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  • Aristotle's Way

    How Ancient Wisdom Can Change Your Life

    by Edith Hall ...
    From renowned classicist Edith Hall, ARISTOTLE'S WAY is an examination of one of history's greatest philosophers, showing us how to lead happy, fulfilled, and meaningful livesAristotle was the first philosopher to inquire into subjective happiness, and he understood its essence better and more clearly than anyone since. According to Aristotle, happiness is not about well-being, but instead a ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Facing Down the Furies

    Suicide, the Ancient Greeks, and Me

    by Edith Hall ...
    An award-winning classicist turns to Greek tragedies for the wisdom to understand the damage caused by suicide and help those who are contemplating suicide themselvesIn Sophocles’ tragedy Oedipus the Tyrant, a messenger arrives to report that Jocasta, queen of Thebes, has killed herself. To prepare listeners for this terrible news, he announces, “The tragedies that hurt the most are those that ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Epic of the Earth

    Reading Homer's "Iliad" in the Fight for a Dying World

    by Edith Hall ...
    An urgent study of Homer’s Iliad, exposing the beginnings of the ecological disaster we now face and facilitating our understanding of its historyThe roots of today’s environmental catastrophe run deep into humanity’s past. Through this unprecedented reading of Homer’s Iliad, the award-winning classicist Edith Hall examines how this foundational text both documents the environmental practices of ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Sophocles

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Edith Hall ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring This Very Short Introduction introduces the life, work, and influence of one of the greatest dramatists of all time, Sophocles the Athenian. Placing his plays within their historical context, and explaining the conventions of ancient Greek tragic theatre, Edith Hall spotlights their distinctive features-tight plots, titanic personalities, lucid ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Introducing the Ancient Greeks

    From Bronze Age Seafarers to Navigators of the Western Mind

    by Edith Hall ...
    "Wonderful…a thoughtful discussion of what made [the Greeks] so important, in their own time and in ours." —Natalie Haynes, IndependentThe ancient Greeks invented democracy, theater, rational science, and philosophy. They built the Parthenon and the Library of Alexandria. Yet this accomplished people never formed a single unified social or political identity. In Introducing the Ancient Greeks, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    Facing Down the Furies

    Suicide, the Ancient Greeks, and Me

    by Edith Hall ...
    Narrated by Edith Hall ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 25 min

    An award-winning classicist turns to Greek tragedies for the wisdom to understand the damage caused by suicide and help those who are contemplating suicide themselvesIn Sophocles’ tragedy Oedipus the Tyrant, a messenger arrives to report that Jocasta, queen of Thebes, has killed herself. To prepare listeners for this terrible news, he announces, “The tragedies that hurt the most are those that ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Tony Harrison

    Poet of Radical Classicism

    by Edith Hall ...
    Series series Classical Receptions in Twentieth-Century Writing
    Longlisted for the 2022 Runciman AwardThis is the first book-length study of the classicism of Tony Harrison, one of the most important contemporary poets in England and the world. It argues that his unique and politically radical classicism is inextricable from his core notion that poetry should be a public property in which communal problems are shared and crystallised, and that the poet has a ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

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    Epic of the Earth

    Reading Homer's "Iliad" in the Fight for a Dying World

    by Edith Hall ...
    Narrated by Edith Hall ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 40 min

    The roots of today's environmental catastrophe run deep into humanity's past. Through this unprecedented reading of Homer's Iliad, the award-winning classicist Edith Hall examines how this foundational text both documents the environmental practices of the ancient Greeks and betrays an awareness of the dangers posed by the destruction of the natural landscape. Underlying Homer's account of brutal ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    Aristotle's Way

    How Ancient Wisdom Can Change Your Life

    by Edith Hall ...
    Narrated by Sian Thomas ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 48 min

    From renowned classicist Edith Hall, ARISTOTLE'S WAY is an examination of one of history's greatest philosophers, showing us how to lead happy, fulfilled, and meaningful livesAristotle was the first philosopher to inquire into subjective happiness, and he understood its essence better and more clearly than anyone since. According to Aristotle, happiness is not about well-being, but instead a ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    Sophocles

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Edith Hall ...
    Narrated by Mary Jane Wells ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 24 min

    This Very Short Introduction introduces the life, work, and influence of one of the greatest dramatists of all time, Sophocles the Athenian.Placing his plays within their historical context, and explaining the conventions of ancient Greek tragic theatre, Edith Hall spotlights their distinctive features—tight plots, titanic personalities, lucid style, sympathetic women, exquisite poetry, and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • The Trojan Women and Other Plays

    by Euripides, Edith Hall ...
    Translated by James Morwood ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    Hecuba The Trojan Women Andromache In the three great war plays contained in this volume Euripides subjects the sufferings of Troy's survivors to a harrowing examination. The horrific brutality which both women and children undergo evokes a response of unparalleled intensity in the playwright whom Aristotle called the most tragic of the poets. Yet the new battleground of the aftermath of war is ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Arts of Leading

    Perspectives from the Humanities and the Liberal Arts

    by Joy Connolly, Edith Hall, Noah Lopez, Alan Mittleman, Tahera Qutbuddin, Marla Frederick, John Miles, Kristin Bezio, Paul Escott, Thavolia Glymph, David Lubin, Gwendolyn Dubois Shaw, Pegram Harrison, Melissa Jones Briggs, Corey Walker ...
    A deeply insightful approach to cultivating leaders of character centered on the arts and humanitiesWhat does it mean to lead? Whom do we consider to be leaders? And how might viewing leadership through the many lenses of the humanities expand our understanding of how it is imagined, represented, and enacted?Drawing on insights from eminent scholars in the classics, philosophy, religion, ... Read more

    $28.99 USD