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72 produkter
The Invention of Prose
Häftad, 2002
429 kr
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This is the first general study of the earliest writers of Greek prose for students and teachers alike. Looking at history, medicine, science, philosophy and rhetoric, it asks why and how these new genres of writing came about in the fifth and fourth centuries BCE It is thus a study of the cultural …
Preposterous Poetics
The Politics and Aesthetics of Form in Late Antiquity
Inbunden, 2020
1444 kr
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How does literary form change as Christianity and rabbinic Judaism take shape? What is the impact of literary tradition and the new pressures of religious thinking? Tracing a journey over the first millennium that includes works in Latin, Greek, Hebrew and Aramaic, this book changes our …
The Christian Invention of Time
Temporality and the Literature of Late Antiquity
Inbunden, 2022
716 kr
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Time is integral to human culture. Over the last two centuries people's relationship with time has been transformed through industrialisation, trade and technology. But the first such life-changing transformation - under Christianity's influence - happened in late antiquity. It was then that time …
Greek Tragedy
Av Aeschylus, Euripides m. fl.
Häftad, 2004
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
269 kr
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Agememnon is the first part of the Aeschylus's Orestian trilogy in which the leader of the Greek army returns from the Trojan war to be murdered by his treacherous wife Clytemnestra. In Sophocles' Oedipus Rex the king sets out to uncover the cause of the plague that has struck his city, only to …
Victorian Engagements with the Bible and Antiquity
The Shock of the Old
Av Simon Goldhill, Ruth Jackson Ravenscroft
Inbunden, 2023
2460 kr
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The nineteenth century was a period in which ideas of history and time were challenged as never before. This is the first book to explore how the study of classical antiquity and the study of the Bible together formed an image of the past which became central to Victorian self-understanding. These …
The Poet's Voice
Essays on Poetics and Greek Literature
Häftad, 2024
448 kr
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How are poetry and the figure of the poet represented, discussed, contested within the poetry of ancient Greece? From what position does a poet speak? With what authority? With what debts to the past? With what involvement in the present? Through a series of interrelated essays on Homer, lyric …
What Is a Jewish Classicist?
Essays on the Personal Voice and Disciplinary Politics
Av Simon Goldhill, Thomas Harrison
Häftad, 2022
292 kr
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In recent years, there has been no issue that has convulsed academia and its role in society more stridently than the personal politics of its institutions: who has access to education? How does who you are change what you study and how you engage with it? How does scholarship reflect the politics …
Sophocles and the Language of Tragedy
Häftad, 2015
818 kr
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Written by one of the best-known interpreters of classical literature today, Sophocles and the Language of Tragedy presents a revolutionary take on the work of this great classical playwright and on how our understanding of tragedy has been shaped by our literary past. Simon Goldhill sheds new …
Visualizing the Tragic
Drama, Myth, and Ritual in Greek Art and Literature
Av Chris Kraus, Simon Goldhill m. fl.
Inbunden, 2007
3443 kr
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Athenian tragedy of the fifth century BCE became an international and a canonical genre with remarkable rapidity. It is, therefore, a remarkable test case through which to explore how a genre becomes privileged and what the cultural effects of its continuing appropriation are. In this collection of …
Sophocles and the Language of Tragedy
Inbunden, 2012
1025 kr
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Written by one of the best-known interpreters of classical literature today, Sophocles and the Language of Tragedy presents a revolutionary take on the work of this great classical playwright and on how our understanding of tragedy has been shaped by our literary past. Simon Goldhill sheds new …
Sophocles and the Language of Tragedy
E-bok, 2011
506 kr
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Written by one of the best-known interpreters of classical literature today, Sophocles and the Language of Tragedy presents a revolutionary take on the work of this great classical playwright and on how our understanding of tragedy has been shaped by our literary past. Simon Goldhill sheds new …
Sophocles and the Language of Tragedy
E-bok, 2012
506 kr
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Written by one of the best-known interpreters of classical literature today, Sophocles and the Language of Tragedy presents a revolutionary take on the work of this great classical playwright and on how our understanding of tragedy has been shaped by our literary past. Simon Goldhill sheds new …
How to Stage Greek Tragedy Today
Häftad, 2007
233 kr
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From the stages of Broadway and London to university campuses, Paris, and the bourgeoning theaters of Africa, Greek tragedy remains constantly in production. This global revival, in addition to delighting audiences, has highlighted both the promise and the pitfalls of staging ancient masterpieces …
Freud's Couch, Scott's Buttocks, Brontë's Grave
Inbunden, 2011
227 kr
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The Victorian era was the high point of literary tourism. Writers such as Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Sir Walter Scott became celebrities, and readers trekked far and wide for a glimpse of the places where their heroes wrote and thought, walked and talked. Even Shakespeare was roped in, as …
Very Queer Family Indeed
Sex, Religion, and the Bensons in Victorian Britain
Inbunden, 2016
340 kr
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"We can begin with a kiss, though this will not turn out to be a love story, at least not a love story of anything like the usual kind." So begins A Very Queer Family Indeed, which introduces us to the extraordinary Benson family. Edward White Benson became Archbishop of Canterbury at the height of …
Very Queer Family Indeed
Sex, Religion, and the Bensons in Victorian Britain
Häftad, 2017
296 kr
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We can begin with a kiss, though this will not turn out to be a love story, at least not a love story of anything like the usual kind. So begins A Very Queer Family Indeed, which introduces us to the extraordinary Benson family. Edward White Benson became Archbishop of Canterbury at the height of …
Being Urban
Community, Conflict and Belonging in the Middle East
Häftad, 2023
647 kr
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In Being Urban, Simon Goldhill and his team of outstanding urbanists explore the meaning of the urban condition, with particular reference to the Middle East. As Goldhill explains in his introduction, ‘What is a good city?’, five questions motivate the book:How can a city be systematically planned …
Being Urban
Community, Conflict and Belonging in the Middle East
Inbunden, 2020
1520 kr
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In Being Urban, Simon Goldhill and his team of outstanding urbanists explore the meaning of the urban condition, with particular reference to the Middle East. As Goldhill explains in his introduction, ‘What is a good city?’, five questions motivate the book:How can a city be systematically planned …
Who Needs Greek?
