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  • A Companion to Aeschylus
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    A Companion to Aeschylus

    A COMPANION TO AESCHYLUS In A Companion to Aeschylus, a team of eminent Aeschyleans and brilliant younger scholars delivers an insightful and original multi-authored examination—the first...
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  • Aeschylus and War
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    Aeschylus and War

    This volume brings together a group of interdisciplinary experts who demonstrate that Aeschylus’ Seven Against Thebes is a text of continuing relevance and value for exploring ancient, contemporary...
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  • Aeschylus' Oresteia
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    Aeschylus' Oresteia

    This is a fully revised new edition of Michael Ewans’ 1995 English translation of the Oresteia, taking into account the extensive work published on the trilogy in recent years.Accompanying this...
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    Aeschylus: Agamemnon

    This accessible edition for students brings the Agamemnon, Aeschylus' opening play in the Oresteia trilogy, to life for first-time readers. A hugely popular play in antiquity and with a rich...
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  • The Oresteia of Aeschylus
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    The Oresteia of Aeschylus

    The stories are familiar: family disharmony, mourning the loss of a loved one, vengeance, national tyranny, international war, a desire for justice. This new translation by Jeffrey Scott Bernstein,...
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    Persians and Other Plays

    A new translation by Alan H. Sommerstein of four of Aeschylus' most celebrated plays Aeschylus (525-456 BC) brought a new grandeur and epic sweep to the drama of classical Athens, raising it to the...
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  • Oresteia
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    Oresteia

    The only trilogy in Greek drama that survives from antiquity, Aeschylus' The Oresteia is translated by Robert fagles with an introduction, notes and glossary written in collaboration with W.B...
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    On Great Writing (On the Sublime)

    Celebrated for its own clarity and sublime style, this classic work of literary theory draws on the writings of Demosthenes, Plato, Sappho, Thucydides, Euripides, and Aeschylus, among others, to...
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  • The Greek Plays 2
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    The Greek Plays 2

    “If art is a public service, then McLaughlin has served her public well.” —The Hollywood ReporterEllen McLaughlin returns with a new collection of adaptations and modern reimaginings of classic Greek...
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  • Poetics
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    Poetics

    Penguin Classics relaunch A penetrating account of Greek tragedy, it demonstrates how the elements of plot, character and spectacle combine to produce 'pity and fear' - and why we derive pleasure...
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  • A Harvest of Furies
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    A Harvest of Furies

    Orrie and Emma’s family has been cursed for centuries, and as the siblings approach adulthood, the curse is starting to rear its head once again. Their father, Aggie, returns from war a stranger. His...
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  • Frogs and Other Plays
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    Frogs and Other Plays

    Revised editionThe master of ancient Greek comic drama, Aristophanes combined slapstick, humour and cheerful vulgarity with acute political observations. In The Frogs, written during the...
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  • Greek Tragedy
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    Greek Tragedy

    Bringing together the masterpieces of classical tragedy in one volume, this is the ideal single-volume introduction for theatre goers, actors, general readers, and students of Classics, English...
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  • Shropshire Lad and Other Poems
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    Shropshire Lad and Other Poems

    A wonderful collection of Housman's much-loved poetry, new to Penguin Classics A. E. Housman was one of the best-loved poets of his day, whose poems conjure up a potent and idyllic rural world...
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  • Visualising the Tragic
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    Visualising the Tragic

    Athenian tragedy of the fifth century BCE became an international and a canonical genre with remarkable rapidity. It is, therefore, a remarkable test case through which to explore how a genre becomes...
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  • A Treasury of Greek Mythology
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    A Treasury of Greek Mythology

    From fire-stealing Prometheus to scene-stealing Helen of Troy, from Jason and his golden fleece to Oedipus and his mother, this collection of classic tales from Greek mythology demonstrates the...
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  • Tragedy and the Tragic
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    Tragedy and the Tragic

    The Greeks invented tragedy; and from the age of the Greeks to the present day, tragedy has been seen to be a uniquely powerful and affecting form of art. But what makes it what it is? This...
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  • Electra and Other Plays
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    Electra and Other Plays

