(Išleidimo metai: 28-Aug-2025, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: Liverpool University Press, ISBN-13: 9781800856080)
An Open Access edition will be available on publication on the Liverpool University Press website, thanks to funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). In the UK A-Levels and GCSEs in Classical Civilisation and Ancient...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 29-Jul-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780192858498)
This collection of 24 essays provides the first comprehensive study of the way the passing of time, temporal setting, and the relationship between past, present, and future are presented in diverse genres of ancient Greek literature over the span of...Daugiau...
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 An award-winning classicist turns to Greek tragedies for the wisdom to u...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 18-Mar-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: Yale University Press, ISBN-13: 9780300275582)
An urgent study of Homers Iliad exposing the beginnings of the ecological disaster we now face and facilitating our understanding of its history The roots of todays environmental catastrophe run deep into humanitys past. Th...Daugiau...
This Very Short Introduction introduces the life, work, and influence of one of the greatest dramatists of all time, Sophocles the Athenian, placing his plays within their historical context, and explaining the conventions of ancient Greek t...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 04-Feb-2025, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: Liverpool University Press, ISBN-13: 9781836244295)
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 trilogythe foundational status of Aeschylus monumental Agamemnon cannot b...Daugiau...
Edward Brooks, John Miles, Michael Lamb, Elleke Boehmer, Joy Connolly, Edith Hall, Noah Lopez, Alan Mittleman, Tahera Qutbuddin, Marla Frederick...
(Išleidimo metai: 02-Dec-2024, Hardback, Leidėjas: Georgetown University Press, ISBN-13: 9781647124823)
A deeply insightful approach to cultivating leaders of character centered on the arts and humanitiesWhat does it mean to lead? Whom do we consider to be leaders? And how might viewing leadership through the many lenses of the humanit...Daugiau...
A deeply insightful approach to cultivating leaders of character centered on the arts and humanitiesWhat does it mean to lead? Whom do we consider to be leaders? And how might viewing leadership through the many lenses of the humanit...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 28-Oct-2024, Hardback, Leidėjas: Liverpool University Press, ISBN-13: 9781800856288)
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 trilogythe foundational status of Aeschylus monumental Agamemnon cannot b...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 14-May-2024, Hardback, Leidėjas: Yale University Press, ISBN-13: 9780300273533)
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 In Sophocles tragedy Oedipus the Tyrant, a messenger arriv...Daugiau...
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 politically radical classicism is inextricable from his core notion that p...Daugiau...
Provides a new and broader perspective on ancient theater by focusing on its origins and development in Sicily and southern Italy, especially in connection with comedy. Examining the fragments of Epicharmus, cult traditions, vase paintings and theate...Daugiau...
This volume sets out to discuss a crucial question for ancient comedy what makes Aristophanes funny? Too often Aristophanes humour is taken for granted as merely a tool for the delivery of political and social commentary. But Greek Old Comedy w...Daugiau...
Explores Aristotles study of subjective happiness and the lasting state of contentment that he believed should be the ultimate goal of human life. In the fourth century a. C., Aristotle founds his school in Athens, a much-improved v...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 16-Sep-2021, Hardback, Leidėjas: Mint Editions, ISBN-13: 9798888972168)
Adventures in Toyland (1897) is a childrens novel by Edith King Hall. The fifth of seven relatively unknown childrens novels by Edith King Hall is a quirky, fun, and incredibly original story for children and adults alike. Reminiscent of...Daugiau...
Adventures in Toyland (1897) is a childrens novel by Edith King Hall. The fifth of seven relatively unknown childrens novels by Edith King Hall is a quirky, fun, and incredibly original story for children and adults alike. Reminiscent of...Daugiau...
Kathryn G. Bosher, Edith Hall, Clemente Marconi, LaDale Winling
(Išleidimo metai: 21-Jan-2021, Hardback, Leidėjas: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781108493871)
Studies of ancient theater have traditionally taken Athens as their creative center. In this book, however, the lens is widened to examine the origins and development of ancient drama, and particularly comedy, within a Sicilian and southern Italian c...Daugiau...
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 politically radical classicism is inextricable from his core notion that poe...Daugiau...
