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Antigone by Sophokles 9781554815869
RRP: £17.95Booksplease Price: £13.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781554815869Author SophoklesFormat PaperbackPage Count 262Imprint Broadview Press IncPublisher... -
Elektra Sophokles 9781839044465
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42'There is something bad here, growing. Day and night I watch it. Growing.' Elektra, haunted by her father's assassination, is tormented by grief; a fierce instinct for survival; and a thirst for... -
Oedipus at Colonus: Sophocles, Athens, and the World by Andreas Markantonatos 9783110193268
RRP: £109.00Booksplease Price: £74.17This book aims to offer a contemporary literary interpretation of the play, including a readable discussion of its underlying historical, religious, moral, social, and mythical issues. Also, it... -
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Scholia vetera in Sophoclis "Oedipum Coloneum" by Georgios A. Xenis 9783110447330
RRP: £96.50Booksplease Price: £65.74The ancient scholia to Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus shed light on Alexandrian ways of engaging with this play, and are richer than those to the other Sophoclean plays. The last editor, Vittorio de... -
Oresteia: Agamemnon by Aiskhylos; Elektra by Sophokles; Orestes by Euripides by Anne Carson 9780865479166
Booksplease Price: £12.07In this innovative rendition of "The Oresteia", the poet, translator, and essayist Anne Carson combines three different visions - Aischylos' 'Agamemnon', Sophokles' 'Elektra', and Euripides'... -
Scholia vetera in Sophoclis >Antigonam< by Georgios A. Xenis 9783110616774
RRP: £103.00Booksplease Price: £70.12Scholars have been seeking to understand Sophocles' Antigone for over two millennia. The origins of this long tradition of the play's interpretation are now represented mainly by a series of notes... -
Scholia vetera in Sophoclis ›Oedipum Tyrannum‹ by Georgios A. Xenis 9783110715446
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £93.52This authoritative new edition of the ancient scholia to Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus is the first to rely on a complete scrutiny of the sources of the text and the conjectural activity of scholars,... -
Antigone by Anne Carson
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.62When her dead brother is decreed a traitor, his body left unburied beyond the city walls, Antigone refuses to accept this most severe of punishments. Defying her uncle who governs, she dares to say... -
Persuasion in Greek Tragedy: A Study of Peitho by R.G.A. Buxton 9780521136730
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £40.98One of the difficulties in appreciating the literature of a foreign culture, and even more that of an ancient one, is to be sensitive to the overtones that certain concepts held for the original... -
Elektra: Play by Sophocles 9780811211147
Booksplease Price: £11.99Early in 1949, while under indictment for treason and hospitalized by court order at St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C., Ezra Pound collaborated with Rudd Fleming, a professor at the... -
Oxyrhynchus Papyri. Volume LXXXII by N Gonis 9780856982309
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £85.34The core of this volume is the biggest concentration of magical papyri published in some 25 years, giving a fascinating insight into approaches to averting and treating illnesses, and attracting a... -
Harvard Studies in Classical Philology: v.99 by Richard F. Thomas 9780674379473
RRP: £39.95Booksplease Price: £33.66Volume 99 of Harvard Studies in Classical Philology includes the following contributions: Nancy Felson, "Vicarious Transport: Fictive Deixis in Pindar's Pythian Four"; Douglas E. Gerber, "Pindar,... -
Sons of the Gods, Children of Earth: Ideology and Literary Form in Ancient Greece by Peter W. Rose 9781501742576
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.99In this ambitious and venturesome book, Peter W. Rose applies the insights of Marxist theory to a number of central Greek literary and philosophical texts. He explores major points in the trajectory... -
A Guide to Ancient Greek Drama by Ian C. Storey 9781118455128
RRP: £41.95Booksplease Price: £38.81This newly updated second edition features wide-ranging, systematically organized scholarship in a concise introduction to ancient Greek drama, which flourished from the sixth to third century BC... -
Marriage to Death: The Conflation of Wedding and Funeral Rituals in Greek Tragedy by Rush Rehm 9780691656281
RRP: £105.00Booksplease Price: £82.32The link between weddings and death-as found in dramas ranging from Romeo and Juliet to Lorca's Blood Wedding-plays a central role in the action of many Greek tragedies. Female characters such as... -
Trojan Women: a comic by Anne Carson
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.13This new comic-book version of Euripides' classic The Trojan Women follows the fates of Hekabe, Andromache and Kassandra after Troy has been sacked and all its men killed. The Trojan Women is a... -
Marriage to Death: The Conflation of Wedding and Funeral Rituals in Greek Tragedy by Rush Rehm 9780691606736
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.63The link between weddings and death-as found in dramas ranging from Romeo and Juliet to Lorca's Blood Wedding-plays a central role in the action of many Greek tragedies. Female characters such as... -
Figures of Play: Greek Drama and Metafictional Poetics by Gregory W. Dobrov 9780195116588
RRP: £142.50Booksplease Price: £117.40Figures of Play explores the reflexive aspects of ancient theatrical culture across genres. Fifth century tragedy and comedy sublimated the agonistic basis of Greek civilization in a way that invited... -
Antigone Undone: Juliette Binoche, Anne Carson, Ivo van Hove, and the Art of Resistance by Will Aitken 9780889775213
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £18.23Antigone Undone offers an urgent and mesmerizing account of the creative and destructive power of great art. In 2015 Will Aitken journeyed to Luxembourg for the rehearsals and premiere of Anne...