Ancient & Classical

BL Covers every play, with extensive quotations in English Aristophanes' comedies are famous for their comic characters and earthy humour, but they are also highly topical, with many contemporary political allusions easily missed today. Douglas...

The four late plays of Euripides collected here, in beautifully crafted translations by Cecelia Eaton Luschnig and Paul Woodruff, offer a faithful and dynamic representation of the playwright's mature vision.About the AuthorCecelia Eaton Luschnig is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849022187Author Anon.Format PaperbackPage Count 456Imprint Benediction ClassicsPublisher Benediction ClassicsWeight(grams) 665gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

The Heracles is a challenging and problematic play especially for the student. Bond's introduction and commentary (first published in hardback in 1981) is especially welcome, since the last major edition of the play was published in 1895 and was so...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451531537Author SophoclesFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 255gDimensions(mm) 171mm * 106mm * 25mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420958690Author AristophanesFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 7mm

Euripides Fabulae: Vol. II (Sup., El., Her., Tro., Iph.Tau., Ion)ReviewsShould I teach Drama in Translation again, I shall be very tempted to include this! * Professor Gareth Morgan, University of Texas *Book InformationISBN 9780198145905Author James...

Woodruff's work with Peter Meineck makes this text one that is accessible to today's students and could be staged for modern audiences. Line notes printed at the bottom of the page bring a reader further quick assistance. . . . The choral odes as...

Euripides' Bakkhai is the staple of the canon of Greek tragedy and is required or strongly recommended reading for most undergraduate Classics majors. It also surfaces quite often in non-classics courses focusing on tragedy because its structure and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787806429Author PlautusFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint Stage DoorPublisher Stage DoorWeight(grams) 127gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 5mm

The Greek fleet assembles at the bay of Aulis in readiness to launch an attack on Troy, but the wind suddenly drops and the ships stand idle. Don Taylor's translation is faithful to Euripides' original, and the play confronts us with themes of war and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781951319663Author SenecaFormat HardbackPage Count 162Imprint Wiseblood BooksPublisher Wiseblood BooksWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 11mm

This paperback edition of Euripides' Cyclops (first published in hardback in 1984) provides an invaluable introduction to the text for students. The play itself is the only example of satyric drama to have survived complete into the modern world. This...

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...

In this provocative book, C. Fred Alford examines the possibility that the insights into human needs and aspirations offered by the great Greek tragedies are more profound than psychoanalytic theory. Drawing on the work of Melanie Klein, R. J. Lifton,...

'We certainly need in English a book devoted to Plautus alone and here we have it.' Phoenix This reissue of virtually the only book in English devoted to the work of the Roman comedy writer Plautus (c. 254-184 BC) includes a new preface and additional...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934206294Author Samael Aun WeorFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint Glorian PublishingPublisher Glorian Publishing

This Norton Critical Edition includes: * Sheila Murnaghan's celebrated new translation of Sophocles' famed Greek tragedy depicting the deadly conflict between Antigone-daughter of Oedipus-and her uncle Creon, the unyielding new ruler of Thebes. * A full...

In this new translation, Sophocles early masterpiece comes boldly to life. In Greek tradition, Aias is the outmoded warrior whom time passes by. In Sophocles play, he becomes the man who moves resolutely beyond time. Most previous versions and...

In most versions of the Hippolytos myth, Phaidra is depicted as an utterly debauched character, a woman reduced to shamelessness by the power of Aphrodite. In Euripides' Hippolytos, however--informed by the playwright's moral and religious...

In Herakles, Euripides reveals with great subtlety and complexity the often brutal underpinnings of our social arrangements. The play enacts a thoroughly contemporary dilemma about the relationship between personal and state violence to civic order . Of...

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...

Aristophanes is widely credited with having elevated the classical art of comedy to the level of legitimacy and recognition that only tragedy had hitherto achieved, and producing some of the most intriguing works of literature to survive from classical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781951319632Author SenecaFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint Wiseblood BooksPublisher Wiseblood BooksWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 9mm

Antigone is one of the most influential and thought-provoking of all Greek tragedies. Set in a newly victorious society, where possibilities seem boundless and mankind can overcome all boundaries except death, the action is focussed through the prism of...

"Euripides, the Athenian playwright who dared to question the whims of wanton gods, has always been the most intriguing of the Greek tragedians. Now, with translations aimed at the stage rather than the page, his restless intellect strikes the chord...

This book examines the performance of Greek tragedy in the classical Athenian theatre. Whilst post structuralist criticism of Greek tragedy has tended to focus on the literary text, the analysis of stagecraft and the theatre has been markedly...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781940997902Author Ian JohnstonFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Faenum Publishing, Ltd.Publisher Faenum Publishing, Ltd.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781940997902Author Ian JohnstonFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Faenum Publishing, Ltd.Publisher Faenum Publishing, Ltd.Weight(grams)...

Who killed Laius? Most readers assume Oedipus did. At the play's end, he stands convicted of murdering his father, marrying his mother, and triggering a deadly plague. With selections from a stellar assortment of critics including Walter Burkert, Terry...

Situated within contemporary posthumanism, this volume offers theoretical and practical approaches to materiality in Greek tragedy. Established and emerging scholars explore how works of the three major Greek tragedians problematize objects and affect,...

A bold new reconception of ancient Greek drama as a mode of philosophical thinkingThe Philosophical Stage offers an innovative approach to ancient Greek literature and thought that places drama at the heart of intellectual history. Drawing on evidence...

Sophocles' immortal Oedipus plays personify both the cosmic and the all-too-human forces that wreak emotional and physical mayhem upon the lives of a stricken royal family. The three plays have continued to strike a chord with audiences throughout every...

Aeschylus: Agamemnon Volume II: Commentary 1-1055Book InformationISBN 9780199271719Author Eduard FraenkelFormat HardbackPage Count 488Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams) 881gDimensions(mm) 244mm * 162mm * 34mm

"Dionysos, the God of wine and theatre has returned to his native land to take revenge on the puritanical Pentheus who refuses to recognise him of his rites. Remorselessly, savagely and with black humour, the God drives Pentheus and all the city to their...

Agamemnon is the first of the three plays within the Oresteia trilogy and is considered to be one of Aeschylus' greatest works. This collection of 12 essays, written by prominent international academics, brings together a wide range of topics surrounding...

The latest title to join the acclaimed Greek Tragedy in New Translations series, Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus tells the story of the last day in the life of Oedipus. It was written at the end of the fifth century BCE in Athens, in the final years of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905670970Author William D. FurleyFormat HardbackPage Count 262Imprint University of London PressPublisher University of London

This is the first book-length study of Plautus' shortest surviving comedy, Curculio, a play in which the tricksy brown-nosed title character ("The Weevil") bamboozles a shady banker and a pious pimp to secure the freedom of the enslaved girl his patron...

This volume offers the fruits of Peter Meineck and Paul Woodruff's dynamic collaboration on the plays of Sophocles' Theban cycle, presenting the translators' Oedipus Tyrannus (2000) along with Woodruff's Antigone (2001) and a muscular new Oedipus at...