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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 …
Reading Greek Tragedy
Preposterous Poetics
How does literary form change as Christianity and rabbinic Judaism take shape? What is the impact of literary tradition and the new pressures of religious thinking? Tracing a …
Victorian Engagements with the Bible and Antiquity
The nineteenth century was a period in which ideas of history and time were challenged as never before. This is the first book to explore how the study of classical antiquity and …
Who Needs Greek?
Does Greek matter? To whom and why? This interdisciplinary study focuses on moments when passionate conflicts about Greek and Greek-ness have erupted in both the modern and the …
The Buried Life of Things
Simon Goldhill offers a fresh and exciting perspective on how the Victorians used material culture to express their sense of the past in an age of progress, especially the biblical …
Sophocles and the Greek Tragic Tradition
This book contains thirteen essays by senior international experts on Greek tragedy looking at Sophocles' dramas. They reassess their crucial role in the creation of the tragic …
Language, Sexuality, Narrative
A close reading of the text concentrating on the developing meanings of words within the structuring of the play.
Aeschylus: The Oresteia
This is a general introduction in English to Aeschylus's Oresteia.
Language, Sexuality, Narrative
This book is concerned with the complexity and difficulty of reading the Oresteia. It is not a traditional commentary, although it is often concerned with problems of …
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 …
Choral Tragedy
Ever since Aristotle opened the discussion on the role of the chorus in Greek tragedy, theories of the chorus have continued to proliferate and provoke debate to this day. The …