Ancient & Classical

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780977019724Author AristophanesFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Theater 61 PressPublisher Theater 61 PressWeight(grams) 157gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

The story of a futile quest for knowledge, this ancient anti-war drama is one of the neglected plays within the corpus of Greek tragedy. Euripides' shortest tragic work, Rhesos is unique in lacking a prologue, provoking some scholars to the conclusion...

Of the 1995 full-length edition: `Aristophanes addicts unite! This book is for us. It has everything that we always wanted to know about Birds and we were unable to find in one place.' Greek Gazette `The commentary elucidates with an experts...

Published in the new Methuen Classical Dramatists series Written at the height of the Peloponnesian War, the three plays in this volume highlight the trivial causes and dire consequences of war and the fate of the innocent. In Andromache, Hektor's widow...

ElectraBook InformationISBN 9780198720942Author EuripidesFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams) 281g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645620931Author Oscar WildeFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Bibliologica PressPublisher Bibliologica PressWeight(grams) 154g

A comprehensive survey of Roman theatrical production, this book examines all aspects of Roman performance practice, and provides fresh insights on the comedies of Plautus and Terence. Following an introductory chapter on the experience of Roman comedy...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814254219Author Wilfred E MajorFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780977593354Author Greg FraserFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint QuidzuncPublisher QuidzuncWeight(grams) 304gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm * 13mm

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...

In considering the practice and theory of translating Classical Greek plays into English from a theatrical perspective, Found in Translation, first published in 2006, also addresses the wider issues of transferring any piece of theatre from a source into...

A translation of one of Euripides' finest plays by one of Britain's most experienced translators Ion is the story of the abandoned child Ion, reunited with her mother XouthosA new translation of Euripides' play in which the young hero, a foundling...

Most readers nowadays encounter the plays of Aristophanes in the classroom, not the theater. Yet the ""father of comedy"" wrote his plays for the stage, not as literary texts. Many English translations of the plays were written decades ago, and in their...

In considering the practice and theory of translating Classical Greek plays into English from a theatrical perspective, Found in Translation, first published in 2006, also addresses the wider issues of transferring any piece of theatre from a source into...

In this fascinating and accessible book, David Wiles introduces ancient Greek theatre to students and enthusiasts interested in knowing how the plays were performed. Theatre was a ceremony bound up with fundamental activities in ancient Athenian life and...

A single-volume edition of the major Greek tragedies In a period of sixty-six years, three Athenian playwrights produced a series of tragedies which became a touchstone for drama for the next two and a half thousand years. The six plays in this volume...

According to Greek legend, Antigone, the daughter of Oedipus, secretly buried her brother in defiance of the order of Creon, king of Thebes. Sentenced to death by Creon, she forestalled him by committing suicide. The theme of the conflict between...

A discussion of the text or interpretation of passages from six plays by Euripides edited by the author for Oxford Classical Texts: Supplices, Electra, Heracles, Troades, Iphigenia in Tauris, Ion. In addition, if James Diggle has already discussed a...

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

Plautus, Rome's earliest extant poet, was acclaimed by ancient critics above all for his mastery of language and his felicitous jokes; and yet in modern times relatively little attention has been devoted to elucidating these elements fully. In Funny...

One of the shortest plays in Greek drama, The Children of Herakles offers enough action for two or three plays of normal length. But this very richness and complexity have made the play elusive, subject to dismissive readings, and extraordinarily...

The formidable talents of Anthony Hecht, one of the most gifted of contemporary American poets, and Helen Bacon, a classical scholar, are here brought to bear on this vibrant translation of Aeschylus' much underrated tragedy The Seven Against Thebes. The...

This book examines the impact that Athenian Old Comedy had on Greek writers of the imperial era. It is generally acknowledged that imperial-era Greeks responded to Athenian Old Comedy in one of two ways: either as a treasure trove of Atticisms or as a...

Aristophanes' engagement with tragedy is one of the most striking features of his comedies: Euripides appears repeatedly as a character in these plays, jokes about tragedy and tragic poets abound, and parodies of tragedy frequently underlie whole scenes...

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A translation of Euripides's Orestes by Peck, a poet, and Nisetich, a classicist, with introduction, glossary, and full stage directions.New in the Greek Tragedy in New Translations seriesAbout the AuthorJohn Peck, author of five books of poetry, is a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798869196620Author Henrik IbsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Natal Publishing, LLCPublisher Natal Publishing, LLCWeight(grams) 141g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781685710941Author Kees LigtelijnFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Punctum BooksPublisher Punctum BooksWeight(grams) 218gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm *...

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...

In The Pity of Achilleus, Jinyo Kim examines how the major themes of the Iliad-Achilleus' 'wrath,' heroic values such as honor and glory, and human mortality and suffering, to mention the most widely recognized-are connected to each other in a way that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922223982Author Colin Russell BakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Kingdomgates PublishingPublisher Kingdomgates PublishingWeight(grams) 113g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787371279Author AristophanesFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Scribe PublishingPublisher Scribe PublishingWeight(grams) 82gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604443479Author Henry JamesFormat PaperbackImprint Indoeuropeanpublishing.comPublisher Indoeuropeanpublishing.comWeight(grams) 200g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787371378Author AristophanesFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Scribe PublishingPublisher Scribe PublishingWeight(grams) 77gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

In this book, Marian Demos demonstrates the significance of three famous lyric quotations within their respective contexts in the dialogues of Plato. Demos reminds us that familiarity with the lyric poets was part of the educational background of Plato...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912605491Author Robert LeachFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Lichfield Mysteries Community ArtsPublisher Lichfield Mysteries Community...

In this landmark collection of essays, renowned classicist Charles Segal offers detailed analyses of major texts from archaic and early classical Greek poetry; in particular, works of Alcman, Mimnermus, Sappho, Pindar, Bacchylides, and Corinna. Segal...

In this book, Roger Travis brings together poetics and psychology to study the tragic chorus in Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus. Beginning from Quintilian's definition of allegory as extended metaphor, Travis argues that in Oedipus at Colonus the chorus of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789353366803Author SophoclesFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Lector HousePublisher Lector HouseWeight(grams) 286gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 10mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787371347Author AristophanesFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Scribe PublishingPublisher Scribe PublishingWeight(grams) 109gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...