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  • Aristophanes: Acharnians, Knights, Wasps, Peace

    A Verse Translation, with Introductions and Notes

    by Stephen Halliwell ...
    Aristophanes is the only surviving representative of Greek Old Comedy, an exuberant form of festival drama which flourished in Athens during the fifth century BC. One of the most original playwrights in the entire Western tradition, his comedies are remarkable for their brilliant combination of fantasy and satire, their constantly inventive manipulation of language, and their use of absurd ... Read more

    $100.79 USD

  • Aristophanes: Clouds, Women at the Thesmophoria, Frogs

    A Verse Translation, with Introduction and Notes

    by Stephen Halliwell ...
    Series series
    Aristophanes is the only surviving representative of Greek Old Comedy, an exuberant form of festival drama which flourished in Athens during the fifth century BC. One of the most original playwrights in the entire Western tradition, his comedies are remarkable for their brilliant combination of fantasy and satire, their constantly inventive manipulation of language, and their use of absurd ... Read more

    $117.89 USD

  • The Aesthetics of Mimesis

    Ancient Texts and Modern Problems

    by Stephen Halliwell ...
    Mimesis is one of the oldest, most fundamental concepts in Western aesthetics. This book offers a new, searching treatment of its long history at the center of theories of representational art: above all, in the highly influential writings of Plato and Aristotle, but also in later Greco-Roman philosophy and criticism, and subsequently in many areas of aesthetic controversy from the Renaissance to ... Read more

    $50.39 USD

  • Preston Pubs

    by Stephen R. Halliwell ...
    Over the past 400 years more than 800 pubs have opened in the city of Preston. While many have been lost due to time, money or misfortune, the stories and memories live on. Preston Pubs offers a captivating glimpse into the history of some of Preston's most famous pubs. Drawing upon an eclectic collection of photographs, Stephen Halliwell presents the reader with an insight into the history and ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • Wasps and Other Plays

    A new verse translation, with introduction and notes

    by Aristophanes, Prof Stephen Halliwell ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'No matter which way you look at us, you'll find that we're in all respects; Remarkably wasp-like in our habits, in every aspect of our lives.' Aristophanes is the only surviving representative of Greek Old Comedy, an exuberant form of festival drama which flourished in Athens during the fifth century BCE. One of the most original playwrights in the entire Western tradition, his comedies are ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Scholarship and Controversy

    Centenary Essays on the Life and Work of Sir Kenneth Dover

    Edited by Stephen Halliwell, Dr. Christopher Stray ...
    The essays collected in this volume were written to mark the centenary of the birth of Sir Kenneth Dover, one of the twentieth century's most influential classical scholars. Between them, they explore the two major sides of his career: his groundbreaking scholarship on Greek language, literature and history, and the more public-facing roles he assumed in universities and at the British Academy ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Marginal Comment

    A Memoir Revisited

    by Sir K. J. Dover, Stephen Halliwell, Dr. Christopher Stray ...
    Marginal Comment, which attracted keen and widespread interest on its original publication in 1994, is the remarkable memoir of one of the most distinguished classical scholars of the modern era. Its author, Sir Kenneth Dover, whose academic publications included the pathbreaking book Greek Homosexuality (1978, reissued by Bloomsbury in 2016), conceived of it as an 'experimental' autobiography – ... Read more

    $29.19 USD

  • Greek Homosexuality

    with Forewords by Stephen Halliwell, Mark Masterson and James Robson

    by Sir K. J. Dover ...
    Hailed as magisterial when it first appeared, Greek Homosexuality remains an academic milestone and continues to be of major importance for students and scholars of gender studies. Kenneth Dover explores the understanding of homosexuality in ancient Greece, examining a vast array of material and textual evidence that leads him to provocative conclusions.This new release of the 1989 second edition, ... Read more

    $38.89 USD

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    How Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch Revolutionized Ethics

    by Benjamin J.B. Lipscomb ...
    The story of four remarkable women who shaped the intellectual history of the 20th century: Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch. On the cusp of the Second World War, four women went to Oxford to begin their studies: a fiercely brilliant Catholic convert; a daughter of privilege longing to escape her stifling upbringing; an ardent Communist and aspiring novelist with a ... Read more

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  • Hellenism and Homosexuality in Victorian Oxford

    by Linda C. Dowling ...
    "Dowling's compact and intelligently argued study is concerned with the late-Victorian emergence of homosexuality as an identity rather than as an activity.... [This identity] was formed out of notions of Hellenism current in mid-century Oxford that were held to be lofty and ennobling and even a kind of substitute for a waning Christianity."—Nineteenth- Century Literature"Dowling's study is an ... Read more

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  • Hume

    A Very Short Introduction

    by James A. Harris ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    David Hume, philosopher, historian, economist, librarian, and essayist, was one of the great figures of the European Enlightenment. Unlike some of his famous contemporaries, however, he was not dogmatically committed to idealised conceptions of reason, liberty, and progress. Instead, Hume was a sceptic whose arguments questioned the reach and authority of human rationality, and who put the ... Read more

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  • Fifty Major Philosophers

    Edited by Kathryn Plant, Diane Collinson ...
    Series series Routledge Key Guides
    A comprehensive update of the best-selling first edition, this revitalized new text presents readers with a series of clear, well-written entries focusing on fifty of the most influential philosophers from the last two thousand years.Chosen to present the traditional mainstream of European philosophy, the text also provides a critical survey that meets the needs of readers seeking a broad basic ... Read more

    $52.99 USD