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  • Choral Tragedy

    Greek Poetics and Musical Ritual

    by Claude Calame, Simon Goldhill ...
    Translated by Vanessa Casato ...
    Series series Classical Scholarship in Translation
    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 tragic chorus had its own story to tell; it was a collective identity, speaking within and to a collective citizen body, acting as an instrument through which stories of other times and places were dramatized into resonant ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • The Poetics of Eros in Ancient Greece

    by Claude Calame ...
    Translated by Janet Lloyd ...
    The Poetics of Eros in Ancient Greece offers the first comprehensive inquiry into the deity of sexual love, a power that permeated daily Greek life. Avoiding Foucault's philosophical paradigm of dominance/submission, Claude Calame uses an anthropological and linguistic approach to re-create indigenous categories of erotic love. He maintains that Eros, the joyful companion of Aphrodite, was a ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

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    by Michel Foucault, Nancy Luxon ...
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    "An invaluable book" of late-career lectures that reveal Foucault's perspective on truth, truth-telling, and the nature of discourse ( Choice).This volume collects a series of lectures given by the renowned French thinker Michel Foucault. The first part presents a talk, Parresia, delivered at the University of Grenoble in 1982. The second presents a series of lectures entitled "Discourse and Truth ... Read more

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  • Approaches to Greek Myth

    by Lowell Edmunds ...
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  • The Theory of the Sublime from Longinus to Kant

    by Robert Doran ...
    In this book, Robert Doran offers the first in-depth treatment of the major theories of the sublime, from the ancient Greek treatise On the Sublime (attributed to 'Longinus') and its reception in early modern literary theory to the philosophical accounts of Burke and Kant. Doran explains how and why the sublime became a key concept of modern thought and shows how the various theories of sublimity ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • The Emotions of the Ancient Greeks

    Studies in Aristotle and Classical Literature

    by David Konstan ...
    It is generally assumed that whatever else has changed about the human condition since the dawn of civilization, basic human emotions - love, fear, anger, envy, shame - have remained constant. David Konstan, however, argues that the emotions of the ancient Greeks were in some significant respects different from our own, and that recognizing these differences is important to understanding ancient ... Read more

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  • How Women Became Poets

    A Gender History of Greek Literature

    by Emily Hauser ...
    How the idea of the author was born in the battleground of genderWhen Sappho sang her songs, the only word that existed to describe a poet was a male one—aoidos, or “singer-man.” The most famous woman poet of ancient Greece, whose craft was one of words, had no words with which to talk about who she was and what she did. In How Women Became Poets, Emily Hauser rewrites the story of Greek ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy

    Edited by P. E. Easterling ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    As a creative medium, ancient Greek tragedy has had an extraordinarily wide influence: many of the surviving plays are still part of the theatrical repertoire, and texts like Agamemnon, Antigone, and Medea have had a profound effect on Western culture. This Companion is not a conventional introductory textbook but an attempt, by seven distinguished scholars, to present the familiar corpus in the ... Read more

    $46.99 CAD

  • Light and Darkness in Ancient Greek Myth and Religion

    by Mercedes Aguirre, Richard Buxton, Soteroula Constantinidou, Ken Dowden, Radcliffe G. Edmonds, Ariadni Gartziou-Tatti, Daniel Iakov, Efimia D. Karakantza, Françoise Létoublon, Avgi Maggel, Nanno Marinatos, Dimitris Paleothodoros, Ioanna Patera, Isabelle Ratinaud, Spyros Syropoulos, Evanthia Tsitsibakou-Vasalos, Athanassia Zografou, Richard Seaford ...
    Series series Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches
    Light and darkness played an important role beyond the division of time in ancient Greek myth and religion; the contributors to Light and Darkness in Ancient Greek Myth and Religion consider its function on both the individual and social level as manifested in modes of thought and behavior and expressed in language, beliefs, ritual, and iconography. The book is divided into five parts: color ... Read more

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  • Thalia Delighting in Song

    Essays on Ancient Greek Poetry

    by Emmet I. Robbins ...
    Emmet I. Robbins earned an international reputation as a scholar of ancient Greek poetry, possessing a broad cultural background and a command of many languages that allowed him to present sensitive and informed readings of poets from Homer to the tragedians. Thalia Delighting in Song assembles for the first time his work from 1975 through 1999, reflecting his close reading of the Greek texts and ... Read more

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  • The Lost Plays of Greek Tragedy (Volume 1)

    Neglected Authors

    by Dr Matthew Wright ...
    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 even though nearly all are lost, a certain amount is known about them through fragments and other ... Read more

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  • Aesopic Conversations

    Popular Tradition, Cultural Dialogue, and the Invention of Greek Prose

    by Leslie Kurke ...
    Series series Martin Classical Lectures
    Examining the figure of Aesop and the traditions surrounding him, Aesopic Conversations offers a portrait of what Greek popular culture might have looked like in the ancient world. What has survived from the literary record of antiquity is almost entirely the product of an elite of birth, wealth, and education, limiting our access to a fuller range of voices from the ancient past. This book, ... Read more

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