This volume sets out to discuss a crucial question for ancient comedy what makes Aristophanes funny? Too often Aristophanes humour is taken for granted as merely a tool for the delivery of political and social commentary. But Greek Old Comedy w...Daugiau...
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 Berlin, and musical theatre from Gilbert an...Daugiau...
A Peoples 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 scholarship and pedagogy, in Britain...Daugiau...
A Peoples 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 scholarship and pedagogy, in Britain and Ireland...Daugiau...
Women Classical Scholars: Unsealing the Fountain from the Renaissance to Jacqueline de Romilly is the first written history of the pioneering women born between the Renaissance and 1913 who played significant roles in the history of classica...Daugiau...
From renowned classicist Edith Hall, ARISTOTLES WAY is an examination of one of historys greatest philosophers, showing us how to lead happy, fulfilled, and meaningful lives Aristotle was the first philosopher to inquire into subjective happiness,...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 28-Nov-2019, Hardback, Leidėjas: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781107170599)
Combines archaeological evidence with literary analysis of key plays linked to the region to broaden the study of theatre outside fifth-century BCE Athens and allow comparison with the similarly colonial world of Southern Italy. Also offers a new rou...Daugiau...
`Wonderful and timely ... Hugely recommended STEPHEN FRYWhat do you and an ancient philosopher have in common? Aristotles way is not to apply rules - its about engaging with the texture of existence, and striding purposefully towards a life well l...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 15-Jan-2019, Hardback, Leidėjas: The Penguin Press, ISBN-13: 9780735220805)
Explores Aristotles study of subjective happiness and the lasting state of contentment that he believed should be the ultimate goal of human life. The renowned classicist and author of Introducing the Ancient Greeks explores Aristotle...Daugiau...
Serija: Miscellaneous British Academy Publications
(Išleidimo metai: 03-Jan-2019, Hardback, Leidėjas: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780197266519)
New Light on Tony Harrison was developed from a conference marking the 80th birthday of the prizewinning British poet Tony Harrison. Contributors include practising poets, playwrights, specialists in classics, theatre, translation studies, English an...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 03-May-2018, Hardback, Leidėjas: The Bodley Head Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781847924070)
Ši knyga nebeleidžiama, tačiau mes Jums pranešime naudoto egzemplioriaus kainą
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, sustained way - and he led by example. In this...Daugiau...
In this richly varied selection of Tony Harrison’s provocative prose of the last fifty years, the great poet of page, stage, and screen presents a lifetime’s thinking about art and politics, creativity, and mortality. He takes us on...Daugiau...
Greek and Roman Classics in the British Struggle for Social Reform presents an original and carefully argued case for the importance of classical ideas, education and self-education in the personal development and activities of British soci...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 27-Oct-2016, Hardback, Leidėjas: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198725206)
Women Classical Scholars: Unsealing the Fountain from the Renaissance to Jacqueline de Romilly is the first written history of the pioneering women born between the Renaissance and 1913 who played significant roles in the history of classica...Daugiau...
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 enabled them to achieve so much? This title offers a revelatory way...Daugiau...
Ši knyga nebeleidžiama, tačiau mes Jums pranešime naudoto egzemplioriaus kainą
Acclaimed classics scholar Edith Halls Introducing the Ancient Greeks is the first book to offer a synthesis of the entire ancient Greek experience, from the rise of the Mycenaean kingdoms of the sixteenth century BC to the final victory o...Daugiau...
In 16 essays from a July 2010 conference at the British Academy, classical scholars explore the presence of ancient Greece and Rome in some episodes of the struggle for reform in Britain between the French Revolution and the 1960s. The struggles were...Daugiau...
An acclaimed classics scholar dissects the mindset of the ancient Greeks, beyond their invention of democracy, theatre and philosophy, discussing how their achievements were due as much to their collective spirit of individuality as their mariners c...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 02-Apr-2015, Hardback, Leidėjas: The Bodley Head Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781847922588)
Ši knyga nebeleidžiama, tačiau mes Jums pranešime naudoto egzemplioriaus kainą
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? This indispensable introduction unveils a civilization of incomparable richness and a people of...Daugiau...
The excavation of and objects from the Late Bronze Age town of Gournia in eastern Crete is presented along with finds from other Minoan sites located nearby the Isthmus of Hierapetra--Provided by publisher. This volume presents the primary...Daugiau...
