Greek Roman category: 1023 books
by Margaret Alexiou
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2002
Margaret Alexiou's The Ritual Lament in Greek Tradition, first published in 1974, has long since been established as a classic in several fields. This is the only generic and diachronic study of learned and popular lament and its socio-cultural contexts throughout Greek tradition in which a great...
The Complete Aeschylus
Volume I: The Oresteia
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in order...
The Lost Plays of Greek Tragedy (Volume 1)
Neglected Authors
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Numerous books have been written about Greek tragedy, but almost all of them are concerned with the 32 plays that still survive. This book, by contrast, concentrates on the plays that no longer exist. Hundreds of tragedies were performed in Athens and further afield during the classical period, and...
Greek Tragedy: Selected Works of Aeschylus and Sophocles
Prometheus Bound, The Persians, The Seven Against Thebes, Agamemnon, The Choephoroe, The Eumenides, Oedipus At Colonus, Antigone, Ajax, Electra
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2018
"Greek Tragedy" is meticulously edited collection of the most famous plays written by Aeschylus and Sophocles. Aeschylus (525/524 – c. 456/455 BC) was an ancient Greek tragedian. He is often described as the father of tragedy. According to Aristotle, he expanded the number of characters...
by Seneca
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (ca. 4 BCE 65 AD), known commonly as Seneca, was a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman and dramatist of the Silver Age of Latin literature. He is most noted for developing a new type of drama, the Senecan tragedy, which differed greatly from Greek tragedy. While the Greek tragedies...
The City and the Stage
Performance, Genre, and Gender in Plato's Laws
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
What role did poetry, music, song, and dance play in the social and political life of the ancient Greek city? How did philosophy respond to, position itself against, and articulate its own ambitions in relation to the poetic tradition? How did ancient philosophers theorize and envision alternatives...
The Lost Plays of Greek Tragedy (Volume 2)
Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2018
The surviving works of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides have been familiar to readers and theatregoers for centuries; but these works are far outnumbered by their lost plays. Between them these authors wrote around two hundred tragedies, the fragmentary remains of which are utterly fascinating.
In...
The Materialities of Greek Tragedy
Objects and Affect in Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
Situated within contemporary posthumanism, this volume offers theoretical and practical approaches to materiality in Greek tragedy. Established and emerging scholars explore how works of the three major Greek tragedians problematize objects and affect, providing fresh readings of some of the masterpieces...
by Euripides
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2006
The Greek Tragedy in New Translations series is based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves, or who work in collaboration with poets, can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of the great Greek writers. These new translations are more than faithful...
by Titus Maccius Plautus, Delphi Classics
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The Roman playwright Plautus wrote comedies that are the earliest Latin literary texts to have survived in their entirety. Loosely adapted from lost Greek plays, the works of Plautus helped establish a truly Roman drama in the Latin language for the first time. Delphi’s Ancient Classics series provides...
by Plautus
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2004
One of the supreme comic writers of the Roman world, Plautus (c.254-184 BC), skilfully adapted classic Greek comic models to the manners and customs of his day. This collection features a varied selection of his finest plays, from the light-hearted comedy Pseudolus, in which the lovesick Calidorus...
by Moses Hadas
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2006
In power, passion, and the brilliant display of moral conflict, the drama of ancient Greece remains unsurpassed. For this volume, Professor Hadas chose nine plays which display the diversity and grandeur of tragedy, and the critical and satiric genius of comedy, in outstanding translations of the...
by Euripides
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2015
Medea (Ancient Greek: Îήδεια, MÄdeia) is an ancient Greek tragedy composed by Euripides, based upon the myth of Jason and Medea and first produced in 431 BCE. The plot centers on the actions of Medea, a barbarian and...
by Euripides
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Euripides, along was Sophocles and Aeschylus, is responsible for the great rise of Greek tragedy. It was in the 5th Century BC, during the height of Greece's cultural bloom, that Euripides lived and worked. Of his roughly ninety-two plays, only seventeen tragedies survive. Both ridiculed and lauded during...