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Looking at Agamemnon by David Stuttard
Booksplease Price: €40.27Agamemnon 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... -
Looking at Hippolytus David Stuttard 9781350429024
Booksplease Price: €102.85Written at a time of great social upheaval, Hippolytus is one of the most studied plays in Greek drama. This volume examines how Euripides responded to contemporary ideas and events, and how his... -
Looking at Ajax by David Stuttard 9781350190610
Booksplease Price: €40.27Ajax 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... -
Looking at Persians by David Stuttard 9781350227927
Booksplease Price: €108.75Aeschylus' 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... -
Looking at Antigone by David Stuttard 9781350112766
Booksplease Price: €42.64Antigone is one of the most influential and thought-provoking of all Greek tragedies. Set in a newly victorious society, where possibilities seem boundless and mankind can overcome all boundaries... -
Looking at Agamemnon by David Stuttard 9781350149533
Booksplease Price: €122.70Agamemnon 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... -
Looking at Persians by David Stuttard 9781350227965
Booksplease Price: €37.91Aeschylus’ 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... -
Parthenon: Power and Politics on the Acropolis by David Stuttard
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.54The Parthenon is one of the world's most iconic buildings: today, its silhouette symbolizes Greece. Built on the rocky acropolis of Athens in the aftermath of the devastating invasion of Xerxes, the... -
Looking at Bacchae by David Stuttard 9781474221474
RRP: €30.93Booksplease Price: €25.92Bacchae is one of the most troubling yet intriguing of Greek tragedies. Written during Euripides' self-imposed exile in Macedonia, it tells of the brutal murder and dismemberment of Pentheus by his... -
A History of Ancient Greece in 50 Lives by David Stuttard
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.02The political leaders, writers, artists and philosophers of ancient Greece turned a small group of city states into a pan-Mediterranean civilization, whose legacy can be found everywhere today. But... -
Phoenix: A Father, a Son, and the Rise of Athens by David Stuttard
RRP: €36.83Booksplease Price: €31.58A Times Literary Supplement Best Book of the YearA vivid, novelistic history of the rise of Athens from relative obscurity to the edge of its golden age, told through the lives of Miltiades and... -
Nemesis: Alcibiades and the Fall of Athens by David Stuttard 9780674660441
RRP: €29.69Booksplease Price: €24.35Alcibiades was one of the most dazzling figures of the Golden Age of Athens. A ward of Pericles and a friend of Socrates, he was spectacularly rich, bewitchingly handsome and charismatic, a skilled... -
Hubris: Pericles, the Parthenon, and the Invention of Athens by David Stuttard 9780674258471
RRP: €29.69Booksplease Price: €24.94A new perspective on ancient Athens at the height of its powers, reinterpreting the city’s supposed “Golden Age” as a period of ruinous culture wars.The age of Pericles, in the fifth century BC, is... -
Looking at Medea: Essays and a translation of Euripides' tragedy by David Stuttard 9781472527721
Booksplease Price: €156.87Euripides' Medea is one of the most often read, studied and performed of all Greek tragedies. A searingly cruel story of a woman's brutal revenge on a husband who has rejected her for a younger and... -
Looking at Medea: Essays and a translation of Euripides' tragedy by David Stuttard 9781472530516
Booksplease Price: €35.56Euripides' Medea is one of the most often read, studied and performed of all Greek tragedies. A searingly cruel story of a woman's brutal revenge on a husband who has rejected her for a younger and... -
Roman Mythology: A Traveller's Guide from Troy to Tivoli by David Stuttard
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.04All Roads Lead to Rome, as the famous saying goes. The sites and events throughout the ancient world provided Romans with a rich tapestry to weave the stories of their past. Rome itself was a melting... -
Greek Mythology: A Traveller's Guide from Mount Olympus to Troy by David Stuttard
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €15.30The Greek myths have a universal appeal, reaching far beyond the time and physical place in which they were created. But many are firmly rooted in specific settings: Thebes dominates the tragedy of... -
Power Games: Ritual and Rivalry at the Ancient Greek Olympics by David Stuttard 9780714122724
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.02Power; the power of the gods; the power of Greek cities; the power of the human body: all these were celebrated at the ancient Olympic Games. Ancient Olympia symbolized excellence and supremacy in... -
Looking at Greek Drama: Origins, Contexts and Afterlives of Ancient Plays and Playwrights David Stuttard 9781350320895
Booksplease Price: €34.70This is a vital and accessible overview of Greek drama from its origins to its later reception, including chapters on authors and dramas in their social and religious context as well as key aspects... -
Looking at Greek Drama: Origins, Contexts and Afterlives of Ancient Plays and Playwrights David Stuttard 9781350320857
Booksplease Price: €90.57This vital and accessible overview of Greek drama from its origins to its later reception includes chapters on authors and plays in their social and religious context as well as key aspects such as... -
Looking at Lysistrata: Eight Essays and a New Version of Aristophanes' Provocative Comedy by David Stuttard 9781853997365
Booksplease Price: €34.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781853997365Author David StuttardFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Bristol Classical... -
Sparta's First Attic War: The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta, 478-446 B.C. by Paul Anthony Rahe
