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  • Tragedy

    The Dawn of Drama in Ancient Athens

    by Oliver Taplin ...
    A major new history of the revolutionary invention of tragedy that sheds fresh and surprising light on both ancient and modern dramaWhy did tragedy come into being—and why is it still so important 2,500 years after it first arose in fifth-century Athens? Does it serve a deeper purpose beyond entertainment? And was the birth of tragedy at the same time and place as the birth of democracy more than ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

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  • Antigone and other Tragedies

    Antigone, Deianeira, Electra

    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    Sophocles stands as one of the greatest dramatists of all time, and one of the most influential on artists and thinkers over the centuries. His plays are deeply disturbing and unpredictable, unrelenting and open-ended, refusing to present firm answers to the questions of human existence, or to provide a redemptive justification of the ways of gods to men-or women. These three tragedies portray the ... Read more

    $22.39 CAD

  • Greek Tragedy in Action

    by Oliver Taplin ...
    Oliver Taplin's seminal study was revolutionary in drawing out the significance of stage action in Greek tragedy at a time when plays were often read purely as texts, rather than understood as performances.Professor Taplin explores nine plays, including Aeschylus' agamemnon and Sophocles' Oedipus the King. The details of theatrical techniques and stage directions, used by playwrights to highlight ... Read more

    $74.19 CAD

  • Agamemnon in Performance 458 BC to AD 2004

    Edited by Fiona Macintosh, Pantelis Michelakis, Edith Hall, Oliver Taplin ...
    Aeschylus' Agamemnon, the first play in the Oresteia trilogy, is one of the most influential theatrical texts in the global canon. In performance, translation, adaptation, along with sung and danced interpretations, it has been familiar in the Greek world and the Roman empire, and from the Renaissance to the contemporary stage. It has been central to the aesthetic and intellectual avant-garde as ... Read more

    $163.19 CAD

  • A Dictionary of Classical Greek Quotations

    Edited by Marinos Yeroulanos ...
    'Only god is truly wise: human wisdom is of little or no value', declaimed Plato in his Apology. And yet the ancient Greeks, including Plato himself, more than any other people of antiquity were fascinated by the pursuit of the wisdom they called philosophia. That search for knowledge involved an extensive use of maxims and quotations, as we can see from those expressions of Homer prefaced by the ... Read more

    $84.19 CAD

  • The Oresteia

    Agamemnon, Women at the Graveside, Orestes in Athens

    Translated by Oliver Taplin ...
    by Aeschylus ...
    This spellbinding, groundbreaking translation reenergizes Aeschylus’ enduring saga of split loyalties, bloody sacrifice, and the efforts to bring peace after generations of strife.The most renowned of Aeschylus’ tragedies and one of the foundational texts of Western literature, the Oresteia trilogy is about cycles of deception and brutality within the ruling family of Argos. In Agamemnon, ... Read more

    $27.39 CAD

  • Medea

    by Euripides ...
    Translated by Oliver Taplin ...
    In the centuries since it was first performed, Euripides’s Medea has established itself as one of the most influential of the Greek tragedies. The story of the wronged wife who seeks revenge against her unfaithful husband by murdering their children is lodged securely in the popular imagination, a touchstone for politics, law, and psychoanalysis and the subject of constant retellings and ... Read more

    $12.09 CAD

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  • Human Growth and Development in Children and Young People

    Theoretical and Practice Perspectives

    by Stephen Cowden, Gurnam Singh, Deborah Hadwin, Atle Ødegård, Siv E N Sæbjørnsen, Elisabeth Willumsen, Louise Oliver, Christine Cocker, Lisa Bunting, Sue Taplin, Richard Heslop, Melanie Watts, Nick Frost, Alison Rodriguez, Wilfred Mcsherry, Jo Finch, Margarete Parrish, Joanna Murray Smith ...
    Unparalleled in its coverage of concepts and themes, this textbook uses insights from across sociology, psychology, criminology and other areas of expertise to show how children and young people negotiate crucial challenges and transitions in their lives.It considers a wide range of theories, issues and practice dimensions and clearly shows how they connect, with fresh insights on topics including ... Read more

    $41.59 CAD

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  • Helen of Troy

    Beauty, Myth, Devastation

    by Ruby Blondell ...
    Ancient Greek culture is pervaded by a profound ambivalence regarding female beauty. It is an awe-inspiring, supremely desirable gift from the gods, essential to the perpetuation of a man's name through reproduction; yet it also grants women terrifying power over men, posing a threat inseparable from its allure. The myth of Helen is the central site in which the ancient Greeks expressed and ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

  • 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

    $39.99 CAD

  • Antigone

    by Sophocles ...
    Translated by Mr Don Taylor ...
    Series series Student Editions
    The gods never move faster than when punishing men with the consequences of their own actions.Desperate to gain control over a city ravaged by civil war, Creon refuses to bury the body of Antigone's rebellious brother. Outraged, she defies his edict. Creon condemns the young woman, his niece, to be buried alive. The people daren't object but the prophet Teiresias warns that this tyranny will anger ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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  • Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea

    Journeys Through Ancient Literature

    by Emily Wilson ...
    **INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"An enthralling and profoundly relevant book." —Salman Rushdie"I adored reading these joyful, illuminating, and engrossing journeys through ancient literature." —Madeline MillerMost Anticipated Books of Fall: Goodreads, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus ReviewsFrom the most celebrated translator of our time comes a visionary exploration of how translation reshapes and ... Read more

    $21.29 CAD

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