Ancient & Classical

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789004042209Author Ole Langwitz SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint BrillPublisher BrillWeight(grams) 499g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781779450012Author Henrik IbsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Binker NorthPublisher Binker NorthWeight(grams) 177g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420976038Author SophoclesFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 259g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420969207Author PlautusFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 481g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865160071Author Titus Maccius PlautusFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers,U.S.Publisher Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers,U.S.

Why should Greek tragedy matter now? This book opens a dialogue between the tragic theatre in ancient Athens and the multiple performances of the modern world. In five interconnected chapters, Rush Rehm engages tragedy on its own terms, using our oldest...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420971521Author EuripidesFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 140g

This companion to Alan Sommerstein's Penguin translation of Aristophanes' Clouds Acharnians and Lysistrata is intended for the Greekless reader. An informative introduction is followed by sections of each of the three plays, on Clouds by Kenneth Dover,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781722503864Author SophoclesFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint G&D MediaPublisher G&D Media

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Euripides was particularly noted for his sensitive portrayals of women and for finding a sympathetic side to those whom the stock mythology tended to see as evil monsters, such as Helen of Troy. Medea murdered her children by Jason when he deserted her...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798223118763Author Laurel A RockefellerFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Laurel A. RockefellerPublisher Laurel A. RockefellerWeight(grams) 236g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783384456335Author Aldivan TorresFormat PaperbackPage Count 572Imprint tredition GmbHPublisher tredition GmbHWeight(grams) 676g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953666000Author John CarneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Key and Candle, Inc.Publisher Key and Candle, Inc.Weight(grams) 102g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905670512Author Christos KremmydasFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint University of London PressPublisher University of London

The Plays of Aristophanes (425 BC-388 BC) is a collection of comedies by Athenian playwright Aristophanes. Noted for his exploration of fantasy, sexuality, and contemporary politics, Aristophanes was a leading figure in Old Attic Comedy whose...

Hercules is the best-known character from classical mythology. Seneca's play Hercules Furens presents the hero at a moment of triumph turned to tragedy. Hercules returns from his final labor, his journey to the Underworld, and then slaughters his family...

With its ribald chorus of ithyphallic, half-man / half-horse creatures, satyr drama was a peculiar part of the Athenian theatrical experience. Performed three times each year after a trilogy of tragedies, it was an integral part of the 5th- and...

Composed in early imperial Rome by Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Stoic philosopher and tutor to the emperor Nero, the tragedy Medea is dominated by the superhuman energy of its protagonist: diva, killer, enchantress, force of nature. Seneca's treatment of the...

Though now associated mainly with Sophocles' Theban Plays and Euripides' Bacchae, the theme of Thebes and its royalty was a favorite of ancient Greek poets, one explored in a now lost epic cycle, as well as several other surviving tragedies. With a rich...

'Vengeance will be taken on the killer, then the land will be clean. The contamination will be washed away. The rains will come and the people will be healed.' According to the Oracle, if the murderer of old King Laius is found and punished then all will...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647921859Author AristophanesFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Hackett Publishing CompanyPublisher Hackett Publishing Company

This accessible edition for students brings the Agamemnon, Aeschylus' opening play in the Oresteia trilogy, to life for first-time readers. A hugely popular play in antiquity and with a rich reception history to the present day, this is an essential play...

Athenian comedy is firmly entrenched in the classical canon, but imperial authors debated, dissected and redirected comic texts, plots and language of Aristophanes, Menander, and their rivals in ways that reflect the non-Athenocentric, pan-Mediterranean...

Adopting an innovative and theoretical approach, Greek Tragedy and the Digital is an original study of the encounter between Greek tragedy and digital media in contemporary performance. It explores the ways in which key notions and conventions of Greek...

Technical automation – the ability of man-made (or god-made) objects to move and act autonomously – is not just the province of engineering or science fiction. In this book, Maria Gerolemou, by taking as her starting point the close semantic and...

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...

Ajax is perhaps the earliest of Sophocles' tragedies, yet the issues at its heart remain profoundly resonant today. Set in the Greek encampment during the siege of Troy, it traces not just the story of a respected war hero's mental breakdown but (like...

Asses, asses, and more asses! This new edition of Plautus' rumbustious comedy provides the complete original Latin text, witty scholarly commentary, and an English translation that both complements and explicates Plautus' original style. John Henderson...

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Sophocles, Aeschylus and Euripides are often described as the greatest tragedians of the ancient world. Of these three pivotal founders of modern drama, Euripides is characterized as the interloper and the innovator: the man who put tragic verse into the...

The book is written mainly for students to enable them better to appreciate and enjoy Euripides' Andromache. Its presentation seeks to combine depth of analysis with clarity and accessibility. It discusses Greek theatre and performance, the myth behind...

Drawing together new research from emerging and senior scholars, this selection of papers from the decennial Greek Drama V conference (Vancouver, 2017) explores the works of the ancient Greek playwrights and showcases new methodologies with which to...

After centuries of neglect there is renewed interest in the life and works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca (or Seneca the Younger, c 4 BCE-65 CE). At one time an advisor at court to Nero, Seneca and his political career came to ruin when he was implicated in a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781722503857Author Euripides Format PaperbackPage Count 94Imprint G&D MediaPublisher G&D Media

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783384468710Author Aldivan TorresFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint tredition GmbHPublisher tredition GmbHWeight(grams) 195g

The most famous series of ancient Greek plays, and the only surviving trilogy, is the "Oresteia of Aeschylus", consisting of the "Agamemnon", "Choephoroe" ('Libation Bearers') and "Eumenides" ('Kindly Ones'). These...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783384483843Author Aldivan TorresFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint tredition GmbHPublisher tredition GmbHWeight(grams) 191g