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  • Tragic Bodies

    Edges of the Human in Greek Drama

    by Professor Nancy Worman ...
    Winner of the PROSE Award (2022) for ClassicsThis book argues for a new way of reading tragedy that attends to how bodies in the ancient plays pivot between subject and object, person and thing, living and dead, and so serve as vehicles for confronting the edges of the human. At the same time, it explores the ways in which Greek tragedy pulls up close to human bodies, examining their physical ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Landscape and the Spaces of Metaphor in Ancient Literary Theory and Criticism

    by Nancy Worman ...
    This study explores a previously uncharted area of ancient literary theory and criticism: the ancient landscapes (such as the Ilissus river in Athens and Mount Helicon) that generate metaphors for distinguishing styles, which dovetail with ancient conceptions of metaphor as itself spatial and mobile. Ancient writers most often coordinate stylistic features with country settings, where ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • Virginia Woolf's Greek Tragedy

    by Professor Nancy Worman ...
    Series series Classical Receptions in Twentieth-Century Writing
    In Woolf's writings Greece and Greek tragedy in particular shape an exoticized aesthetic space that both emerges from and enables critique of the cosy settings and colonialist conceits of elite (and largely male) British attitudes toward culture and politics. Rather than highlighting Woolf's exclusion from male intellectual purviews, as so many scholars have emphasized, this book urges attention ... Read more

    $38.09 USD

  • Space, Place, and Landscape in Ancient Greek Literature and Culture

    Edited by Kate Gilhuly, Nancy Worman ...
    This book brings together a collection of original essays that engage with cultural geography and landscape studies to produce new ways of understanding place, space, and landscape in Greek literature from the fifth and fourth centuries BCE. The authors draw on an eclectic collection of contemporary approaches to bring the study of ancient Greek literature into dialogue with the burgeoning ... Read more

    $109.09 USD

  • The Cast of Character

    Style in Greek Literature

    by Nancy Worman ...
    Well before Aristotle's Rhetoric elucidated the elements of verbal style that give writing its persuasive power, Greek poets and prose authors understood the importance of style in creating compelling characters to engage an audience. And because their works were composed in predominantly oral settings, their sense of style included not only the characters' manner of speaking, but also their ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

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  • Poetics

    by Aristotle ...
    Translated by Anthony Kenny ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'What is poetry, how many kinds of it are there, and what are their specific effects?' Aristotle's Poetics is the most influential book on poetry ever written. A founding text of European aesthetics and literary criticism, from it stems much of our modern understanding of the creation and impact of imaginative writing, including poetry, drama, and fiction. For Aristotle, the art of representation ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Gilgamesh

    Edited by John Gardner ...
    The story of Gilgamesh, an ancient epic poem written on clay tablets in a cuneiform alphabet, is as fascinating and moving as it is crucial to our ability to fathom the time and the place in which it was written. Gardner's version restores the poetry of the text and the lyricism that is lost in the earlier, almost scientific renderings. The principal theme of the poem is a familiar one: man's ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Classics: A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Mary Beard, John Henderson ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    This Very Short Introduction to Classics links a haunting temple on a lonely mountainside to the glory of ancient Greece and the grandeur of Rome, and to Classics within modern culture-from Jefferson and Byron to Asterix and Ben-Hur.We are all Classicists - we come into touch with the Classics daily: in our culture, politics, medicine, architecture, language, and literature. What are the true ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Landskipping

    Painters, Ploughmen and Places

    by Anna Pavord ...
    Landskipping is a ravishing celebration of landscape, its iridescent beauty and its potential to comfort, awe and mesmerise. In spirit as Romantic as rational, Anna Pavord explores the different ways in which we have, throughout the ages, responded to the land. In the eighteenth century, artists first started to paint English scenery, and the Lakes, as well as Snowdon, began to attract a new kind ... Read more

    $20.09 USD

  • The Art of Rhetoric

    by Aristotle ...
    With the emergence of democracy in the city-state of Athens in the years around 460 BC, public speaking became an essential skill for politicians in the Assemblies and Councils - and even for ordinary citizens in the courts of law. In response, the technique of rhetoric rapidly developed, bringing virtuoso performances and a host of practical manuals for the layman. While many of these were little ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Harmony of disenchantment

    by Rosario Di Petta ...
    The look of a disenchanted neapolitan violinist is the thread that connects the nodes of its existence. The magic of Budapest as a backdrop to the sinking of his illusions; yet it is precisely the ability to react to any defeat will make him a kind of skillful surfer, able to ride the waves most impressive. In this eternal resume lies, perhaps, the harmony that governs his life. ... Read more

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  • The Story of Athens

    The Fragments of the Local Chronicles of Attika

    by Phillip Harding ...
    Series series Routledge Sourcebooks for the Ancient World
    A leading authority in the field, Phillip Harding presents the very first English translations of the six Athenian writers known as the Atthidographers.In his vivid and detailed history, Harding examines the remaining fragments of these historical writers' work – in chronological order – and how these writings, dating from the fifth and fourth century BC, reveal an invaluable wealth of information ... Read more

    $57.99 USD