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Facing Down the Furies

Edith Hall

An award-winning classicist turns to Greek tragedies for the wisdom to understand the damage caused by suicide and help those who are contemplating suicide themselves

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Medea and Other Plays

Euripides

An accessible prose translation that is accompanied by a general introduction and individual prefaces to each play.

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Medea in Performance 1500-2000

Edith Hall

This book provides an exhaustive account of the performance history of Euripides’ tragedy and its various versions and adaptations from 1500 to 2000, filling some of the yawning gaps left…

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The Return of Ulysses: A Cultural History of Homer’s Odyssey

Edith Hall

Whether they focus on the bewitching song of the Sirens, his cunning escape from the cave of the terrifying one-eyed Cyclops, or the vengeful slaying of the suitors of his…

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Tony Harrison: Poet of Radical Classicism

Edith Hall

This is the first book-length study of the classicism of Tony Harrison, one of the most important contemporary poets in England and the world. It argues that his unique and…

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Aristotle’s Way: How Ancient Wisdom Can Change Your Life

Edith Hall

His deepest belief was that we can all be happy in a meaningful, sustained way - and he led by example. In this handbook to his timeless teachings, Professor Edith…

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Aristophanes in Performance 421 BC-AD 2007: Peace, Birds and Frogs

Edith Hall

This book traces the international performance history of Aristophanic comedy, and its implication in aesthetic and political controversies, from 421 BC to AD 2007. It includes Brechtian experiments in East…

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Introducing the Ancient Greeks: From Bronze Age Seafarers to Navigators of the Western Mind

Edith Hall

What made the Greeks unique in their time and why their influence lives on today.

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Introducing the Ancient Greeks: From Bronze Age Seafarers to Navigators of the Western Mind

Edith Hall

Introducing the Ancient Greeks explores what made the Greeks unique in their time and why their influence lives on today.

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Inventing the Barbarian: Greek Self-definition Through Tragedy

Edith Hall

The aim of this treatise is to explain the singular fascination ancient Greek tragedians felt for the non-Greek, barbaric world. It sets Greek drama against the historical background of the…

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The Theatrical Cast of Athens: Interactions Between Ancient Greek Drama and Society

Edith Hall

Provides an examination of ancient Greek drama, and its relationship to the society in which it was produced. By focusing on the ways in which the plays treat gender, ethnicity…

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Aristotle’s Way: Ten Ways Ancient Wisdom Can Change Your Life

Edith Hall

‘Wonderful and timely … Hugely recommended’ STEPHEN FRY What do you and an ancient philosopher have in common? This is advice that won’t go out of fashion. ‘A beguiling cross…

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Aeschylus: Persians

As the earliest surviving European drama, Persians is of incalculable interest to students of ancient literature. This edition offers facing translation, commentary and notes that focus on the visual and…

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The Ancient Greeks: Ten Ways They Shaped the Modern World

Edith Hall

They gave us democracy, philosophy, poetry, rational science, the joke. They built the Parthenon and the Library of Alexandria. But who were the ancient Greeks? And what was it that…

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Senda de Aristoteles, La

Edith Hall

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Tony Harrison: Poet of Radical Classicism

Edith Hall (University of Durham, UK)

This is the first book-length study of the classicism of Tony Harrison, one of the most important contemporary poets in England and the world. It argues that his unique and…

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The Return of Ulysses: A Cultural History of Homer’s Odyssey

Edith Hall (University of Durham, UK)

The adventures of Ulysses/Odysseus are amongst the most durable in human culture. This title explains the Homer’s epic in terms of its susceptibility to adaptation.

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The Decorative Art Of Crete In The Bronze Age

Edith Hall Dohan

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

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Excavations in Eastern Crete

Edith Hall Dohan

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Excavations in Eastern Crete: Sphoungaras (1912)

Edith Hall Dohan

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger PublishingA AcentsAcentsa A-Acentsa Acentss Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and…

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Excavations in Eastern Crete

Edith Hall Dohan

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Excavations in Eastern Crete: Vrokastro (1914)

Edith Hall Dohan

Inspires readers to achieve what they were put on the planet to do, and to become what they were meant to be. The book is a travel guide to inspiration…

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Italic Tomb-Groups in the University Museum

Edith Hall Dohan

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn…

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A People’s History of Classics: Class and Greco-Roman Antiquity in Britain and Ireland 1689 to 1939

Edith Hall,Henry Stead

A People’s History of Classics explores the influence of the classical past on the lives of working-class people, whose voices have been almost completely excluded from previous histories of classical…

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Aristophanic Humour: Theory and Practice

First published in Great Britain 2020 –Title page verso.

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A People’s History of Classics: Class and Greco-Roman Antiquity in Britain and Ireland 1689 to 1939

Edith Hall,Henry Stead

A People’s History of Classics explores the influence of the classical past on the lives of working-class people, whose voices have been almost completely excluded from previous histories of classical…

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Aristophanic Humour: Theory and Practice

First published in Great Britain 2020 –Title page verso.

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Theorising Performance: Greek Drama, Cultural History and Critical Practice

Constitutes the first analysis of the modern performance of ancient Greek drama from a theoretical perspective. This book provides the solution to different intellectual questions from staging any other canonical…

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India, Greece and Rome 1757-2007 (BICS Supplement 108)

Epitrrepontes, or ‘The Arbitration’, which Menander produced around 300 BC, tackles the modern-sounding subject of a broken marriage. Charisios has left his young wife Pamphile over a suspected infidelity and…

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Sophocles and the Greek Tragic Tradition

This book contains essays by international experts on Sophocles, asking why he matters, and why he is still read and performed today. His seven surviving tragedies are discussed from a…

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Sophocles and the Greek Tragic Tradition

This book contains essays by international experts on Sophocles, asking why he matters, and why he is still read and performed today. His seven surviving tragedies are discussed from a…

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Greek and Roman Actors: Aspects of an Ancient Profession

This series of twenty complementary essays by experts in the field explores the art, social status, reputation and image of the ancient actor in the Greek and Roman worlds, from…

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Greek and Roman Actors: Aspects of an Ancient Profession

This series of twenty complementary essays by experts in the field explores the art, social status, reputation and image of the ancient actor in the Greek and Roman worlds, from…

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The Inky Digit of Defiance: Tony Harrison: Selected Prose 1966-2016

Tony Harrison

A richly varied selection of Tony Harrison’s provocative prose, taken from 50 years of writing, in the year that the great poet of page, stage and screen turns 80.

