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Enriched Classics Serie de eBooks

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  • 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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  • The Oresteia

    Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides

    de Aeschylus, Robert Fagles, W. B. Stanford ...
    Traducido por Robert Fagles ...
    One of the founding documents of Western culture and the only surviving ancient Greek trilogy, the Oresteia of Aeschylus is one of the great tragedies of all time.In the Oresteia, Aeschylus addressed the bloody chain of murder and revenge within the royal family of Argos. As they move from darkness to light, from rage to self-governance, from primitive ritual to civilized institution, their spirit ... Leer más

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  • The Lion's Skin

    An Intriguing Tale of Deception and Romance in 18th Century Europe

    de Rafael Sabatini ...
    In "The Lion's Skin," Rafael Sabatini weaves an enthralling tale set against the vibrant backdrop of the late 17th century. Through the lens of adventure and intrigue, the narrative follows the young and disillusioned aristocrat, Sir Oliver Tressilian, who becomes embroiled in a life of deception and identity as he dons the mantle of a notorious highwayman. Sabatini's prose is marked by its ... Leer más

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  • The Complete Plays of Sophocles

    A New Translation

    de Robert Bagg, James Scully ...
    The most celebrated plays of ancient Athens in vivid, dynamic new translations by award-winning poets Robert Bagg & James Scully.The dominant Athenian playwright in fifth-century BCE Athens, Sophocles left us seven powerful dramas that still shock as they render the violence that erupts within divinity and humankind. Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Kolonos, and Antigone trace three generations of a ... Leer más

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  • Selected Letters

    de Seneca ...
    Traducido por Elaine Fantham ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'You ask what is the proper measure of wealth? The best measure is to have what is necessary, and next best, to have enough. Keep well!' The letters written by the Stoic philosopher and tragedian Seneca to his friend Lucilius are in effect moral essays, whose purpose is to reinforce Lucilius' struggle to achieve wisdom and serenity, uninfluenced by worldly emotions. Seneca advises his friend on ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • The Greek Plays

    de Ellen McLaughlin ...
    From The Persians"Defeat is impossibleDefeat is unthinkableWe have always been the favorites of fate.Fortune has cupped usIn her golden palms.It has only been a matterOf choosing our desire. Which fruitTo pick from the nodding tree."This chilling passage is from Ellen McLaughlin’s new adaptation of The Persians by Aeschylus, the earliest surviving play in Western literature, an elegy for a fallen ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • Theseus and the Minotaur

    de Brian Twiddy ...
    A short, funny play for children aged 7 - 11 years,including a craft activity relevant to the story.Theseus is sent to Crete to be sacrificed to the fearsome Minotaur. He is the greatest warrior in Greece. He always wins.But he hasn't yet met Ariadne, King Minos's beautiful daughter. When he does, will he meet his match? ... Leer más

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  • The City and the Stage

    Performance, Genre, and Gender in Plato's Laws

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $104.99 USD

  • The Usable Past

    Greek Metahistories

    Edición de K. S. Brown, Yannis Hamilakis ...
    Series series Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches
    In this volume, K.S. Brown and Yannis Hamilakis bring together scholars of history, archaeology, and anthropology to explore the located and contextual nature of historical narratives. The contributors analyze contested historic rituals, building styles, and traditions-looking through the unique lens of twentieth-century Greek identity-paying particular attention to the ways these social phenomena ... Leer más

    $42.99 USD

  • Aias

    A New Translation

    de Sophocles ...
    AIAS, translated by award-winning poet James Scully, is one of Sophocles's seven surviving works, and one of the most celebrated plays of ancient Athens.Still powerful and remarkably timely thousands of years after its creation, Aias is the moving story of a soldier returning home victorious from the Trojan War, only to discover he has lost his life’s purpose. This is Sophocles, vibrant and alive, ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

  • Alcmaeon in Corinth

    de Colin Teevan ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Plays
    Based on 20 previously untranslated fragments, this is a reconstruction of Euripides lost tragic comedy, Alcmaeon in Corinth, the third part of his final trilogy, with Bacchai and Iphigeneia in Aulis.Alcmaeon, having killed his mother, is pursued by the furies, his madness taking the form of satyriasis. When he unwittingly finds himself in bed with his daughter, he must face his children's fury ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • The Comedies, Vol. 1

    de Aristophanes ...
    Traducido por William James Hicke ...
    The so-called old comedy, of which Aristophanes is the only surviving representative, flourished at the time of the Peloponnesian War which shook Greek civilization. There is no good single modern analogue of the old comedy. It is a blend of Shakespeare's 'MidsummerA Night's Dream' with Bernard Shaw. It is extravaganza combined with the dramatic criticism of ideas and set off with occasional ... Leer más

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