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  • Ancient Greek Athletics

    Primary Sources in Translation

    by Charles H. Stocking, Susan A. Stephens ...
    The 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 an essential feature of both Greek and Roman culture, there is an especially strong need for proper treatment and understanding of the texts and other media used to reconstruct practices and ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Homer's Iliad and the Problem of Force

    by Charles H. Stocking ...
    Series series Classics in Theory Series
    The topic of force has long remained a problem of interpretation for readers of Homer's Iliad, ever since Simone Weil famously proclaimed it as the poem's main subject. This book seeks to address that problem through a full-scale treatment of the language of force in the Iliad from both philological and philosophical perspectives. Each chapter explores the different types of Iliadic force in ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

  • A Cultural History of Sport in Antiquity

    Edited by Paul Christesen, Charles H. Stocking ...
    Series series The Cultural Histories Series
    A Cultural History of Sport in Antiquity covers the period 800 BCE to 600 CE. From the founding of the Olympics and Rome's celebratory games, sport permeated the cultural life of Greco-Roman antiquity almost as it does our own. Gymnasiums, public baths, monumental arenas, and circuses for chariot racing were constructed, and athletic contests proliferated. Sports-themed household objects were very ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • The Politics of Sacrifice in Early Greek Myth and Poetry

    by Charles H. Stocking ...
    This book offers a new interpretation of ancient Greek sacrifice from a cultural poetic perspective. Through close readings of the Theogony, the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, the Homeric Hymn to Hermes, and the Odyssey in conjunction with evidence from material culture, it demonstrates how sacrifice narratives in early Greek hexameter poetry are intimately connected to a mythic-poetic discourse ... Read more

    $109.99 USD

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    Volume I: The Theban Plays

    Edited by Peter Burian, Alan Shapiro ...
    Series series Greek Tragedy in New Translations
    Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can best re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in order to evoke the poetry of the originals. The tragedies collected here were originally available as single ... Read more

    $13.29 USD

  • An Introduction to Greek Tragedy

    by Ruth Scodel ...
    This book provides an accessible introduction for students and anyone interested in increasing their enjoyment of Greek tragic plays. Whether readers are studying Greek culture, performing a Greek tragedy, or simply interested in reading a Greek play, this book will help them to understand and enjoy this challenging and rewarding genre. An Introduction to Greek Tragedy provides background ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Looking at Bacchae

    Edited by David Stuttard ...
    Bacchae 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 mother and aunts who, driven temporarily insane, have joined the Bacchae (devotees of the god Dionysus, or Bacchus). The startling plot, driven by Dionysus' desire to punish his family for refusing to ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Antigone

    by Slavoj Žižek ...
    Antigone is universally celebrated as the ultimate figure of ethical resistance to the state power which oversteps its legitimate scope and as the defender of simple human dignity (more important than all political struggles). But is she really so innocent and pure? What if there is a dark side to her? What if Creon, the representative of state power, also has a valuable point to make? And what if ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Greek Heroes in and out of Hades

    by Stamatia Dova ...
    Series series Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches
    Greek Heroes in and out of Hades is a study on heroism and mortality from Homer to Plato. In a collection of thirty enjoyable essays, Stamatia Dova combines intertextual research and thought-provoking analysis to shed new light on concepts of the hero in the Iliad and the Odyssey, Bacchylides 5, Plato's Symposium, and Euripides' Alcestis.Through systematic readings of a wide range of seemingly ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Thalia Delighting in Song

    Essays on Ancient Greek Poetry

    by Emmet I. Robbins ...
    Emmet I. Robbins earned an international reputation as a scholar of ancient Greek poetry, possessing a broad cultural background and a command of many languages that allowed him to present sensitive and informed readings of poets from Homer to the tragedians. Thalia Delighting in Song assembles for the first time his work from 1975 through 1999, reflecting his close reading of the Greek texts and ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Female Acts in Greek Tragedy

    by Helene P. Foley ...
    Series series Martin Classical Lectures
    Although Classical Athenian ideology did not permit women to exercise legal, economic, and social autonomy, the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides often represent them as influential social and moral forces in their own right. Scholars have struggled to explain this seeming contradiction. Helene Foley shows how Greek tragedy uses gender relations to explore specific issues in the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Art of Euripides

    Dramatic Technique and Social Context

    by Donald J. Mastronarde ...
    In this book Professor Mastronarde draws on the seventeen surviving tragedies of Euripides, as well as the fragmentary remains of his lost plays, to explore key topics in the interpretation of the plays. It investigates their relation to the Greek poetic tradition and to the social and political structures of their original setting, aiming both to be attentive to the great variety of the corpus ... Read more

    $43.99 USD