RRP: €32.73Booksplease Price: €29.69A companion volume to The Spartan Regime and The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta that explores the collapse of the Spartan-Athenian alliance "Provocative, intriguing and cogently argued."-David... -
The Spartans by Andrew J. Bayliss
RRP: €16.05Booksplease Price: €12.04The image of Sparta, and the Spartans, is one dyed indelibly into the public consciousness: musclebound soldiers with long hair and red cloaks, bearing shiny bronze shields emblazoned with the Greek... -
Ancient Greek Athletics: Primary Sources in Translation by Charles H. Stocking 9780198839590
Booksplease Price: €142.75The Ancient Greek Athletics offers the most comprehensive collection to date of primary sources in translation for the study of ancient Greek athletics. Because Greek athletics was such an essential... -
Ancient Greek Athletics: Primary Sources in Translation by 9780198839606
RRP: €38.66Booksplease Price: €38.07The Sourcebook of Ancient Greek Athletics offers the most comprehensive collection to date of primary sources in translation for the study of ancient Greek athletics. Because Greek athletics was such... -
Greek Tragedies as Plays for Performance by D Raeburn 9781119089858
RRP: €103.47Booksplease Price: €89.04This is a unique introduction to Greek tragedy that explores the plays as dramatic artifacts intended for performance and pays special attention to construction, design, staging, and musical... -
1177 B.C.: A Graphic History of the Year Civilization Collapsed by Eric H. Cline 9780691213026
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €22.42A beautiful, full-color graphic version of Eric Cline's bestselling 1177 B.C., adapted by award-winning author-illustrator Glynnis FawkesEric Cline's 1177 B.C. tells the story of one of history's... -
Sparta: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Superpower Dr. Andrew Bayliss 9781800816015
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €21.86'Absorbing' The Times 'Gripping' Sam Leith 'There are few bits of history more mythologised, sensitive and political than Sparta, but luckily we have Bayliss' Dan Snow, creator of History Hit ... -
Menelaus in the Archaic Period: Not Quite the Best of the Achaeans Anna R. Stelow (Researcher in the Department of Classics, Researcher in the Department of Classics, University of Virginia) 9780199685929
Booksplease Price: €152.53While there have been many studies devoted to the major heroes and heroines of Homeric epic, among them Achilles, Odysseus, and Helen, the figure of Menelaus has remained notably overlooked in this... -
Sparta: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Superpower by Andrew Bayliss 9781324117513
RRP: €28.56Booksplease Price: €26.23For thousands of years, the ancient Greek city-state of Sparta has been famed as the ultimate warrior society. The flowing crimson capes and bronze shields of Spartan warriors remain the enduring... -
The Spartans: A Very Short Introduction by Andrew J. Bayliss
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.20Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring The myths surrounding Sparta are as old as the city itself. Even in antiquity, Sparta was a unique society, and considered an enigma. The... -
Euripides and the Gods by Mary Lefkowitz 9780199752058
Booksplease Price: €91.50Many modern readers believe that, in his dramas, Euripides was questioning the nature and sometimes even the existence of the gods. In Euripides and the Gods, eminent classicist Mary K. Lefkowitz... -
Building Democracy in Late Archaic Athens by Jessica Paga 9780190083571
RRP: €96.39Booksplease Price: €88.71In 508/7 B.C.E., after years of chaos and uncertainty, the city of Athens was rocked by a momentous occurrence: the passage of a series of reforms that resulted in what has come to be known as the... -
Building Democracy in Late Archaic Athens by Jessica Paga
RRP: €41.04Booksplease Price: €39.00In 508/7 B.C.E., after years of chaos and uncertainty, the city of Athens was rocked by a momentous occurrence: the passage of a series of reforms that resulted in what has come to be known as the... -
How to Be: Life Lessons from the Early Greeks by Adam Nicolson
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €19.12A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR What is the nature of things? Must I think my own way through the world? What is justice? How can I be me? How should we... -
The Classical Art of Command: Eight Greek Generals Who Shaped the History of Warfare by Joseph Roisman 9780199985821
RRP: €51.75Booksplease Price: €43.58This book uniquely looks at the many facets of Greek generalship through the individual careers of some of the best-known Greek commanders. They include the Spartan king Leonidas, who embodied his... -
How to Be: Life Lessons from the Early Greeks by Adam Nicolson 9780008490829
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.85A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR What is the nature of things? Must I think my own way through the world? What is justice? How can I be me? How should we... -
Sparta's Second Attic War: The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta, 446-418 B.C. by Paul Anthony Rahe
RRP: €38.68Booksplease Price: €34.16The latest volume in Paul Rahe's expansive history of Sparta's response to the challenges posed to its grand strategy"Paul Rahe stands out as one of the world's leading scholars on the Peloponnesian... -
Euripides and the Gods by Mary Lefkowitz 9780190939618
RRP: €33.31Booksplease Price: €24.78Modern readers find it hard to come to terms with the gods in Euripides' dramas. Readers try to dismiss them as a literary convention. Stage productions leave them out, especially in the cases when... -
Uncommon Wrath: Caesar, Cato, and the quarrel that ended the Roman Republic by Josiah Osgood 9780192859563
RRP: €35.69Booksplease Price: €25.88A dual biography of Julius Caesar and Cato the Younger that offers a dire warning: republics collapse when personal pride overrides the common good. In Uncommon Wrath, historian Josiah Osgood...