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Electra and Other Plays
A new translation by David Raeburn, with introduction and notes by Pat Easterling Sophocles' innovative plays transformed Greek myths into dramas featuring complex human characters, through which he explored profound...
The Three Theban Plays: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus
The heroic Greek dramas that have moved theatergoers and readers since the fifth century B.C. Towering over the rest of Greek tragedy, the three plays that tell the story of...
The Theban Plays
The legends surrounding the royal house of Thebes inspired Sophocles to create a powerful trilogy of mankind's struggle aginst fate. KING OEDIPUS tells of a man who brings pestilence to...
The Theban Plays
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Antigone
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...
Greek Tragedy: A Literary Study
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Provides illuminating answers to many questions: why did Sophocles develop character-drawing? How and why does it differ from that of Aeschylus? Why are some of Euripides' plots so bad and...
Greek Tragedy
Bringing together the masterpieces of classical tragedy in one volume, this is the ideal single-volume introduction for theatre goers, actors, general readers, and students of Classics, English Literature, and Drama....
Paradise
'Tempest has a gift for shattering and transcending convention.' New York Times Philoctetes lives in a cave on a desolate island: the wartime hero is now a wounded outcast. Stranded...
Poetics
Penguin Classics relaunch A penetrating account of Greek tragedy, it demonstrates how the elements of plot, character and spectacle combine to produce 'pity and fear' - and why we derive...
Poetics
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Greek Drama For The Common Reader
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Author: F. L. LucasBinding: HardbackPublished: Chatto & Windus, 1967Condition:Book: Fair, ex-libraryJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good, price clippedMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsCondition remarks: Minor damage and underlining in pencil, foxing on...
Greek Tragedy
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Author: Gilbert NorwoodBinding: HardbackPublished: Methuen & Company, 1948Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: DamagedPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerThis book examines the profound and enduring impact of Greek tragedy on Western literature and thought. It...
Secondhand Poetry, Plays & Drama Bargain Book Box SP2980
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Secondhand Poetry, Plays & Drama Bargain Book Box SP2980 Twenty-one books of poetry, drama, and literary reference — Ibsen, Shaw, Euripides, Sophocles, Lorca, Howard Barker, Edward Albee, Sheridan, Geoffrey Dutton,...
An Introduction To The Greek Theatre
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Author: Peter D. ArnottBinding: PaperbackPublished: Macmillan; St. Martin's Press, 1959Condition:Book: Good, ex-libraryJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image, remainder marks in FEPAn...
On Aristotle And Greek Tragedy
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Author: John JonesBinding: HardbackPublished: Chatto & Windus, 1971Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book provides an incisive analysis of Aristotle's theories on tragedy and their relevance...
First Democracy: The Challenge of an Ancient Idea
Americans have an unwavering faith in democracy and are ever eager to import it to nations around the world. But how democratic is our own "democracy"? If you can vote,...
Echoes of Translation: Reading Between Texts
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In a series of readings of Sophocles, Holderlin, Baudelaire, Nietzsche and Benjamin, Rainer Nagele investigates the extraordinary territory that lies not merely between texts but also between languages - in...
The Last Days of Socrates
Penguin Classics relaunch. The trial and condemnation of Socrates on charges of heresy and corrupting young minds is a defining moment in the history of Classical Athens. In tracing these...
The Theatre of War: what ancient Greek tragedies can teach us today
Classical tragedy is timelessly powerful - not only does it still move us, but it heals, too. Classical tragedy is timelessly powerful - not only does it still move us,...
Apollo Handbook Of Classical Literature: A Modern Guide To The Drama, Poetry, And Prose Of Greece And Rome, With Biographies Of Their Authors
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Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. A comprehensive reference work for students and enthusiasts of the classical world,...
The Bacchae and Other Plays
The volume that completes our new 4-book collection of Euripides plays. Through their sheer range, daring innovation, flawed but eloquent characters and intriguing plots, the plays of Euripides have shocked...
Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life
From philosopher Agnes Callard, one of today's leading public intellectuals, comes a new and vibrant understanding of Socrates, his work, and his unique approach to learning The ancient Greek philosopher...
The Trial and Death of Socrates: Four Dialogues
Among the most important and influential philosophical works in Western thought: the dialogues entitled Euthyphro, Apology, Crito and Phaedo. Translations by distinguished classical scholar Benjamin Jowett. The Dialogues of Plato...
The Last Days Of Socrates
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the crossroads of philosophy and mortality stands one of Western civilization's most enduring accounts of intellectual courage...
Conversations of Socrates
Xenophon's fascinating defence of Socratic thought After the execution of Socrates in 399 BC, a number of his followers wrote dialogues featuring him as the protagonist and, in so doing,...
Four Tragedies and Octavia
A selection of Seneca's most powerful and macabre plays Based on the legends used in Greek drama, Seneca's plays are notable for the exuberant ruthlessness with which disastrous events are...
Our Ajax
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Torn between army politics and the love of his soldiers on the front line, a legendary leader spirals out of control. Inspired by Sophocles' classical play, Our Ajax draws on...
A Shropshire Lad and Other Poems: The Collected Poems of A.E. Housman
A wonderful collection of Housman's much-loved poetry, new to Penguin Classics A. E. Housman was one of the best-loved poets of his day, whose poems conjure up a potent and...
Euripides: Iphigenia in Tauris
Euripides' Iphigenia in Tauris is the tale of how two children of Agamemnon whose lives have been blighted in youth are brought together for mutual salvation and for the healing...
Discourses and Selected Writings
New translation for Penguin Classics Epictetus, a Greek stoic and freed slave, ran a thriving philosophy school in Nicropolis in the early second century AD. His animated discussions were celebrated...
Why Socrates Died: Dispelling the Myths
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On the Shortness of Life
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have...
Remembering Socrates: Philosophical Essays
Lindsay Judson and Vassilis Karasmanis present a selection of philosophical papers by an outstanding international team of scholars, assessing the legacy and continuing relevance of Socrates' thought 2,400 years after...
Medea
A bold new translation of this shockingly modern classic work by Forward Prize-winning poet, Robin Robertson THE ACCLAIMED TRANSLATION BY ROBIN ROBERTSON (FORWARD PRIZE, MAN BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLIST 2018) Euripides'...
Eurydice Street: A Place In Athens
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Facing Down the Furies: Suicide, the Ancient Greeks, and Me
An award-winning classicist turns to Greek tragedies for the wisdom to understand the damage caused by suicide and help those who are contemplating suicide themselves "Remarkable, brave and compassionate."-Rowan Williams,...
The Republic
One of the greatest works of philosophy, political theory, and literature ever produced, Plato's Republic has shaped Western thought for thousands of years, and remains as relevant today as when...
Home Fire: WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018
_______________ WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION WINNER OF THE LONDON HELLENIC PRIZE A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, TELEGRAPH, NEW STATESMAN, EVENING STANDAND AND NEW...
Letters from a Stoic: Epistulae Morales Ad Lucilium
An enlightening collection of works by the most eloquent advocate of Stoicism It is philosophy that has the duty of protecting us ... without it no one can lead a...
Seneca: A Life
The definitive biography of ancient Rome's most powerful and colourful philosopher-politician This book traces the eventful life of Seneca, the Roman philosopher, dramatist, essayist and rhetorician of the first century...
Medea and Other Plays
Penguin Classics relaunch. That proud, impassioned soul, so ungovernable now that she has felt the sting of injustice' 'Medea', in which a spurned woman takes revenge upon her lover by...
A Treasury Of The Theatre (Three-Volume Set)
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Author: John GassnerBinding: HardbackPublished: Simon and Schuster, 1963Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsJohn Gassner’s A Treasury of the Theatre assembles a commanding three-volume anthology...