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  • Homer and the Dual Model of the Tragic

    by Yoav Rinon ...
    Homer and the Dual Model of the Tragic interprets both of Homer's epics as demonstrating a sense of "the Tragic." While this view of human experience and society is customarily linked with Greek tragedy rather than epic, Rinon uses close readings of the texts to argue persuasively that both The Iliad and The Odyssey present a view of pathos interwoven with the knowledge that it is unavoidable and ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

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  • Antigone

    by Sophocles, Reginald Gibbons, Charles Segal ...
    Series series Greek Tragedy in New Translations
    Oedipus, the former ruler of Thebes, has died. Now, when his young daughter Antigone defies her uncle, Kreon, the new ruler, because he has prohibited the burial of her dead brother, she and he enact a primal conflict between young and old, woman and man, individual and ruler, family and state, courageous and self-sacrificing reverence for the gods of the earth and perhaps self-serving allegiance ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • A Guide to The Odyssey

    A Commentary on the English Translation of Robert Fitzgerald

    by Ralph Hexter ...
    For those of us who know and love the incomparable Odyssey of Homer (and there are many), Dr. Hexter has created a valuable, detailed analysis, taking into account many of Homer's most fascinating subtleties. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Homer

    by Barbara Graziosi ...
    Homer's mythological tales of war and homecoming, the Iliad and the Odyssey, are considered to be two of the most influential works in the history of Western literature. Yet their author, 'the greatest poet that ever lived' is something of a mystery. By the 6th century BCE, Homer had already become a mythical figure, and even today the debate continues as to whether he ever existed. Barbara ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Homer

    Edited by Robert Fowler ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Homer is a guide to the essential aspects of Homeric criticism and scholarship, including the reception of the poems in ancient and modern times. Written by an international team of scholars, it is intended to be the first port of call for students at all levels, with introductions to important subjects and suggestions for further exploration. Alongside traditional ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • The Bacchae of Euripides

    A New Version

    by C. K. Williams ...
    From the renowned contemporary American poet comes this fluent and accessible version of The Bacchae , the great tragedy by Euripides.Includes an introduction by Martha Nussbaum"This new version of The Bacchae should allow English readers to appreciate some of the rich qualities of Euripides' masterpiece. C. K. Williams handles the spoken poetry of the original in a flexible verse that en... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Looking at Bacchae

    Edited by David Stuttard ...
    Bacchae is one of the most troubling yet intriguing of Greek tragedies. Written during Euripides' self-imposed exile in Macedonia, it tells of the brutal murder and dismemberment of Pentheus by his mother and aunts who, driven temporarily insane, have joined the Bacchae (devotees of the god Dionysus, or Bacchus). The startling plot, driven by Dionysus' desire to punish his family for refusing to ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Achilles

    by Marta González González ...
    Series series Gods and Heroes of the Ancient World
    Achilles is the quintessential Greek hero, but that does not mean that he is a conventional hero. His uniqueness is dictated by his birth, as the son of a sea goddess, and his education at the hands of a centaur. The hero’s exceptional nature also forms part of the tension that both unites and opposes him to Apollo.Achilles presents the different episodes in the life of this hero conventionally, ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Becoming Achilles

    Child-sacrifice, War, and Misrule in the lliad and Beyond

    by Richard Kerr Holway ...
    Series series Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches
    Viewing the Iliad and myth through the lens of modern psychology, in Becoming Achilles: Child-Sacrifice, War, and Misrule in the Iliad and Beyond,Richard Holway shows how the epic underwrites individual and communal catharsis and denial. Sacrificial childrearing generates but also threatens agonistic, glory-seeking ancient Greek cultures. Not only aggression but knowledge of sacrificial parenting ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Female Acts in Greek Tragedy

    by Helene P. Foley ...
    Series series Martin Classical Lectures
    Although Classical Athenian ideology did not permit women to exercise legal, economic, and social autonomy, the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides often represent them as influential social and moral forces in their own right. Scholars have struggled to explain this seeming contradiction. Helene Foley shows how Greek tragedy uses gender relations to explore specific issues in the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Reading the Odyssey

    A Guide to Homer’s Narrative

    by Jonas Grethlein ...
    Translated by Sabrina Stolfa ...
    A fresh and original introduction to the Odyssey—and how it continues to shape literature, film, art and even the ways we make sense of our livesReading the Odyssey is an introduction to Homer’s masterpiece like no other. It combines a cultural and intellectual history of the epic with an in-depth exploration of its unique and influential narrative structure and the ways it continues to inform ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Greek Heroes in and out of Hades

    by Stamatia Dova ...
    Series series Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches
    Greek Heroes in and out of Hades is a study on heroism and mortality from Homer to Plato. In a collection of thirty enjoyable essays, Stamatia Dova combines intertextual research and thought-provoking analysis to shed new light on concepts of the hero in the Iliad and the Odyssey, Bacchylides 5, Plato's Symposium, and Euripides' Alcestis.Through systematic readings of a wide range of seemingly ... Read more

    $47.99 USD