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  • A Very Queer Family Indeed

    Sex, Religion, and the Bensons in Victorian Britain

    by Simon Goldhill ...
    "We can begin with a kiss, though this will not turn out to be a love story, at least not a love story of anything like the usual kind."So begins A Very Queer Family Indeed, which introduces us to the extraordinary Benson family. Edward White Benson became Archbishop of Canterbury at the height of Queen Victoria's reign, while his wife, Mary, was renowned for her wit and charm—the prime minister ... Read more

    $20.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • How to Stage Greek Tragedy Today

    by Simon Goldhill ...
    From the stages of Broadway and London to university campuses, Paris, and the bourgeoning theaters of Africa, Greek tragedy remains constantly in production. This global revival, in addition to delighting audiences, has highlighted both the promise and the pitfalls of staging ancient masterpieces in the modern age. Addressing the issues and challenges these performances pose, renowned classicist ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Queer Cambridge

    An Alternative History

    by Simon Goldhill ...
    Queer Cambridge recounts the untold story of a gay community living, for many decades, at the very heart of the British Establishment. Making effective use of chiefly forgotten archival sources – including personal diaries and letters – the author reveals a network that was in equal parts tolerant and acerbic, and within which the queer Fellows of Cambridge University explored bold new forms of ... Read more

    $18.89 USD

  • Freud's Couch, Scott's Buttocks, Brontë's Grave

    Adventures in Travel

    by Simon Goldhill ...
    Series series Culture Trails
    The Victorian era was the high point of literary tourism. Writers such as Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Sir Walter Scott became celebrities, and readers trekked far and wide for a glimpse of the places where their heroes wrote and thought, walked and talked. Even Shakespeare was roped in, as Victorian entrepreneurs transformed quiet Stratford-upon-Avon into a combination shrine and tourist ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Cambridge Companion to Lucian

    Edited by Simon Goldhill ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Lucian is one of the most prolific and wide-ranging writers from antiquity and one of the most influential and controversial. His work is deeply embedded in the cultural and religious politics of the Greek world in the Roman Empire, but also played an important role in later periods, particularly during the Renaissance, and was considered a crucial example of the inherited wisdom of classical ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Choral Tragedy

    Greek Poetics and Musical Ritual

    by Claude Calame, Simon Goldhill ...
    Translated by Vanessa Casato ...
    Series series Classical Scholarship in Translation
    Ever since Aristotle opened the discussion on the role of the chorus in Greek tragedy, theories of the chorus have continued to proliferate and provoke debate to this day. The tragic chorus had its own story to tell; it was a collective identity, speaking within and to a collective citizen body, acting as an instrument through which stories of other times and places were dramatized into resonant ... Read more

    $27.09 USD

  • Reading Greek Tragedy

    by Simon Goldhill ...
    Series series Cambridge Classical Classics
    This book is an advanced critical introduction to Greek tragedy. It is written specifically for the reader who does not know Greek and who may be unfamiliar with the context of the Athenian drama festival but who nevertheless wants to appreciate the plays in all their complexity. Simon Goldhill aims to combine the best contemporary scholarly criticism in classics with a wide knowledge of modern ... Read more

    $25.49 USD

  • Victorian Engagements with the Bible and Antiquity

    The Shock of the Old

    Edited by Simon Goldhill, Ruth Jackson Ravenscroft ...
    The nineteenth century was a period in which ideas of history and time were challenged as never before. This is the first book to explore how the study of classical antiquity and the study of the Bible together formed an image of the past which became central to Victorian self-understanding. These specially commissioned, multi-disciplinary essays brilliantly reveal the richness of Victorian ... Read more

    $129.59 USD

  • The Retrospective Muse

    Pathways through Ancient Greek Literature and Culture

    by Froma I. Zeitlin ...
    Series series Myth and Poetics II
    The Retrospective Muse showcases the celebrated work of Froma I. Zeitlin. Over many decades, Zeitlin's innovative studies have changed the field of classics. Her instantly recognizable work brings together anthropology, gender studies, cultural studies, and an acute literary sensibility to open ancient texts and ideas to new forms of understanding. A selection of her luminous essays on topics ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

  • The Christian Invention of Time

    Temporality and the Literature of Late Antiquity

    by Simon Goldhill ...
    Series series Greek Culture in the Roman World
    Time is integral to human culture. Over the last two centuries people's relationship with time has been transformed through industrialisation, trade and technology. But the first such life-changing transformation – under Christianity's influence – happened in late antiquity. It was then that time began to be conceptualised in new ways, with discussion of eternity, life after death and the end of ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • What Is a Jewish Classicist?

    Essays on the Personal Voice and Disciplinary Politics

    by Simon Goldhill ...
    Series series Rubicon
    In recent years, there has been no issue that has convulsed academia and its role in society more stridently than the personal politics of its institutions: who has access to education? How does who you are change what you study and how you engage with it? How does scholarship reflect the politics of society – how should it? These new essays from one of the best-known scholars of ancient Greece ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Preposterous Poetics

    The Politics and Aesthetics of Form in Late Antiquity

    by Simon Goldhill ...
    Series series Greek Culture in the Roman World
    How does literary form change as Christianity and rabbinic Judaism take shape? What is the impact of literary tradition and the new pressures of religious thinking? Tracing a journey over the first millennium that includes works in Latin, Greek, Hebrew and Aramaic, this book changes our understanding of late antiquity and how its literary productions make a significant contribution to the cultural ... Read more

    $38.59 USD