Ancient & Classical

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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...

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

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...

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 EuripidesFormat PaperbackPage Count 94Imprint G&D MediaPublisher G&D Media

The most important theatrical movement in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Europe, the commedia dell'arte has inspired playwrights, artists, and musicians including MoliEre, Dario Fo, Picasso, and Stravinsky. Because of its stock characters,...

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 9781515428954Author Aristophanes AristophanesFormat HardbackPage Count 414Imprint SMK BooksPublisher SMK BooksWeight(grams) 776g

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Spy for Love: 87 Raps from The Warp GBP9.99 Add To Basket Send to a Friend Spy for Love: 87 Raps from The Warp by Neil Oram Binding: PaperBack | Page extent: 120 ISBN: 9781840021646 There's a war going on. A war between the spirit and the mind. Between...

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...

This book, keyed to the Penguin translation, introduces three of Terence's most entertaining and widely read plays. The selection demonstrates his versatility as a playwright: the brilliant farce of The Eunuch, the subtle comedy of Phormio and the more...

Originally published during the early part of the twentieth century, the Cambridge Manuals of Science and Literature were designed to provide concise introductions to a broad range of topics. They were written by experts for the general reader and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781515426660Author Aeschylus AeschylusFormat HardbackPage Count 70Imprint SMK BooksPublisher SMK BooksWeight(grams) 290gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 8mm

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781393533450Author Deborah TademaFormat PaperbackPage Count 356Imprint Deborah TademaPublisher Deborah TademaWeight(grams) 449g

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Originally published in 1948, this book presents an account regarding aspects of style in the works of Aeschylus. The method of the text is based in part on the analysis of lists of words and other features of style, for use in the comparison of various...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781393591535Author Deborah TademaFormat PaperbackPage Count 346Imprint Deborah TademaPublisher Deborah TademaWeight(grams) 440g

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