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“david stuttard”

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  • Hubris

    Pericles, the Parthenon, and the Invention of Athens

    by David Stuttard ...
    A 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 often described as the Golden Age of Athens. The city witnessed a flowering of philosophy, art, and architecture—including an ambitious building program, with the Parthenon its centerpiece. But as David ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Nemesis

    Alcibiades and the Fall of Athens

    by David Stuttard ...
    Alcibiades 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 general, and a ruthless politician. He was also a serial traitor, infamous for his dizzying changes of loyalty in the Peloponnesian War. Nemesis tells the story of this extraordinary life and the ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Phoenix

    A Father, a Son, and the Rise of Athens

    by David Stuttard ...
    A 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 Cimon, the father and son whose defiance of Persia vaulted Athens to a leading place in the Greek world.When we think of ancient Greece we think first of Athens: its power, prestige, and revolutionary ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • Looking at Greek Drama

    Origins, Contexts and Afterlives of Ancient Plays and Playwrights

    Edited by David Stuttard ...
    This 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 such as structure, character, staging and music. With contributions by 13 international scholars, world experts in their field, it provides readers with clear, authoritative, up-to-date considerations ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Looking at Hippolytus

    Edited by David Stuttard ...
    **Written 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 audience may have reacted to his play. As well as considering the play's relationship with earlier lost tragedies and discussing many of its characters and central themes including its relationship with ... Read more

    $93.19 USD

  • Looking at Persians

    Edited by David Stuttard ...
    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 examines how Aeschylus responded to such a turning point in Athenian history and how his audience may have reacted to his play. As well as considering ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Looking at Agamemnon

    Edited by David Stuttard ...
    Agamemnon 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 academics, brings together a wide range of topics surrounding Agamemnon fromits relationship with ancient myth and ritual to its modern reception. There is a diverse array of discussion on the salient themes ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Greek Mythology

    A Traveler's Guide from Mount Olympus to Troy

    by David Stuttard ...
    A hands-on traveler's guide to the enthralling tales of Greek mythology, organized around the cities and landscapes where the events are setThe Greek myths have a universal appeal, beyond the time and physical place in which they were created. But many are firmly rooted in specific landscapes: the city of Thebes and mountain range Cithaeron dominate the tale of Oedipus; the city of Mycenae broods ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • Looking at Ajax

    Edited by David Stuttard ...
    Ajax 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 of a respected war hero's mental breakdown but (like Sophocles' Antigone) the treatment of an enemy's remains and the management of his memory. Pitting the fate of the individual against not just his ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Looking at Medea

    Essays and a translation of Euripides’ tragedy

    Edited by David Stuttard ...
    Euripides' 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 richer bride, it is unusual among Greek dramas for its acute portrayal of female psychology. Medea can appear at once timeless and strikingly modern. Yet, the play is very much a product of the ... Read more

    $30.79 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

    $29.19 USD

  • Looking at Lysistrata

    Eight Essays and a New Version of Aristophanes' Provocative Comedy

    by David Stuttard ...
    In Aristophanes' Lysistrata, the women of Athens, fed up with the war against Sparta, go on a sex strike and barricade themselves into the acropolis to persuade their husbands to vote against the war. It is the most often performed of all Aristophanes' comedies. It is also, perhaps, the most misunderstood. This collection of essays by eight leading academics - written for sixth-form students and ... Read more

    $29.99 USD