 | Menander: The Shield (Aspis) and The Arbitration (Epitrepontes) (Classical Texts)
Release Date: February 28, 2011| ISBN-10: 0856688339 | ISBN-13: 978-0856688331'What reason has an educated man for going to the theatre, except to see Menander'? Thus the judgment of Aristophanes of Byzantium, and in later antiquity the social comedies of Menander ranked second in popularity only to the epics of Homer. Yet for centuries thereafter the plays were thought to be irretrievably lost, failing to become part of the canon of writers that generations of copyists deemed worthy of transmitting to us. It was only in the 20th century that large sections of the plays began to emerge f...
 |  | Tragic Pathos: Pity and Fear in Greek Philosophy and Tragedy
Publication Date: December 26, 2011Scholars have often focused on understanding Aristotle's poetic theory, and particularly the concept of catharsis in the Poetics, as a response to Plato's critique of pity in the Republic. However, this book shows that, while Greek thinkers all acknowledge pity and some form of fear as responses to tragedy, each assumes for the two emotions a different purpose, mode of presentation and, to a degree, understanding. This book reassesses expressions of the emotions within different tragedies and explores emotional responses to and discussions of the tragedies ...
|  | Contextualizing Classics: Ideology, Performance, Dialogue (Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches)
Publication Date: November 17, 1999| ISBN-10: 0847697339 | ISBN-13: 978-0847697335This collection of original essays examines innovations in both the theory and practice of classical philology. The chapters address interdisciplinary methods in a variety of ways. Some apply theoretical insights derived from other disciplines, such as folklore studies, performance theory, feminist criticism, and the like, to classical texts. Others examine the relationships between classics and cultural studies, popular literature, film, art history, and other related disciplines. Others, again, look to th...
|  | Oxford Readings in Menander, Plautus, and Terence (Oxford Readings in Classical Studies)
Publication Date: May 23, 2002| ISBN-10: 0198721935 | ISBN-13: 978-0198721932This book documents the origins of modern comedy by examining the evolution of "New Comedy," the Greek genre of which the works of Menander are the only surviving example. It looks at the quiet domestic dramas of Menander, the farces of Plautus, and the comedies of Terence. An authoritative Introduction sets the papers, which are by leading experts in their field, in context and explores connections between them thus examining the legacy for modern comedies. All Latin and Greek is translated. ...
|  | Judith: Lyric Drama for Soli, Chorus, and Orchestra (Classic Reprint)
Publication Date: June 23, 2012The storms of Asshur burst oer Judah shills, Their rolling thunder every vallev fills, Like rain we fall. Osend us shelter from the fiery blast, And clear the sky that death has overcast. Spread Thy strong wings oer us till storms are passed, Yea, spare us all! Oshow me. Lord, etc. Enter A chior and Assyrian Soldiers. OziAS and Chorus return. SCENE III. A chior, Hark to Holofernes, Asshur smighty chief, Captain of all armies! Give his words belief! Empty are your cisterns, Dry each spring and well. That eer gave you water: Yield, OI srael! Yield, and Holofernes...
|  | Sophocles: Philoctetes (Companions to Greek and Roman Tragedy)
Publication Date: August 30, 2005| ISBN-10: 0715633848 | ISBN-13: 978-0715633847Philoctetes is an extraordinarily timely and timeless play. Dramatising the efforts of those who had wronged him to bring the play’s hero, Philoctetes, to join the Greek forces in their war against Troy, it traces the moral and emotional development of the young Neoptolemos as he struggles between the values of honesty and deceit, honour and expedience. Hanna Roisman’s accessible companion makes Sophocles’ great play enjoyable and meaningful to modern readers who want to know more about the wor...
|  | Chaste Thinking: The Rape of Lucretia and the Birth of Humanism (Theories of Representation and Difference)
Publication Date: June 1989| Series: Theories of Representation and Difference "A strikingly original and provocative critical interpretation of the ideology of early Florentine humanism." -- Margaret W. Ferguson"... provocative, innovative, and eloquently written... " -- Rocky Mountain Review"... provocative and fascinating... " -- Seventeenth-Century News"This book is boldly and originally conceived... " -- Comparative Literature StudiesJed analyzes the historiographic myth of the rape of Lucretia and shows how its refiguration by the humanist Salutati reveals the rhetorical and ideologica...
|  | Aeschylus II: The Oresteia (The Complete Greek Tragedies)
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|  | The Oresteia (Agamemnon, The Libation-Bearers, and The Eumenides)
Publication Date: January 1, 2005The importance of Æschylus in the development of the drama is immense. Before him tragedy had consisted of the chorus and one actor; and by introducing a second actor, expanding the dramatic dialogue thus made possible, and reducing the lyrical parts, he practically created Greek tragedy as we understand it. Like other writers of his time, he acted in his own plays, and trained the chorus in their dances and songs; and he did much to give impressiveness to the performances by his development of the accessories of scene and costume on the stage. "The Ores...
