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Aristophanes Thesmophoriazusae
Av S. Douglas Olson, Colin Austin
E-bok, 2004
1218 kr
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Thesmophoriazusae was performed in Athens in 411 BCE, most likely at the City Dionysia, and is among the most brilliant of Aristophanes'' eleven surviving comedies. It is the story of the crucial moment in a quarrelbetween the tragic playwright Euripides and Athens'' women, who accuse him of …
Aristophanes: Peace
Greek text with Introduction and Commentary
Av Aristophanes, S. Douglas Olson
Inbunden, 1998
6447 kr
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Aristophanes' Peace was performed at the City Dionysia in Athens in 421 BC as a decade-long war with Sparta seemed finally to be drawing to an end, and is one of only eleven extant plays by the greatest Old Comic poet. Olson's edition of the play, which replaces Platnauer's of 1969, is based on a …
Aristophanes Acharnians
Av Aristophanes, S. Douglas Olson
Inbunden, 2002
4813 kr
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Aristophanes' Acharnians was performed at the Lenaia festival in Athens in 425 BCE. The play is the story of an old peasant farmer, Dikaiopolis, who has grown so disgusted with the Peloponnesian War and the patent self-serving of the city's leading politicians (abetted by the stupidity of his …
Archestratos of Gela: Greek Culture and Cuisine in the Fourth Century BC
Av Archestratos of Gela, S. Douglas Olson
Inbunden, 2000
5284 kr
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Archestratos of Gela was the author of a mock-epic poem, most likely entitled the Hedupatheia or Life of Luxury, that presented itself as a gastronomic tour of the Mediterranean world. Written sometime in the first two-thirds of the fourth century BCE, the Hedupatheia was widely read in the late …
Aristophanes: Peace
Av Aristophanes, S. Douglas Olson
Häftad, 2003
1872 kr
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Aristophanes' Peace was performed at the City Dionysia in Athens in 421 BC as a decade-long war with Sparta seemed finally to be drawing to an end, and is one of only eleven extant plays by the greatest Old Comic poet. Olson's edition of the play, which replaces Platnauer's of 1969, is based on a …
Aristophanes Thesmophoriazusae
Av Colin Austin, S. Douglas Olson
Inbunden, 2004
4867 kr
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Thesmophoriazusae was performed in Athens in 411 BCE, most likely at the City Dionysia, and is among the most brilliant of Aristophanes' eleven surviving comedies. It is the story of the crucial moment in a quarrelbetween the tragic playwright Euripides and Athens' women, who accuse him of …
Aristophanes Acharnians
Av Aristophanes, S. Douglas Olson
Häftad, 2004
2231 kr
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Aristophanes' Acharnians was performed at the Lenaia festival in Athens in 425 BCE. The play is the story of an old peasant farmer, Dikaiopolis, who has grown so disgusted with the Peloponnesian War and the patent self-serving of the city's leading politicians (abetted by the stupidity of his …
Broken Laughter
Select Fragments of Greek Comedy
Inbunden, 2007
4918 kr
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A collection of over 200 of the most interesting and important fragments of Greek comedy, accompanied by a commentary; an extensive introduction discussing the history of comic genre; a series of appendixes on the individual poets, the inscriptional evidence, and the like; and a complete …
Aristophanes Thesmophoriazusae
Av Colin Austin, S. Douglas Olson
Häftad, 2008
1558 kr
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Thesmophoriazusae was performed in Athens in 411 BCE, most likely at the City Dionysia, and is among the most brilliant of Aristophanes' eleven surviving comedies. It is the story of the crucial moment in a quarrel between the tragic playwright Euripides and Athens' women, who accuse him of …
Aristophanes: Wasps
Av OLSON BILES, Zachary P. Biles m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
4391 kr
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Aristophanes' Wasps was produced in Athens in 422 BCE. Like other Aristophanic comedies, it is a satire on Athenian society and democratic institutions, in this case focusing on the legal system and its supposed manipulation for personal ends by corrupt democratic leaders.This critical edition of …
Aristophanes' Clouds
A Commentary
Häftad, 2021
443 kr
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This is the first substantial commentary on Clouds since Dover’s 1968 edition. Intended for intermediate Greek students at undergraduate and graduate levels, the commentary pays careful attention to the basic characteristics of ancient Greek syntax, as well as to how Greek words are formed and can …
Prometheus Bound
A Student Commentary
Häftad, 2027
429 kr
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Prometheus Bound is a play passed down among the tragedies of Aeschylus but apparently written by a different author sometime in the second half of the fifth century BCE. This textbook includes a fresh Greek text and an extensive commentary intended for intermediate students of classical Greek, but …
Aristophanes' Clouds
A Commentary
Inbunden, 2021
1222 kr
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This is the first substantial commentary on Clouds since Dover’s 1968 edition. Intended for intermediate Greek students at undergraduate and graduate levels, the commentary pays careful attention to the basic characteristics of ancient Greek syntax, as well as to how Greek words are formed and can …
Prometheus Bound
A Student Commentary
Inbunden, 2027
1219 kr
Kommande
Prometheus Bound is a play passed down among the tragedies of Aeschylus but apparently written by a different author sometime in the second half of the fifth century BCE. This textbook includes a fresh Greek text and an extensive commentary intended for intermediate students of classical Greek, but …
