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Sophocles and the Language of Tragedy
Written by one of the best-known interpreters of classical literature today, Sophocles and the Language of Tragedy presents a revolutionary take on the work of this great classical …
Reading Greek Tragedy
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 …
Performance Culture and Athenian Democracy
The specially-commissioned essays in this 1999 book discuss the ways in which performance is central to the practice and ideology of democracy in classical Athens. From theatre to …
Being Urban
In Being Urban, Simon Goldhill and his team of outstanding urbanists explore the meaning of the urban condition, with particular reference to the Middle East. As Goldhill explains …
The End of Dialogue in Antiquity
'Dialogue' was invented as a written form in democratic Athens and made a celebrated and popular literary and philosophical style by Plato. Yet it almost completely disappeared in …
Classical Philology and Theology
Modern disciplinary silos tend to separate the fields of classical philology and theology. This collection of essays, however, explores for the first time the deep and significant …
What Is a Jewish Classicist?
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 …
Christian Invention of Time
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 …
Victorian Engagements with the Bible and Antiquity
Freud's Couch, Scott's Buttocks, Brontë's Grave
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 …
Aeschylus: The Oresteia
This is the only general introduction in English to Aeschylus' Oresteia, one of the most important and most influential of all Greek dramas. It discusses the Greek drama festival …
Foucault's Virginity
The sexy, witty and often bizarre novels, poetry and dialogues of the first centuries of this era (works such as Longus’ Daphnis and Chloe, Achilles Tatius’ Leukippe and Cleitophon …