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Akhnaton, a pharaoh of the eighteenth dynasty, is about to challenge everything his people and culture hold dear in The Last Pharaoh.... Asses, asses, and more asses! This new edition of Plautus' rumbustious comedy provides the complete original Latin text, witty scholarly...
Political by its very nature, Greek tragedy reflects on how life should be lived in the polis, and especially the polis that was... This book offers a comprehensive examination of the language of Roman comedy in general and that of Terence in particular. The study...
This is the only general introduction in English to Aeschylus' Oresteia, one of the most important and most influential of all Greek... In considering the practice and theory of translating Classical Greek plays into English from a theatrical perspective, Found in...
Taking a fresh look at mistaken identity in the work of an author who helped to introduce the device to comedy, Professor Traill shows... This book provides a new interpretation of the nature of Old Comedy and its place at the heart of Athenian democratic politics. Professor...
This book provides a brief and accessible introduction to Greek tragedy for students and general readers alike. Whether readers are... By looking at 15th/16th realistic noh and Greek tragedies through the lens of Aristotle and of each other, this comparison reveals a...
The Classical Moment is a reexamination of the concept of a supreme moment in the literatures of Greece, Mesopotamia, India, China,... Una lectura imprescindible, amena, divertida, punzante y reveladora, es la que siempre proporciona este clásico de la Literatura...
<P>Emphasizing the political nature of Greek tragedy, as theatre of, by and for the <i>polis</i>, Rush Rehm... Books for All Kinds of Readers. ReadHowYouWant offers the widest selection of on-demand, accessible format editions on the market today....
One of the greatest, most moving of all tragedies, Antigone continues to have meaning for us because of its depiction of the struggle... Aristophanes' play, Lysistrata, takes place toward the end of the Peloponnesian War and centers on the lives of the soldiers'...
A rollicking attack on war-makers, the farmer-hero makes his famous trip to heaven on a dung beetle to discuss the issues with Zeus. The story of ‘Plutus’ concerns Chremylus, a poor but just man, who accompanied by his body-servant Cario, consults the...
Writing at the time of political and social crisis in Athens, Aristophanes was an eloquent yet bawdy challenger to the demagogue and the... Visiting the underworld, the god Dionysus seeks the counsel of the dead tragedians Aeschylus and Euripides on how to bring good writing...
Medea is an ancient Greek tragedy written by Euripides, based upon the myth of Jason and Medea and first produced in 431 BC. The plot... "The Alcestis would hardly confirm its author's right to be acclaimed 'the most tragic of the poets.' It is doubtful...
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