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The Temple of Jerusalem
It was destroyed nearly 2,000 years ago, and yet the Temple of Jerusalem--cultural memory, symbol, and site--remains one of the most powerful, and most contested, buildings in the …
Greek Tragedy
Agememnon is the first part of the Aeschylus's Orestian trilogy in which the leader of the Greek army returns from the Trojan war to be murdered by his treacherous wife …
Contextualizing Classics
This collection of original essays examines innovations in both the theory and practice of classical philology. The chapters address interdisciplinary methods in a variety of ways. …
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 …
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 …
Rethinking Revolutions through Ancient Greece
From the time of the Roman Empire onwards, fifth- and fourth-century Greece have been held to be the period and place in which civilization as the West knows it developed. …
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 …
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 …
How to Stage Greek Tragedy Today
From the stages of Broadway and London to university campuses, Paris, and the bourgeoning theaters of Africa, Greek tragedy remains constantly in production. This global revival, …
Victorian Culture and Classical Antiquity
How did the Victorians engage with the ancient world? Victorian Culture and Classical Antiquity is a brilliant exploration of how the ancient worlds of Greece and Rome influenced …
The Poet's Voice
‘The project of this book’, writes the author in his Preface, ‘is to investigate how poetry and the figure of the poet are represented, discussed, contested within the poetry of …