ambition: these are the motives which thrust the characters portrayed in these three Sophoclean masterpieces on to their collision course with catastrophe.Recognized in his own day as perhaps the greatest of the Greek …
Greek Tragedy
Suffering under the Sun
Av Edith Hall
E-bok, 2010
1334 kr
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This is an invaluable introduction to ancient Greek tragedy which discusses every surviving play in detail and provides all the background information necessary for understanding the context and content of the plays. Edith Hall argues that the essential feature of the genre is that it always …
Antigone; Oedipus the King; Electra
Av Sophocles, Edith Hall
E-bok, 1994
30 kr
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Love and loyalty, hatred and revenge, fear, deprivation, and political ambition: these are the motives which thrust the characters portrayed in these three Sophoclean masterpieces on to their collision course with catastrophe.Recognized in his own day as perhaps the greatest of the Greek …
Agamemnon in Performance 458 BC to AD 2004
Av Oliver Taplin, Edith Hall m. fl.
E-bok, 2005
2319 kr
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Aeschylus'' Agamemnon , the first play in the Oresteia trilogy, is one of the most influential theatrical texts in the global canon. In performance, translation, adaptation, along with sung and danced interpretations, it has been familiar in the Greek world and the Roman empire, and from the …
Ancient Slavery and Abolition
From Hobbes to Hollywood
Av Justine McConnell, Richard Alston m. fl.
E-bok, 2011
1834 kr
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A pathbreaking study of the role played by ancient Greek and Roman sources and voices in the struggle to abolish transatlantic slavery and in representations of that struggle in the twentieth century. Thirteen essays by an interdisciplinary team of specialists from three continents, led by the …
Sophocles
A Very Short Introduction
Av Edith Hall
E-bok, 2025
106 kr
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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring This Very Short Introduction introduces the life, work, and influence of one of the greatest dramatists of all time, Sophocles the Athenian. Placing his plays within their historical context, and explaining the conventions of ancient Greek …
Time, Tense, and Genre in Ancient Greek Literature
Av Connie Bloomfield-Gadêlha, Edith Hall
Inbunden, 2025
1959 kr
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The 24 essays collected in this book address the complex interactions between concepts of time, grammatical tense, and type of genre of prose or poetry in ancient Greek literature. The chronological scope stretches across nearly a millennium from archaic epic to the Second Sophistic, from the …
Adventures with Iphigenia in Tauris
A Cultural History of Euripides' Black Sea Tragedy
Av Edith Hall
Inbunden, 2013
2062 kr
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Human sacrifice, a spirited heroine, a quest ending in a hairsbreadth escape, the touching reunion of long-lost siblings, and exquisite poetry--these features have historically made Euripides' Iphigenia in Tauris one of the most influential of Greek tragedies. Yet, despite its influence and …
New Light on Tony Harrison
Av Edith Hall
Inbunden, 2019
899 kr
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New Light on Tony Harrison was developed from a conference marking the 80th birthday of the prizewinning British poet Tony Harrison. Contributors include practising poets, playwrights, specialists in Classics, Theatre, Translation Studies, English and World Literature, and professionals in media …
