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Antigone; Oedipus the King; Electra
Love and loyalty, hatred and revenge, fear, deprivation, and political ambition: these are the motives which thrust the characters portrayed in these three Sophoclean masterpieces …
Introducing the Ancient Greeks: From Bronze Age Seafarers to Navigators of the Western Mind
The ancient Greeks invented democracy, theater, rational science, and philosophy. They built the Parthenon and the Library of Alexandria. Yet this accomplished people never formed …
Bacchae and Other Plays
Iphigenia among the Taurians Bacchae Iphigenia at Aulis Rhesus The four plays newly translated in this volume are among Euripides' most exciting works. Iphigenia among the …
Ancient Greeks
They gave us democracy, philosophy, poetry, rational science, the joke. They built the Parthenon and the Library of Alexandria. But who were the ancient Greeks? And what was it …
Aristotleâ??s Way
ââ?¬Ë?Wonderful and timely ââ?¬Â¦ Hugely recommendedââ?¬â?¢ STEPHEN FRYWhat do you and an ancient philosopher have in common? This is advice that wonââ?¬â?¢t go out of fashion. …
Summer Stories
Our box Summer Stories contains four heartening short stories by some of literature´s most beloved authors. Discover tales of love and joy, festivities and sorrow, interwoven with …
Introducing the Ancient Greeks
The ancient Greeks invented democracy, theater, rational science, and philosophy. They built the Parthenon and the Library of Alexandria. They wrote down the timeless myths of …
The Quicksand
Mrs. Quentin sank down on the bench and reached a hand to the girl. “Sit by me,” she said. Miss Fenno dropped beside her. In both women the stress of emotion was too strong for …
The Trojan Women and Other Plays
Hecuba The Trojan Women Andromache In the three great war plays contained in this volume Euripides subjects the sufferings of Troy's survivors to a harrowing examination. The …
Medea and Other Plays
`the most tragic of the poets' Aristotle Euripides was one of the most popular and controversial of all Greek tragedians, and his plays are marked by an independence of thought, …
Cultural Responses to the Persian Wars
Cultural Responses to the Persian Wars addresses the huge impact on subsequent culture made by the wars fought between ancient Persia and Greece in the early fifth century BC. It …
Facing Down the Furies
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 In …