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  • Lysistrata

    Translated by Douglass Parker ...
    In Lysistrata a band of women tap into the awesome power of sex in order to end a war. ... Read more

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  • Performing Oaths in Classical Greek Drama

    Oaths were ubiquitous rituals in ancient Athenian legal, commercial, civic and international spheres. Their importance is reflected by the fact that much of surviving Greek drama features a formal oath sworn before the audience. This is the first comprehensive study of that phenomenon. The book explores how the oath can mark or structure a dramatic plot, at times compelling characters like ... Read more

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  • Myths of the Underworld in Contemporary Culture

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    Series series Classical Presences
    Myths of the Underworld in Contemporary Culture: The Backward Gaze examines a series of twentieth and twenty-first century fictional works that adapt Greco-Roman myths of the catabasis, the heroic journey to the underworld. Covering a range of genres - including novels, comics, and children's culture, by authors such as Elena Ferrante, Salman Rushdie, Neil Gaiman, A. S. Byatt, Toni Morrison, and ... Read more

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  • Classical Greek Tragedy

    Series series Forms of Drama
    Classical Greek Tragedy offers a comprehensive survey of the development of classical Greek tragedy combined with close readings of exemplary texts. Reconstructing how audiences in fifth-century BCE Athens created meaning from the performance of tragedy at the dramatic festivals sponsored by the city-state and its wealthiest citizens, it considers the context of Athenian political and legal ... Read more

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  • SAGE Handbook of Mentoring and Coaching in Education

    The knowledge base about mentoring and coaching in education has grown considerably worldwide in the last decade. The very many definitions of mentoring and coaching demand an evidence base to assist with understanding the convergence and distinctions between these concepts, and with situating them in relation to learning.This Handbook is a leading source of ideas and information. It covers ... Read more

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  • Primary Mathematics: Teaching Theory and Practice

    Series series Achieving QTS Series
    An extensive knowledge of the primary Mathematics curriculum is not enough for you as a trainee teacher, you need to know how to teach Mathematics in the primary classroom.This is the essential teaching theory and practice text for primary Mathematics that takes a focused look at the practical aspects of teaching. It covers the important skills of classroom management, planning, monitoring and ... Read more

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  • Oedipus the King

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    The famed Athenian tragedy in which Oedipus’s own faults contribute to his tragic downfall.A great masterpiece on which Aristotle based his aesthetic theory of drama in the Poetics and from which Freud derived the Oedipus complex, King Oedipus puts out a sentence on the unknown murderer of his father Laius. By a gradual unfolding of incidents, Oedipus learns that he was the assassin and that ... Read more

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  • Antigone

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