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  • The City and the Stage

    Performance, Genre, and Gender in Plato's Laws

    by Marcus Folch ...
    What role did poetry, music, song, and dance play in the social and political life of the ancient Greek city? How did philosophy respond to, position itself against, and articulate its own ambitions in relation to the poetic tradition? How did ancient philosophers theorize and envision alternatives to fourth-century Athenian democracy? The City and the Stage poses such questions in a study of the ... Read more

    $95.39 USD

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  • The Complete Euripides:Volume I: Trojan Women and Other Plays

    Volume I: Trojan Women 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

    $8.99 USD

  • Torture and Truth (Routledge Revivals)

    by Page duBois ...
    First published in 1991, this book — through the examination of ancient Greek literary, philosophical and legal texts — analyses how the Athenian torture of slaves emerged from and reinforced the concept of truth as something hidden in the human body. It discusses the tradition of understanding truth as something that is generally concealed and the ideas of ‘secret space’ in both the female body ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • The 25 Most Famous People of Ancient Greece - Ancient Greece History | Children's Ancient History

    by Baby Professor ...
    Ancient Greece was home to philosophers, mathematicians and other great minds who shaped civilization. You're going to meet 25 of them in the pages of this ancient history book for kids. It is hoped that by the end of this book, you will develop a sense of gratitude for all the contributions of these famous people. Who do you think made the most significant mark in history? ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • OCR Classical Civilisation A Level Components 31 and 34

    Greek Religion and Democracy and the Athenians

    by Athina Mitropoulos, Tim Morrison, James Renshaw, Dr Julietta Steinhauer ...
    This textbook is endorsed by OCR and supports the specification for A-Level Classical Civilisation (first teaching September 2017). It covers Components 31 and 34 from the 'Beliefs and Ideas' Component Group:Greek Religion by Athina Mitropoulos and Julietta SteinhauerDemocracy and the Athenians by Tim Morrison and James RenshawWhy was worshipping the gods so important to ancient Greek life? To ... Read more

    $17.79 USD

  • Guilt by Descent

    Moral Inheritance and Decision Making in Greek Tragedy

    by N. J. Sewell-Rutter ...
    Series series Oxford Classical Monographs
    Blighted and accursed families are an inescapable feature of Greek tragedy, and many scholars have treated questions of inherited guilt, curses, and divine causation. N.J. Sewell-Rutter gives these familiar issues a fresh appraisal, arguing that tragedy is a medium that fuses the conceptual with the provoking and exciting of emotion, neither of which can be ignored if the texts are to be fully ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • OCR Classical Civilisation A Level Components 32 and 33

    Love and Relationships and Politics of the Late Republic

    by Matthew Barr, Dr Lucy Cresswell, Alastair Thorley ...
    This textbook is endorsed by OCR and supports the specification for A-Level Classical Civilisation (first teaching September 2017). It covers Components 32 and 33 from the 'Beliefs and Ideas' Component Group:Love and Relationships by Matthew Barr and Alastair ThorleyPolitics of the Late Republic by Lucy CresswellHow was love interpreted and explained by the poets and philosophers of the ancient ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Barbarian Play: Plautus' Roman Comedy

    by William Anderson ...
    Series series Heritage
    In this volume William S. Anderson sets Plautus, who wrote Rome's earliest surviving poetry, in his rightful place among the Greek and Roman writers of what we know as New Comedy (fourth to second centuries).Anderson begins by defining major innovations that Plautus made on inherited Greek New Comedy (Menander, Philemon, and Diphilus), transforming it from romantic domestic drama to a celebration ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • The History of Animals (Illustrated Edition)

    by Aristotle ...
    Along with Plato and Socrates, Aristotle (384-322 B.C.) is one of the triumvirate of philosophers responsible for the establishment of Western philosophy as it exists today. Socrates, Plato and Aristotle were among the first to refine philosophical thought, and Socrates is credited with devising the Socratic Method as a way to argue and debate points rationally. The Ancient Greek philosophers ... Read more

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  • From the Socratics to the Socratic Schools

    Classical Ethics, Metaphysics and Epistemology

    by Ugo Zilioli ...
    In the two golden centuries that followed the death of Socrates, ancient philosophy underwent a tremendous transformation that culminated in the philosophical systematizations of Plato, Aristotle and the Hellenistic schools. Fundamental figures other than Plato were active after the death of Socrates; his immediate pupils, the Socratics, took over his legacy and developed it in a variety of ways. ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Plato�s Labyrinth

    Sophistries, Lies and Conspiracies in Socratic Dialogues

    by Aakash Singh Rathore ...
    This original and stimulating study of Plato's Socratic dialogues rereads and reinterprets Plato's writings in terms of their dialogical or dramatic form. Taking inspiration from the techniques of Umberto Eco, Jacques Derrida, and Leo Strauss, Aakash Singh Rathore presents the Socratic dialogues as labyrinthine texts replete with sophistries and lies that mask behind them important philosophical ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Performance and Culture in Plato's Laws

    Edited by Anastasia-Erasmia Peponi ...
    This volume is dedicated to an intriguing Platonic work, the Laws. Probably the last dialogue Plato wrote, the Laws represents the philosopher's most fully developed views on many crucial questions that he had raised in earlier works. Yet it remains a largely unread and underexplored dialogue. Abounding in unique and valuable references to dance and music, customs and norms, the Laws seems to ... Read more

    $107.49 USD