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  • Euripides and the Instruction of the Athenians

    de Justina Gregory ...
    Political by its very nature, Greek tragedy reflects on how life should be lived in the polis, and especially the polis that was democratic Athens. Instructional as well, drama frequently concerns itself with the audience's moral education. Euripides and the Instruction of the Athenians draws on these political and didactic functions of tragedy for a close analysis of five plays: Alcestis, ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

  • Cheiron's Way

    Youthful Education in Homer and Tragedy

    de Justina Gregory ...
    This book studies the social and ethical formation of youthful figures in Homer, Sophocles, and Euripides. Every fictional character comes with a past attached, a presumed personal history that is both implicit and explicit; for the youthful heroes and heroines of epic and tragedy, early education figures significantly in that past. Cheiron's Way takes as its point of departure the words of Homer ... Leer más

    $100.99 USD

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  • Medea and Other Plays

    de Euripides ...
    Traducido por John Davie ...
    Alcestis/Medea/The Children of Heracles/Hippolytus'One of the best prose translations of Euripides I have seen' Robert FaglesThis selection of plays shows Euripides transforming the titanic figures of Greek myths into recognizable, fallible human beings. Medea, in which a spurned woman takes revenge upon her lover by killing her children, is one of the most shocking of all the Greek tragedies. ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • The Bacchae and Other Plays

    de Euripides ...
    Through their sheer range, daring innovation, flawed but eloquent characters and intriguing plots, the plays of Euripides have shocked and stimulated audiences since the fifth century BC. Phoenician Women portrays the rival sons of King Oedipus and their mother's doomed attempts at reconciliation, while Orestes shows a son ravaged with guilt after the vengeful murder of his mother. In the Bacchae, ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Poetics

    de Aristotle ...
    Traducido por 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 ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

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    Disponible también en: Audiolibros

  • Antigone; Oedipus the King; Electra

    de Sophocles ...
    Traducido por H. D. F. Kitto ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    Love and loyalty, hatred and revenge, fear, deprivation, and political ambition: these are the motives which thrust the characters portrayed in these three Sophoclean masterpieces on to their collision course with catastrophe. Recognized in his own day as perhaps the greatest of the Greek tragedians, Sophocles's reputation has remained undimmed for two and a half thousand years. His greatest ... Leer más

    $5.99 USD

  • The Trojan Women and Other Plays

    de Euripides ...
    Traducido por James Morwood ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    Hecuba The Trojan Women Andromache In the three great war plays contained in this volume Euripides subjects the sufferings of Troy's survivors to a harrowing examination. The horrific brutality which both women and children undergo evokes a response of unparalleled intensity in the playwright whom Aristotle called the most tragic of the poets. Yet the new battleground of the aftermath of war is ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • Oedipus the King

    de Sophocles ...
    Series series Enriched Classics
    The famed Athenian tragedy in which Oedipus’s own faults contribute to his tragic downfall.A great masterpiece on which Aristotle based his aesthetic theory of drama in the Poetics and from which Freud derived the Oedipus complex, King Oedipus puts out a sentence on the unknown murderer of his father Laius. By a gradual unfolding of incidents, Oedipus learns that he was the assassin and that ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD

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  • Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (Mobi Classics)

    de David Hume ...
    Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion is a philosophical work written by the Scottish philosopher David Hume. Through dialogue, three fictional characters named Demea, Philo, and Cleanthes debate the nature of God's existence. While all three agree that a god exists, they differ sharply in opinion on God's nature or attributes and how, or if, humankind can come to knowledge of a deity.In the ... Leer más

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  • Electra

    de Sophocles, Anne Carson ...
    Series series Greek Tragedy in New Translations
    Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly recreate 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. Under the general editorship of Peter Burian and Alan Shapiro, ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD

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  • Antigone

    de Sophocles ...
    Traducido por Mr Don Taylor ...
    Series series Student Editions
    The gods never move faster than when punishing men with the consequences of their own actions.Desperate to gain control over a city ravaged by civil war, Creon refuses to bury the body of Antigone's rebellious brother. Outraged, she defies his edict. Creon condemns the young woman, his niece, to be buried alive. The people daren't object but the prophet Teiresias warns that this tyranny will anger ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

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    Disponible también en: Audiolibros

  • Enraged

    Why Violent Times Need Ancient Greek Myths

    de Emily Katz Anhalt ...
    "Anhalt's contribution is building an overarching narrative of how the Greeks engaged problems of anger—problems that continue to provoke."— ChoiceMillennia ago, Greek myths exposed the dangers of violent rage and the need for empathy and self-restraint. Homer's Iliad, Euripides' Hecuba, and Sophocles' Ajax show that anger and vengeance destroy perpetrators and victims alike. Composed before and ... Leer más

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