Ancient & Classical

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...

'In this masterful reevaluation of Euripides, Michael Walton recasts the playwright in light of his resonance for today's translators and directors. Springing from the rehearsal room rather than the page, Walton shows us not only why we are ready for...

An essential book for students of Greek drama and literature: Aristophanes is widely regarded as one of Ancient Greece's foremost satirists - offering students of the period a unique insight into the world of Athens and its theatre Written in the century...

Alan Hughes presents a new complete account of production methods in Greek comedy. The book summarises contemporary research and disputes, on such topics as acting techniques, theatre buildings, masks and costumes, music and the chorus. Evidence is...

Blighted and accursed families are an inescapable feature of Greek tragedy, and many scholars have treated questions of inherited guilt, curses, and divine causation. N.J. Sewell-Rutter gives these familiar issues a fresh appraisal, arguing that tragedy...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787371507Author EuripidesFormat PaperbackPage Count 46Imprint Scribe PublishingPublisher Scribe PublishingWeight(grams) 77gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

AndromacheBook InformationISBN 9780198721185Author EuripidesFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams) 264gDimensions(mm) 187mm * 120mm * 15mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781853991998Author S. IrelandFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Bristol Classical PressPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLCWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780977593361Author Greg FraserFormat PaperbackPage Count 354Imprint QuidzuncPublisher QuidzuncWeight(grams) 422gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm * 19mm

This book introduces readers who may have no previous knowledge of Menander's comedies to Epitrepontes (The Arbitration), arguably the most exquisitely crafted of his better-preserved plays. It explains what we know about the play, how we know it, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781515435266Author Francis BaconFormat HardbackPage Count 152Imprint SMK BooksPublisher SMK BooksWeight(grams) 395gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 13mm

Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus (or Oedipus Rex) has exerted more influence than any other drama, ancient or modern, on the history of theatre, and this influence has extended far beyond the boundaries of the western theatrical tradition to include African...

Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly recreate the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go...

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...

Libation Bearers is the 'middle' play in the only extant tragic trilogy to survive from antiquity, Aeschylus' Oresteia, first produced in 458 BCE. This introduction to the play will be useful for anyone reading it in Greek or in translation. Drawing on...

This is the first book to offer comprehensive discussion of the dynamics of Greek obscenity and a detailed commentary on the terminology itself. It sets the standard for scholarly work on ancient obscenity in language, and has established itself as a...

"Surviving Greek Tragedy" is a history of the physical survival to the present day of the thirty-two extant tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides. Beginning with the first revival of the plays in the fourth century BC, it charts the course of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553212211Author Moses HadasFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787371552Author EuripidesFormat PaperbackPage Count 30Imprint Scribe PublishingPublisher Scribe PublishingWeight(grams) 54gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Outstepping the literal bounds of genre, Euripides' Helen has been referred to by scholars as both a tragedy and a comedy. In this sensitive new translation by James Michie and Colin Leach, Euripides' fragile structure of subtlety, in both timing and...

Produced in 458 BC, Aeschylus' Choephori stands as the second play in the Oresteian trilogy. The bloodshed begun in the first play with the murder of Agamemnon by his wife Clytemnestra is here continued when Agamemnon's son Orestes avenges his father's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420967470Author EuripidesFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 10mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780862922399Author Titus Maccius PlautusFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Bristol Classical PressPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLCWeight(grams)...

The Frogs follows interpersonal conflicts between men and women, Greek gods, and the natural and supernatural. Using extraordinary circumstances, the author provides commentary on multiple public figures spanning religion, politics and literature. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849022170Author AnonFormat HardbackPage Count 454Imprint Benediction ClassicsPublisher Benediction ClassicsWeight(grams) 834gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

In this first introduction to Plautus' Trinummus, students and non-specialists alike are guided through the themes, context, and enduring humor of this Roman comedy. The play portrays the story of an elaborate game of keep-away involving a hidden...

In this new translation of Euripides' celebrated Greek tragedy, W.S. Merwin and George E. Dimock, Jr. offer a compelling look at the devastating consequence of `man's inhumanity to man'. A stern critique of Greek culture, Iphigeneia at Aulis condemns...

This volume sets out to discuss a crucial question for ancient comedy - what makes Aristophanes funny? Too often Aristophanes' humour is taken for granted as merely a tool for the delivery of political and social commentary. But Greek Old Comedy was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787371606Author EuripidesFormat PaperbackPage Count 34Imprint Scribe PublishingPublisher Scribe PublishingWeight(grams) 59gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

This book answers the question 'How did Athenian drama shape ideas about civic identity?' through the medium of three case studies focusing on props. Traditional responses to the question have overlooked the significance of props which were symbolically...