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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

    $25.19 USD

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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

    $3.99 USD

  • 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

    Was $60.99 USD Now $53.99 USD

  • 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

    $147.59 USD

  • 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

    $64.79 USD

  • 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

    $18.49 USD

  • 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

    $9.59 USD

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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

    $38.69 USD

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    by Arthur Machen ...
    Condemned by the media when it was first published, The Great God Pan is a mesmerisingly dark novella by Arthur Manchen, often regarded as one of the best horror stories ever written.The book begins with Dr. Raymond and his attempts to perform a highly dangerous experiment on a young woman named Mary so that she may make a connection to the spiritual world. His friend Clarke witnesses the ... Read more

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  • Faust Part 1

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ...
    Faust: A Tragedy (German: Faust. Eine Tragödie), or retrospectively Faust. Der Tragödie / erster Teil) is the first part of the tragic play Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and is considered by many as the greatest work of German literature. It was first published in 1808. The first part of Faust is not divided into acts, but is structured as a sequence of scenes in a variety of settings. ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Works Of Sophocles: Includes The Theban Plays (The Oedipus Cycle), Aias, Trachinian Women, Ajax, Electra And Philoktetes (Mobi Collected Works)

    by Sophocles ...
    This collection was designed for optimal navigation on eReaders and other electronic devices. This collection offers lower price, the convenience of a one-time download, and it reduces the clutter in your digital library. All books included in this collection feature a hyperlinked table of contents and footnotes. The collection is complimented by an author biography.This Collection Includes:The ... Read more

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  • The Last Days of Pompeii

    by Edward Bulwer-Lytton ...
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton was a well known English novelist in the 19th century, and he's been immortalized for coining famous phrases like "pursuit of the almighty dollar" and "the pen is mightier than the sword".This is one of his historical fictions about the destruction of the Roman city of Pompeii. ... Read more

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