Contests in the Cultural History of Hellenism
Häftad, 2002
842 kr
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Does Greek matter? To whom and why? This interdisciplinary study focuses on moments when passionate conflicts about Greek and Greek-ness have erupted in both the modern and the ancient worlds. It looks at the Renaissance, when men were burned at the stake over biblical Greek, at violent Victorian …
Being Greek under Rome
Cultural Identity, the Second Sophistic and the Development of Empire
Häftad, 2007
935 kr
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These especially commissioned essays open up a fascinating perspective on a crucial era of western culture. In the second century CE the Roman empire dominated the Mediterranean, but Greek culture maintained its huge prestige. At the same time, Christianity and Judaism were vying for followers …
Rethinking Revolutions through Ancient Greece
Av Simon Goldhill, Robin Osborne
Häftad, 2010
721 kr
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From the time of the Roman Empire onwards, fifth- and fourth-century Greece have been held to be the period and place in which civilization as the West knows it developed. Classical scholars have sought to justify these claims in detail by describing developments in fields such as democratic …
Foucault's Virginity
Ancient Erotic Fiction and the History of Sexuality
Häftad, 1995
842 kr
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The sexy, witty and often bizarre novels, poetry and dialogues of the first centuries of this era (works such as Longus' Daphnis and Chloe, Achilles Tatius' Leukippe and Cleitophon and Plutarch's Amatorius) were being composed at the same time as fundamental ideas about the body, gender and …
Aeschylus: The Oresteia
Häftad, 2004
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
489 kr
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This is the only general introduction in English to Aeschylus' Oresteia, one of the most important and most influential of all Greek dramas. It discusses the Greek drama festival and the social and political background of Greek tragedy, and offers a reading of this central trilogy. Simon Goldhill …
Language, Sexuality, Narrative
The Oresteia
Häftad, 2004
823 kr
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This book is concerned with the complexity and difficulty of reading the Oresteia. It is not a traditional commentary, although it is often concerned with problems of interpretation and language, nor is it simply what is generally understood by a literary study, although it often discusses the …
Performance Culture and Athenian Democracy
Av Simon Goldhill, Robin Osborne
Häftad, 2004
820 kr
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The specially-commissioned essays in this 1999 book discuss the ways in which performance is central to the practice and ideology of democracy in classical Athens. From theatre to law-court to gymnasium to symposium, performance is a basic part of Athenian society; how do these different areas …
Performance Culture and Athenian Democracy
Av Simon Goldhill, Robin Osborne
Inbunden, 1999
1928 kr
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The specially-commissioned essays in this 1999 book discuss the ways in which performance is central to the practice and ideology of democracy in classical Athens. From theatre to law-court to gymnasium to symposium, performance is a basic part of Athenian society; how do these different areas …
Being Greek under Rome
Cultural Identity, the Second Sophistic and the Development of Empire
Inbunden, 2001
2078 kr
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These especially commissioned essays open up a fascinating perspective on a crucial era of western culture. In the second century CE the Roman empire dominated the Mediterranean, but Greek culture maintained its huge prestige. At the same time, Christianity and Judaism were vying for followers …
Who Needs Greek?
Contests in the Cultural History of Hellenism
Inbunden, 2002
1872 kr
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Does Greek matter? To whom and why? This interdisciplinary study focuses on moments when passionate conflicts about Greek and Greek-ness have erupted in both the modern and the ancient worlds. It looks at the Renaissance, when men were burned at the stake over biblical Greek, at violent Victorian …
Rethinking Revolutions through Ancient Greece
Av Simon Goldhill, Robin Osborne
Inbunden, 2006
1605 kr
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From the time of the Roman Empire onwards, fifth- and fourth-century Greece have been held to be the period and place in which civilization as the West knows it developed. Classical scholars have sought to justify these claims in detail by describing developments in fields such as democratic …
