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Adventures with Iphigenia in Tauris - A Cultural History of Euripides' Black Sea Tragedy by Edith Hall
Category: History | Series: Onassis Series in Hellenic Culture Ser.
Human sacrifice, a spirited heroine, a quest ending in a hairsbreadth escape, the touching reunion of long-lost siblings, and exquisite poetry--these features have historically made Euripides' Iphigenia in Tauris one of the most influential of Greek tragedies. Yet, despite its influence and popularity i ...Show more
Aeschylus - Persians by Aeschylus; Edith Hall (Edited and Translated by)
Category: History | Series: Aris and Phillips Classical Texts
A ghost summoned with bizarre rituals from the underworld, the elaborate protocol of the Persian court, a thrilling eye-witness account of the battle of Salamis - as the earliest surviving European drama it is of incalculable interest for students of ancient literature: as the only extendedaccount of th ...Show more
Aristotle's Way by Edith Hall
Category: Philosophy and Religion
'Wonderful and timely a Hugely recommended' STEPHEN FRY What do you and an ancient philosopher have in common? It turns out much more than you might thinka Aristotle was an extraordinary thinker, perhaps the greatest in history. Yet he was preoccupied by an ordinary question- how to be happy. His deepe ...Show more
Aristotle's Way: How Ancient Wisdom Can Change Your Life by HALL EDITH
Category: Philosophy and Religion
Aristotle's Way: How Ancient Wisdom Can Change Your Life by Edith Hall
Category: Philosophy and Religion
'Wonderful and timely ... Hugely recommended' STEPHEN FRYWhat do you and an ancient philosopher have in common? It turns out much more than you might think...Aristotle was an extraordinary thinker, perhaps the greatest in history. Yet he was preoccupied by an ordinary question- how to be happy. His deep ...Show more
Aristotle's WayHow Ancient Wisdom Can Change Your Life by Edith Hall
Category: Reference
What do you and an ancient philosopher have in common? It turns out much more than you might think... Aristotle was an extraordinary thinker, perhaps the greatest in history. Yet he was preoccupied by an ordinary question: how to be happy. His deepest belief was that we can all be happy in a meaningful ...Show more
Bacchae and Other Plays - Iphigenia among the Taurians; Bacchae; Iphigenia at Aulis; Rhesus by Edith Hall (Introduction by); James Morwood (Edited and Translated by); Euripides
Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
The four plays newly translated for this volume are among Euripides most exciting works. Iphigenia among the Taurians is a story of escape contrasting Greek and barbarian civilization, set on the Black Sea at the edge of the known world. Bacchae, a profound exploration of the human psyche, deals with th ...Show more
Facing down the Furies - Suicide, the Ancient Greeks, and Me by Edith Hall
Category: Biography
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
Heracles and Other Plays by Eurípides (Editor); Robin Waterfield (Translator); Edith Hall (Other); James Morwood (Other)
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: World's Classics Ser.
Euripides wrote about timeless themes, of friendship and enmity, hope and despair, duty and betrayal. The first three plays in this volume are imbued with an atmosphere of violence, while the fourth, Cyclops, is our only surviving example of a genuine satyr play, with all the crude and slapstick humor t ...Show more
Introducing the Ancient Greeks by Edith Hall
Category: History
Who were the ancient Greeks? They gave us democracy, philosophy, poetry, rational science, the joke. But what was it that enabled them to achieve so much? The ancient Greeks were a geographically disparate people whose civilization lasted over twenty centuries - and that made us who we are today. And he ...Show more
Introducing the Ancient Greeks : From Bronze Age Seafarers to Navigators of the Western Mind by Edith Hall
Category: History
The ancient Greeks invented democracy, theater, rational science, and philosophy. They built the Parthenon and the Library of Alexandria. They wrote down the timeless myths of Odysseus and Oedipus, and the histories of Leonidas's three hundred Spartans and Alexander the Great. But understanding these un ...Show more
Introducing the Ancient Greeks: From Bronze Age Seafarers to Navigators of the Western Mind by Edith Hall
Category: History
The ancient Greeks invented democracy, theater, rational science, and philosophy. They built the Parthenon and the Library of Alexandria. They wrote down the timeless myths of Odysseus and Oedipus, and the histories of Leonidas's three hundred Spartans and Alexander the Great. But understanding these un ...Show more