Learned Banqueters, Volume I
Books 1–3.106e
Av Athenaeus, S. Douglas Olson
Inbunden, 2007
373 kr
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Scholars at dinner.In The Learned Banqueters, Athenaeus describes a series of dinner parties at which the guests quote extensively from Greek literature. The work (which dates to the very end of the second century AD) is amusing reading and of extraordinary value as a treasury of quotations from …
Learned Banqueters, Volume II
Books 3.106e–5
Av Athenaeus, S. Douglas Olson
Inbunden, 2007
373 kr
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Scholars at dinner.In The Learned Banqueters, Athenaeus describes a series of dinner parties at which the guests quote extensively from Greek literature. The work (which dates to the very end of the second century AD) is amusing reading and of extraordinary value as a treasury of quotations from …
Learned Banqueters, Volume III
Books 6–7
Av Athenaeus, S. Douglas Olson
Inbunden, 2008
373 kr
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Scholars at dinner.In The Learned Banqueters, Athenaeus describes a series of dinner parties at which the guests quote extensively from Greek literature. The work (which dates to the very end of the second century AD) is amusing reading and of extraordinary value as a treasury of quotations from …
Learned Banqueters, Volume IV
Books 8–10.420e
Av Athenaeus, S. Douglas Olson
Inbunden, 2008
373 kr
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Scholars at dinner.In The Learned Banqueters, Athenaeus describes a series of dinner parties at which the guests quote extensively from Greek literature. The work (which dates to the very end of the second century AD) is amusing reading and of extraordinary value as a treasury of quotations from …
Learned Banqueters, Volume V
Books 10.420e–11
Av Athenaeus, S. Douglas Olson
Inbunden, 2009
373 kr
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Scholars at dinner.In The Learned Banqueters, Athenaeus describes a series of dinner parties at which the guests quote extensively from Greek literature. The work (which dates to the very end of the second century AD) is amusing reading and of extraordinary value as a treasury of quotations from …
Learned Banqueters, Volume VI
Books 12–13.594b
Av Athenaeus, S. Douglas Olson
Inbunden, 2010
373 kr
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Scholars at dinner.In The Learned Banqueters, Athenaeus describes a series of dinner parties at which the guests quote extensively from Greek literature. The work (which dates to the very end of the second century AD) is amusing reading and of extraordinary value as a treasury of quotations from …
Learned Banqueters, Volume VII
Books 13.594b–14
Av Athenaeus, S. Douglas Olson
Inbunden, 2011
373 kr
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Scholars at dinner.In The Learned Banqueters, Athenaeus describes a series of dinner parties at which the guests quote extensively from Greek literature. The work (which dates to the very end of the second century AD) is amusing reading and of extraordinary value as a treasury of quotations from …
Learned Banqueters, Volume VIII
Book 15. Index
Av Athenaeus, S. Douglas Olson
Inbunden, 2012
373 kr
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Scholars at dinner.In The Learned Banqueters, Athenaeus describes a series of dinner parties at which the guests quote extensively from Greek literature. The work (which dates to the very end of the second century AD) is amusing reading and of extraordinary value as a treasury of quotations from …
Matro of Pitane and the Tradition of Epic Parody in the Fourth Century BCE
Text, Translation, and Commentary
Av S. Douglas Olson, Alexander Sens
Häftad, 2003
956 kr
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The fragments of Matro of Pitane (c. 300 BC) offer insights not only into the largely forgotten and obscure late-classical genre of epic parody, but also into 4th-century Athenian history, the role of food and dining in antiquity, and the history of the text of Homer and the reception of the Iliad …
Julius Pollux: The Onomasticon
Text, Translation, and Notes
Inbunden, 2027
3521 kr
Kommande
This is the first translation into a modern language of Julius Pollux' Onomasticon, the most important surviving example of early Greek lexicography. As such, the Onomasticon contains not just long lists of cognate words and synonyms, but enormous quantities of information about classical …
Aristophanes: Knights
Av Zachary P. Biles, S. Douglas Olson m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
2828 kr
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Aristophanes' Knights was a sensation in its time, famous for its assault on the Athenian politician and demagogue Cleon in the first comic drama devoted to a sustained, open satire of an individual political figure. It is also the first play Aristophanes produced in his own name, and the one that …
Homer's Iliad
Av Martha Krieter-Spiro, S. Douglas Olson
E-bok, 2015
2280 kr
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This commentary on the 3rd book of the Iliad concentrates on the interpretation of the ceremonial single combat between the rivals for Helen, Paris and Menelaus, a scene that reflects the origins of the Trojan War. The famous parade before the walls presents Agamemnon, Odysseus and Ajax, and …
Homer's Iliad
Av Martha Krieter-Spiro, S. Douglas Olson
E-bok, 2015
2280 kr
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This commentary on the 3rd book of the Iliad concentrates on the interpretation of the ceremonial single combat between the rivals for Helen, Paris and Menelaus, a scene that reflects the origins of the Trojan War. The famous parade before the walls presents Agamemnon, Odysseus and Ajax, and …