| | Aristophanes' Lysistrata (Greek Commentaries Ser)
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|  | Nature, Culture, and the Origins of Greek Comedy: A Study of Animal Choruses
Publication Date: December 31, 2010Aristophanes' Birds, Wasps, and Frogs offer the best-known examples of the animal choruses of Greek comedy of the fifth century BC, but sixth-century vase-paintings of men costumed as cocks, bulls, and horses indicated that comedies were only the last phase of a longer tradition.This book suggests that although the earlier masquerades may have had ritual origins, they should be seen also as products of the culture of the archaic aristocratic symposium.The animal choruses of the late fifth century may have been conscious revivals of an earlier tradition.More...
|  | Aeschylus: Seven Against Thebes (Duckworth Comapnins to Greek and Roman Tragedy)
Publication Date: August 1, 2007| ISBN-10: 0715634666 | ISBN-13: 978-0715634660One of the earliest surviving Greek tragedies, Seven Against Thebes is an extraordinarily rich poetic text. It dramatises the civil war between the sons of Oedipus Polynices, the exile, and Eteocles, reigning king of Thebes. Polynices marches on Thebes to regain his throne along with six other champion warriors and their armies, but the expedition is doomed, and the meaning of Oedipus enigmatic curse on his sons ultimately becomes clear in their simultaneous fratricide and the extinction of the Theban house. T...
|  | SOPHOCLES: Three Tragedies: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Electra
Publication Date: December 31, 1964| ISBN-10: 0195003748 | ISBN-13: 978-0195003741Faithful as translations and vigorous and straightforward both to read and to act, these versions were written, like their originals, for immediate staage-production. Kitto has deliberately used a fairly strict meter, allowing himself no greater number of verses than Sophocles used, and where the original is formal--as in the line-by-line dialogue--the translations too are formal. The original rhythmic structure of the lyrics has been approximately represented; in the Antigone the lyric passages have been...
|  | The New Comedy of Greece and Rome
Publication Date: August 30, 1985| ISBN-10: 0521316529 | ISBN-13: 978-0521316521| Edition: First Edition In writing this book on the plays of New Comedy the author's aim is to fill a gap in the existing literature by concentrating on what one might look for in watching and reading these plays and why such an exercise might be pleasurable. The social comedy of Menander, Plautus and Terence provided a style of comic drama which was to prove the root of all subsequent western comedy. Dr Hunter gives a literary account of this drama, placing it in its ancient context and then ranging over a ...
|  | The Trojan Women: A Play by Euripides Translated from the Greek into English and Adapted in Response to Artistophanes' and Aristotle's Criticism
Publication Date: March 2002Euripides' THE TROJAN WOMEN is considered by many to bethe greatest of anti-war plays. Rubenstein, whose translation ofAGAMEMNON, has been acclaimed, has now translated Euripides'masterpiece in clear American English. Aristophanes and Aristotle (andsome modern critics as well) objected to the original prologue andchoral odes on the grounds that they were irrelevant to theplay. Rubenstein has written a prologue and choral odes that arerelevant, in addition to being lucid. In addition, Rubenstein hasadded stage directions, as he did in the case of AGAMEMNON whichenh...
|  | Mask and Performance in Greek Tragedy: From Ancient Festival to Modern Experimentation
Publication Date: September 3, 2007| ISBN-10: 0521865220 | ISBN-13: 978-0521865227| Edition: 1 Why did Greek actors in the age of Sophocles always wear masks? In this book, first published in 2007, David Wiles provided the first book-length study of this question. He surveys the evidence of vases and other monuments, arguing that they portray masks as part of a process of transformation, and that masks were never seen in the fifth century as autonomous objects. Wiles goes on to examine experiments with the mask in twentieth-century theatre, tracing a tension between the use of masks for ...
|  | Kleos in a Minor Key: The Homeric Education of a Little Prince (Hellenic Studies)
Publication Date: June 6, 2011| Series: Hellenic Studies (Book 45) As scholars have remarked, the word kleos in the Iliad and the Odyssey alike refers to something more substantive and complex than “fame” or “glory.” Kleos distinctly supposes an oral narrative—principally an “oral history,” a “life story” or ultimately an “oral tradition.” When broken down into its twin constituents, “words” and “actions” or “deeds,” a hero’s kleos serves to define him as a fully gend...
|  | Nothing Is as it Seems
Publication Date: January 1999| ISBN-10: 0847690938 | ISBN-13: 978-0847690930In this valuable book, Hanna M. Roisman provides a uniquely comprehensive look at Euripides' Hippolytus. Roisman begins with an examination of the ancient preference for the implicit style, and suggests a possible reading of Euripides' first treatment of the myth which would account for the Athenian audience's reservations about his Hippolytus Veiled. She proceeds to analyze significant scenes in the play, including Hippolytus' prayer to Artemis, Phaedra's delirium, Phaedra's 'confession' speech, and the interac...
|  | Dramatic Works of the Marquis de Sade: Vol. 1: The Comedies
Publication Date: July 25, 2000| Series: Dramatic Works of the Marquis de Sade (Book 1) This is the first time the complete plays of the Marquis de Sade have been translated into English. With introductions by the translators. ...
|  | Iphigenia Among the Taurians (Plays for Performance Series)
Publication Date: September 1, 1997| Series: Plays for Performance Series Euripides' romantic melodrama of the reunion in Tauris of Iphigenia with the brother she thought was dead abounds in situations of danger and of touching reminiscence. In Mr. Rudall's new translation it becomes beautifully playable. ...
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