    A new translation by David Raeburn, with introduction and notes by Pat Easterling Sophocles' innovative plays transformed Greek myths into dramas featuring complex human characters, through which he...
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  • Complete Euripides, Volume 5 Complete Euripides, Volume 5
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    Complete Euripides, Volume 5

    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...
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  • How Greek Tragedy Works How Greek Tragedy Works
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    How Greek Tragedy Works

    How Greek Tragedy Works is a journey through the hidden meanings and dual nature of Greek tragedy, drawing on its foremost dramatists to bring about a deeper understanding of how and why to engage...
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  • Maxwell Anderson and the Classical Tradition
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    Maxwell Anderson and the Classical Tradition

    This book sheds new light on the dramatic works of the American playwright, poet, and lyricist Maxwell Anderson, assessing the pervasive influence of Greek and Roman antiquity on his plays that...
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  • Restless Dead
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    Restless Dead

    During the archaic and classical periods, Greek ideas about the dead evolved in response to changing social and cultural conditions-most notably changes associated with the development of the polis,...
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  • Understanding Greek Tragic Theatre
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    Understanding Greek Tragic Theatre

    Understanding Greek Tragic Theatre, a revised edition of Greek Tragic Theatre (1992), is intended for those interested in how Greek tragedy works. By analysing the way the plays were performed in...
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  • Staged Narrative
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    Staged Narrative

    The messenger who reports important action that has occurred offstage is a familiar inhabitant of Greek tragedy. A messenger informs us about the death of Jocasta and the blinding of Oedipus, the...
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  • The Greek Search for Wisdom The Greek Search for Wisdom
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    The Greek Search for Wisdom

    The philosopher Alfred North Whitehead once said that all of Western philosophy was "but a series of footnotes to Plato." By the same token, one could argue that all of Western civilization is but an...
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  • Psychology of Tragic Drama
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    Psychology of Tragic Drama

    First published in 1975, The Psychology of Tragic Drama offers an interpretation of some of the themes of both ancient and modern tragic drama through an investigation of the plays in the light of...
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  • Dynamics of Greek Myth
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    Dynamics of Greek Myth

    Combining structural analysis, historical enquiry, and intertextual reading, this book offers a fresh interpretation of one of antiquity’s most enduring myths, autochthony, and provides a model for...
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  • Poems of Shelley: Volume Six
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    Poems of Shelley: Volume Six

    Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) was one of the major poets of the English Romantic period. This is the final volume of a six-volume edition of The Poems of Shelley, which aims to present all of...
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  • C. P. Cavafy
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    C. P. Cavafy

    A new look at the unique poetics of C. P. Cavafy.Konstantinos P. Kavafis--known to the English-reading world as C. P. Cavafy - has been internationally recognized as an important poet and attracted...
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  • Greek Tragedy and the Modern World
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    Greek Tragedy and the Modern World

    First published in 1964, Greek Tragedy and the Modern World begins with the question what is Tragedy? Most discussion assumes some essence of Tragedy in certain plays at certain periods, and...
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  • Greek Tragedy and the Modern World
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    Greek Tragedy and the Modern World

    First published in 1964, Greek Tragedy and the Modern World begins with the question what is Tragedy? Most discussion assumes some essence of Tragedy in certain plays at certain periods, and...
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  • Revenge in Attic and Later Tragedy
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    Revenge in Attic and Later Tragedy

    Modern readings of ancient Athenian drama tend to view it as a presentation of social or moral problems, as if ancient drama showed the same realism seen on the present-day stage. Such views are...
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  • The Gift of the Nile
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    The Gift of the Nile

    The Egyptians mesmerized the ancient Greeks for scores of years. The Greek literature and art of the classical period are especially thick with representations of Egypt and Egyptians. Yet despite...
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  • Tragedy and Redress in Western Literature
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    Tragedy and Redress in Western Literature

    This book offers a unique interpretation of tragic literature in the Western tradition, deploying the method and style of Analytic philosophy. Richard Gaskin argues that tragic literature seeks to...
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