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  • The Anatomy of Dance Discourse

    Literary and Philosophical Approaches to Dance in the Later Graeco-Roman World

    by Karin Schlapbach ...
    Within the newly thriving field of ancient Greek and Roman performance and dance studies, The Anatomy of Dance Discourse offers a fresh and original perspective on ancient perceptions of dance. Focusing on the second century CE, it provides an overview of the dance discourse of this period and explores the conceptualization of dance across an array of different texts, from Plutarch and Lucian of ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

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  • Conversations of Socrates

    by Xenophon ...
    Translated by Hugh Tredennick, Robin Waterfield ...
    After the execution of Socrates in 399 BC, a number of his followers wrote dialogues featuring him as the protagonist and, in so doing, transformed the great philosopher into a legendary figure. Xenophon's portrait is the only one other than Plato's to survive, and while it offers a very personal interpretation of Socratic thought, it also reveals much about the man and his philosophical views. In ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

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  • The Complete Fables

    by Aesop ...
    Translated by Robert Temple, Olivia Temple ...
    Aesop was probably a prisoner of war, sold into slavery in the early sixth century BC, who represented his masters in court and negotiations, and relied on animal stories to put across his key points. All these fables, full of humour, insight and savage wit, as well as many fascinating glimpses of ordinary life, have now been brought together for the first time in this definitive and fully ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature

    Edited by M. C. Howatson ...
    Series series Oxford Quick Reference
    The third edition of The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature is the complete and authoritative reference guide to the classical world and its literary heritage. It not only presents the reader with all the essential facts about the authors, tales, and characters from ancient myth and literature, but it also places these details in the wider contexts of the history and society of the Greek and ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Lucan and the Sublime

    Power, Representation and Aesthetic Experience

    by Henry J. M. Day ...
    Series series Cambridge Classical Studies
    This is the first comprehensive study of the sublime in Lucan. Drawing upon renewed literary-critical interest in the tradition of philosophical aesthetics, Henry Day argues that the category of the sublime offers a means of moving beyond readings of Lucan's Bellum Civile in terms of the poem's political commitment or, alternatively, nihilism. Demonstrating in dialogue with theorists from Burke ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Tragic Pleasure from Homer to Plato

    by Rana Saadi Liebert ...
    This book offers a resolution of the paradox posed by the pleasure of tragedy by returning to its earliest articulations in archaic Greek poetry and its subsequent emergence as a philosophical problem in Plato's Republic. Socrates' claim that tragic poetry satisfies our 'hunger for tears' hearkens back to archaic conceptions of both poetry and mourning that suggest a common source of pleasure in ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Selected Dialogues

    Translated by C. D. N. Costa ...
    by Lucian ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'you'll find another man to harvest, Glycerion: let this one go' The Greek satirist Lucian was a brilliantly entertaining writer who invented the comic dialogue as a vehicle for satiric comment. His influence was immense, not only in the Greek world, but on later European writers such as Rabelais and Swift. His dialogues puncture the pretensions of pompous philosophers and describe the daily lives ... Read more

    $79.19 USD

  • The Complete Euripides

    Volume II: Iphigenia in Tauris and Other 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

    $12.39 USD

  • Aristotle and the Arc of the Tragedy

    Oedipus Rex, Othello, Death of a Salesman

    by Leon Golden ...
    Aristotle and the Arc of Tragedy is the latest of Leon Golden's books to connect Ancient Greece to modern culture. In a world facing many pressing issues Classics professor Golden wants to champion the values and achievements of Classical Civilization. He asserts that Homeric Epic and Greek Tragedy are as relevant today as they were millennia ago because they are riveting and insightful studies of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ancient Chinese Emperors and How They Ruled-Children's Ancient History Books

    by Baby Professor ...
    History textbooks really do look and sound boring. This ancient history book is not one of them. Featuring the ancient Chinese Emperors and how they ruled, this book aims to present the stories in the most interesting way possible to keep your kids’ enthusiasm. Check it out here and buy your own copy. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Rhetoric

    Edited by Erik Gunderson ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Rhetoric thoroughly infused the world and literature of Graeco-Roman antiquity. This Companion provides a comprehensive overview of rhetorical theory and practice in that world, from Homer to early Christianity, accessible to students and non-specialists, whether within classics or from other periods and disciplines. Its basic premise is that rhetoric is less a discrete object to be grasped and ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • Simile and Identity in Ovid's Metamorphoses

    by Marie Louise von Glinski ...
    Nulli sua forma manebat. The world of Ovid's Metamorphoses is marked by constant flux in which nothing keeps its original form. This book argues that Ovid uses the epic simile to capture states of unresolved identity - in the transition between human, animal and divine identity, as well as in the poem's textual ambivalence between genres and the negotiation of fiction and reality. In conjuring up ... Read more

    $38.59 USD