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Aristophanes in Performance 421 BC-AD 2007: Peace, Birds and Frogs

Edith Hall,Amanda Wrigley

This book traces the international performance history of Aristophanic comedy, and its implication in aesthetic and political controversies, from 421 BC to AD 2007. It includes Brechtian experiments in East…

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Women Classical Scholars: Unsealing the Fountain from the Renaissance to Jacqueline de Romilly

This volume celebrates the women born between the Renaissance and 1913 who played significant roles in the history of classical scholarship. Synthesizing incisive case-studies with overviews of the evolution of…

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Women Classical Scholars: Unsealing the Fountain from the Renaissance to Jacqueline de Romilly

This volume celebrates the women born between the Renaissance and 1913 who played significant roles in the history of classical scholarship. Synthesizing incisive case-studies with overviews of the evolution of…

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New Directions in Ancient Pantomime

A collection of specially commissioned studies in which leading world specialists explore all aspects of the ancient pantomime dancer’s performance skills, popularity, and social impact, while paying special attention to…

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玩具城历险记: Adventures in Toyland, Chinese edition

Edith King Hall

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Adventures in Toyland

Edith King Hall

The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books…

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That Little Beggar

Edith King Hall

That Little Beggar, is a classical and a rare book, that has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha…

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Adventures in Toyland What the Marionette Told Molly

Edith King Hall

This book (hardcover) is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It contains classical literature works from over two thousand years. Most of these titles have been out of print and off…

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The Promised Land

Edith Bach Hall

THE PROMISED LAND is the story of Theodor, a Danish immigrant, who struggles to integrate into the American culture. It is his love-hate story; the awe, the wonder, the ecstasy…

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The Promised Land

Edith Bach Hall

THE PROMISED LAND is the story of Theodor, a Danish immigrant, who struggles to integrate into the American culture. It is his love-hate story; the awe, the wonder, the ecstasy…

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Aeschylus: Agamemnon

Edith Hall (Professor of Classics, King's College London)

The first revenge drama, the first great female role, the first tragedy set on the cusp between public space and private household, the first part of the only surviving tragic…

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The Decorative Art of Crete in the Bronze Age (1907)

Edith H Hall

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…

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The Decorative Art of Crete in the Bronze Age (1907)

Edith H Hall

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Facing Down the Furies

Medea and Other Plays

Medea in Performance 1500-2000

The Return of Ulysses: A Cultural History of Homer’s Odyssey

Tony Harrison: Poet of Radical Classicism

Aristotle’s Way: How Ancient Wisdom Can Change Your Life

Aristophanes in Performance 421 BC-AD 2007: Peace, Birds and Frogs

Introducing the Ancient Greeks: From Bronze Age Seafarers to Navigators of the Western Mind

Introducing the Ancient Greeks: From Bronze Age Seafarers to Navigators of the Western Mind

Inventing the Barbarian: Greek Self-definition Through Tragedy

The Theatrical Cast of Athens: Interactions Between Ancient Greek Drama and Society

Aristotle’s Way: Ten Ways Ancient Wisdom Can Change Your Life

Aeschylus: Persians

The Ancient Greeks: Ten Ways They Shaped the Modern World

Senda de Aristoteles, La

Tony Harrison: Poet of Radical Classicism

The Return of Ulysses: A Cultural History of Homer’s Odyssey

The Decorative Art Of Crete In The Bronze Age

Excavations in Eastern Crete

Excavations in Eastern Crete: Sphoungaras (1912)

Excavations in Eastern Crete

Excavations in Eastern Crete: Vrokastro (1914)

Italic Tomb-Groups in the University Museum

A People’s History of Classics: Class and Greco-Roman Antiquity in Britain and Ireland 1689 to 1939

Aristophanic Humour: Theory and Practice

A People’s History of Classics: Class and Greco-Roman Antiquity in Britain and Ireland 1689 to 1939

Aristophanic Humour: Theory and Practice

Theorising Performance: Greek Drama, Cultural History and Critical Practice

India, Greece and Rome 1757-2007 (BICS Supplement 108)

Sophocles and the Greek Tragic Tradition

Sophocles and the Greek Tragic Tradition

Greek and Roman Actors: Aspects of an Ancient Profession

Greek and Roman Actors: Aspects of an Ancient Profession

The Inky Digit of Defiance: Tony Harrison: Selected Prose 1966-2016

Aristophanes in Performance 421 BC-AD 2007: Peace, Birds and Frogs

Women Classical Scholars: Unsealing the Fountain from the Renaissance to Jacqueline de Romilly

Women Classical Scholars: Unsealing the Fountain from the Renaissance to Jacqueline de Romilly

New Directions in Ancient Pantomime

玩具城历险记: Adventures in Toyland, Chinese edition

Adventures in Toyland

That Little Beggar

Adventures in Toyland What the Marionette Told Molly

The Promised Land

The Promised Land

Aeschylus: Agamemnon

The Decorative Art of Crete in the Bronze Age (1907)

The Decorative Art of Crete in the Bronze Age (1907)

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