Ancient & Classical

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781515428947Author Aristophanes AristophanesFormat HardbackPage Count 48Imprint SMK BooksPublisher SMK BooksWeight(grams) 245g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789357489089Author AristophanesFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint Double 9 BooksPublisher Double 9 BooksWeight(grams) 95g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789359395401Author John GalsworthyFormat PaperbackPage Count 58Imprint Double 9 Books LLPPublisher Double 9 Books LLP

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627550048Author EuripidesFormat PaperbackPage Count 42Imprint SMK BooksPublisher SMK BooksWeight(grams) 77g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781617204784Author EuripidesFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint SMK BooksPublisher SMK BooksWeight(grams) 449g

This school edition was first published in 1960. It includes an introduction discussing date, sources, revivals, manuscripts, metre, arguments and prologues. The Latin text is accompanied by notes explaining the irregularities of Plautus' syntax and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781617209994Author EuripidesFormat PaperbackPage Count 28Imprint SMK BooksPublisher SMK BooksWeight(grams) 59g

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 book is an accessible guide through the many twists and turns of Euripides’ Children of Heracles, providing several frameworks through which to understand and appreciate the play. Children of Heracles follows the fortunes of Heracles’ family after...

Lysistrata is the most notorious of Aristophanes’ comedies. First staged in 411 BCE, its action famously revolves around a sex strike launched by the women of Greece in an attempt to force their husbands to end the war. With its risqué humour, vibrant...

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...

This book is an accessible guide through the many twists and turns of Euripides' Children of Heracles, providing several frameworks through which to understand and appreciate the play. Children of Heracles follows the fortunes of Heracles' family after...

This new introduction to Euripides' fascinating interpretation of the story of Electra and her brother Orestes emphasizes its theatricality, showing how captivating the play remains to this day. Electra poses many challenges for those drawn to Greek...

This book uses the mythological hero Heracles as a lens for investigating the nature of heroic violence in Archaic and Classical Greek literature, from Homer through to Aristophanes. Heracles was famous for his great victories as much as for his...

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...

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...

Aeschylus' Persians is unique in being the only extant Greek tragedy on an historical subject: Greece's victory in 480 BC over the great Persian King, Xerxes, eight years before the play was written and first performed in 472 BC. Looking at Persians...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585100378Author SophoclesFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Focus Publishing/R Pullins & CoPublisher Focus Publishing/R Pullins & CoWeight(grams) 341g

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...

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...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781617205361Author Aristophanes AristophanesFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint SMK BooksPublisher SMK BooksWeight(grams) 73g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781515429067Author Aristophanes AristophanesFormat HardbackPage Count 40Imprint SMK BooksPublisher SMK BooksWeight(grams) 231g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798223650973Author John WrightFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint APS BooksPublisher APS BooksWeight(grams) 299gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 12mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781617208560Author Aeschylus AeschylusFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint SMK BooksPublisher SMK BooksWeight(grams) 122gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 4mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555403058Author Ralph M. RosenFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Scholars PressPublisher Scholars PressWeight(grams) 183g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420966978Author SenecaFormat PaperbackPage Count 318Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 404g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781515433477Author SophoclesFormat HardbackPage Count 196Imprint SMK BooksPublisher SMK BooksWeight(grams) 458g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781617208553Author EuripidesFormat PaperbackPage Count 30Imprint SMK BooksPublisher SMK BooksWeight(grams) 59g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781617205668Author Aristophanes AristophanesFormat PaperbackPage Count 414Imprint SMK BooksPublisher SMK BooksWeight(grams) 603g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781617205637Author Aristophanes AristophanesFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint SMK BooksPublisher SMK BooksWeight(grams) 73gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781386070184Author Michael KramerFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Michael KramerPublisher Michael KramerWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm...

Citizenship is a contested term which today inspires both policy-makers and radical activists. David Wiles traces this ideal to its classical roots, examining both theatre and citizenship as performative practices. Wiles examines how people function...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985737962Author Mahmood Karimi HakakFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint Kairios PressPublisher Kairios PressWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989110822Author Micheal DuchesneFormat PaperbackPage Count 28Imprint Historical Perspective MediaPublisher Historical Perspective MediaWeight(grams) 91g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989110815Author Serena CrossonFormat PaperbackPage Count 34Imprint Historical Perspective MediaPublisher Historical Perspective MediaWeight(grams) 104g

Tragedy is a genre for exploring loss and suffering, and this book traces the vital areas where tragedy has shaped and been a resource for Christian theology. There is a history to the relationship of theology and tragedy; tragic literature has explored...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorCABook InformationISBN 9780886290795Author Shirley D. SullivanFormat HardbackPage Count 268Imprint McGill-Queen's University PressPublisher McGill-Queen's...