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  • The Lost Plays of Greek Tragedy (Volume 2)

    Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides

    by Dr Matthew Wright ...
    The surviving works of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides have been familiar to readers and theatregoers for centuries; but these works are far outnumbered by their lost plays. Between them these authors wrote around two hundred tragedies, the fragmentary remains of which are utterly fascinating.In this, the second volume of a major new survey of the tragic genre, Matthew Wright offers an ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • The Lost Plays of Greek Tragedy (Volume 1)

    Neglected Authors

    by Dr Matthew Wright ...
    Numerous books have been written about Greek tragedy, but almost all of them are concerned with the 32 plays that still survive. This book, by contrast, concentrates on the plays that no longer exist. Hundreds of tragedies were performed in Athens and further afield during the classical period, and even though nearly all are lost, a certain amount is known about them through fragments and other ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Euripides and Quotation Culture

    by Dr Matthew Wright ...
    Series series Classical Literature and Society
    **Presenting a new approach to Euripides' plays, this book explores the playwright's ancient tragedies in relation to quotation culture.**Treating extant works and lost works side-by-side, Matthew Wright presents a selective survey of ways in which Euripidean tragedy was quoted within antiquity, both in social contexts (on the comic stage, at symposia, in law courts, in education) and in different ... Read more

    Was $93.99 USD Now $32.99 USD

  • Menander: Samia

    by Dr Matthew Wright ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Ancient Comedy Companions
    Matthew Wright brings Menander's Samia to life by explaining how it achieves its comic effects and how it fits within the broader context of fourth-century Greek drama and society. He offers a scene-by-scene reading of the play, combining close attention to detail with broader consideration of major themes, in an approach designed to bring out the humour and nuance of each individual moment on ... Read more

    $26.49 USD

  • Euripides: Orestes

    by Dr Matthew Wright ...
    "Orestes" was one of Euripides' most popular plays in antiquity. Its plot, which centres on Orestes' murder of his mother Clytemnestra and its aftermath, is exciting as well as morally complex; its presentation of madness is unusually intense and disturbing; it deals with politics in a way which has resonances for both ancient and modern democracies; and, it has a brilliantly unexpected and ironic ... Read more

    $29.19 USD

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  • Sophocles: Antigone

    by Prof. Douglas Cairns ...
    Series series Companions to Greek and Roman Tragedy
    Antigone is Sophocles' masterpiece, a seminal influence on a wide range of theatrical, literary, and intellectual traditions. This volume sets the play in the contexts of its mythical background, its performance, its relation to contemporary culture and thought, and its rich reception history. But its main aim is to encourage first-hand engagement with the complexities of interpretation that make ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion

    by David Hume ...
    In the posthumously published Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, the Enlightenment philosopher David Hume attacked many of the traditional arguments for the existence of God, expressing the belief that religion is founded on ignorance and irrational fears. Though calm and courteous in tone - at times even tactfully ambiguous - the conversations between Hume's vividly realized fictional figures ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • The Great Philosophers: Aristotle

    by Kenneth Mcleish ...
    Series series GREAT PHILOSOPHERS
    'Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all' Aristotle'Knowing yourself is the mark of all wisdom''You will never do anything in this world without courage'Aristotle was one of the greatest philosophers that has ever lived. Taught by Plato, he was the first genuine scientist in history, a true pioneer of both science and philosophy. Widely credited as the inventor of the ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Birth of the Symbol

    Ancient Readers at the Limits of Their Texts

    by Peter T. Struck ...
    "A rich and fascinating account of how . . . symbolism and allegorical reading developed over the course of classical antiquity." — Literary ImaginationNearly all of us have studied poetry and been taught to look for the symbolic as well as literal meaning of the text. Is this the way the ancients saw poetry? In Birth of the Symbol, Peter Struck explores the ancient Greek literary critics and ... Read more

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  • Socrates

    Ironist and Moral Philosopher

    by Gregory Vlastos ...
    This long-awaited study of the most enigmatic figure of Greek philosophy reclaims Socrates' ground-breaking originality. Written by a leading historian of Greek thought, it argues for a Socrates who, though long overshadowed by his successors Plato and Aristotle, marked the true turning point in Greek philosophy, religion and ethics. The quest for the historical figure focuses on the Socrates of ... Read more

    $51.69 USD

  • The Emotions of the Ancient Greeks

    Studies in Aristotle and Classical Literature

    by David Konstan ...
    It is generally assumed that whatever else has changed about the human condition since the dawn of civilization, basic human emotions - love, fear, anger, envy, shame - have remained constant. David Konstan, however, argues that the emotions of the ancient Greeks were in some significant respects different from our own, and that recognizing these differences is important to understanding ancient ... Read more

    $54.89 USD

  • Plutarch: How to Study Poetry (De audiendis poetis)

    by Plutarch ...
    Series series Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
    Plutarch's essay 'How to Study Poetry' offers a set of reading practices intended to remove the potential damage that poetry can do to the moral health of young readers. It opens a window on to a world of ancient education and scholarship which can seem rather alien to those brought up in the highly sophisticated world of modern literary theory and criticism. The full Introduction and Commentary, ... Read more

    $40.99 USD