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Classical World eBook Series

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  • The Plays of Euripides

    by James Morwood ...
    Series series Classical World
    Over the past decades there has been something of a revolution in the way we view classical drama generally and Euripides in particular. This book, updated in a second edition, reflects that revolution and aims to show how Euripides was continually reinventing himself. A truly Protean figure, he seems to set out on a new journey in each of his surviving 19 plays. Between general introduction and ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

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  • The Bhagavad Gita

    by Eknath Easwaran ...
    Series Book 1 - Easwaran's Classics of Indian Spirituality
    The Bhagavad Gita is the best known of all the Indian scriptures, and Eknath Easwaran’s best-selling translation is reliable, readable, and profound.Easwaran's 55-page introduction places the Bhagavad Gita in its historical setting, and brings out the universality and timelessness of its teachings. Chapter introductions clarify key concepts, and notes and a glossary explain Sanskrit terms.Easwaran ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Three Theban Plays

    Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus

    by Sophocles, Bernard Knox ...
    Translated by Robert Fagles ...
    The heroic Greek dramas that have moved theatergoers and readers since the fifth century B.C.Towering over the rest of Greek tragedy, the three plays that tell the story of the fated Theban royal family—Antigone, Oedipus the King and *Oedipus at Colonus—*are among the most enduring and timeless dramas ever written. Robert Fagles's authoritative and acclaimed translation conveys all of Sophocles's ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Classical Literature

    A Very Short Introduction

    by William Allan ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    From popular histories through to reworkings of classical subject matter by contemporary poets, dramatists, and novelists, the classical world and the masterpieces of its literature continue to fascinate readers and audiences in a huge variety of media. In this Very Short Introduction, William Allan explores what the 'classics' are and why they continue to shape our Western concepts of literature. ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • English Mystery Plays

    Edited by Peter Happe ...
    Humour, pathos and suffering, and the culminating drama of the Crucifixion and Resurrection, give these plays a wonderful immediacy. Their action was conceived on a cosmic scale and all the enthusiasm and vitality of their writing is retained to this day. The energies of whole communities, notably at Chester, York and Wakefield, were devoted to their production and they were to influence later ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The Comedies

    by Terence, Peter Brown ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'I thought you'd do what the common run of slaves normally do, cheating and tricking me because my son's having an affair.' Terence's comedies have provided plots and characters for comic drama from classical times to the present; the outstanding comic playwright of his generation at Rome, he has influenced authors from Molière and Wycherley to P. G. Wodehouse. Scheming slaves, parasites, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Aristotle

    Poetics

    by Aristotle ...
    Translated by S. H. Butcher ...
    A timeless cornerstone of literary criticism, Aristotle: Poetics delves into the essence of what he termed 'poetry,' encompassing lyric, epic, and drama. With precision, Aristotle dissects the art form through its foundational principles, exploring its genres, structural elements, and their emotive power.His profound analysis of tragedy forms the heart of this work, providing enduring insights ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Sappho

    A New Translation of the Complete Works

    by Diane J. Rayor ...
    Sappho, the earliest and most famous Greek woman poet, sang her songs around 600 BCE on the island of Lesbos. Of the little that survives from the approximately nine papyrus scrolls collected in antiquity, all is translated here: substantial poems, fragments, single words - and, notably, five stanzas of a poem that came to light in 2014. Also included are new additions to five fragments from the ... Read more

    $104.99 USD

  • The Plays of Sophocles

    by Professor A. F. Garvie ...
    Series series Classical World
    The emphasis throughout this book, ideal for sixth form and early university students, is on Sophocles' tragic thinking, on the concept of the 'Sophoclean hero', and on the dramatic structure of the plays. The seven extant plays, Ajax, Women of Trachis, Antigone, Oedipus the King, Electra, Philoctetes and Oedipus at Colonus are assessed and a brief concluding chapter draws together what has been ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • OCR Anthology for Classical Greek AS and A Level

    The OCR-endorsed publication from Bloomsbury for the Greek AS and A-Level set text prescriptions for examination in 2017-2019, giving full Greek text, commentary and vocabulary and a detailed introduction for each text that also covers the prescription to be read in English for A Level. The texts covered are:ASThucydides, Histories, Book IV: 11–14, 21–23, 26–28Plato, Apology, 18a7 to 24b2Homer, ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Landscape and the Spaces of Metaphor in Ancient Literary Theory and Criticism

    by Nancy Worman ...
    This study explores a previously uncharted area of ancient literary theory and criticism: the ancient landscapes (such as the Ilissus river in Athens and Mount Helicon) that generate metaphors for distinguishing styles, which dovetail with ancient conceptions of metaphor as itself spatial and mobile. Ancient writers most often coordinate stylistic features with country settings, where ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Greek Fragments in Postmodern Frames

    Rewriting Tragedy 1970-2005

    by Eleftheria Ioannidou ...
    Series series Classical Presences
    Greek Fragments in Postmodern Frames takes as its subject adaptation of Greek tragedy in the last decades, arguing that rewritings of Greek tragic texts in this period can be used as a tool to uncover a significant dialogue with postmodernism. Despite the large number of staged and written adaptations of Greek tragic texts in recent years, the idea still persists that tragedy is incompatible with ... Read more

    $97.99 USD