Language & Literature

ISBN: 9780956838131
Published by : Cambridge Philological Society
Series: Cambridge Classical Journal Supplement
Volume: 38
Sir Richard Jebb (1841–1905) was the most celebrated classical scholar in late Victorian Britain: his edition of Sophocles, which remains a classic, brought him a knighthood. Professor of Greek at Cambridge from 1889, and MP... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781900755351
Published by : Legenda
Series: Legenda Main Series
The extensive performance history of Euripides' Medea since the Renaissance underscores its lasting social and political relevance. Here, papers drawn from an interdisciplinary colloquium hosted at Somerville College by the University of Oxfo... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781908343697
Published by : Aris & Phillips
Series: Classical Texts
King Agamemnon is long dead and his killers rule at Argos. Orestes returns from exile to avenge his father by killing his mother Clytemnestra and her seducer Aegisthus. His vengeance will release his sister Electra from oppression... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783805345958
Published by : Philipp von Zabern
Series: AW- Sonderband
Archaeology seen by the view of a poet - Poems by famous authors such as Gottfried Benn, Rose Ausländer or Durs Grünbein in context with essays and magnificent photos by renowned Magnum-Photographers offer new perspectives and fascinating approach... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781905125562
Published by : Classical Press of Wales
In the Ancient World death came – on average - at a far earlier age than in today’s West, and without the authoritative warnings given by modern medicine. Consolation for the trauma of loss had, accordingly, a more pro... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780956838124
Published by : Cambridge Philological Society
Series: Cambridge Classical Journal Supplementary
Volume: 37
Colin Austin, Professor of Greek at Cambridge University 1998–2008, was one of the world’s foremost experts in the reconstruction and interpretation of Greek comedy. When he died in August 2010, he was working towards ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783515102261
Published by : Franz Steiner Verlag
Series: Heidelberger Althistorische Beiträge und Epigraphische Studien (HABES)
Volume: 52
This volume presents the first results of research conducted on 'The Social and Cultural Construction of Emotions: The Greek Paradigm' by a research group in Oxford funded by the European Research Council. The project aims at contributing to a bet... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783515103367
Published by : Franz Steiner Verlag
Series: Palingenesia. Schriftenreihe für Klassische Altertumswissenschaft
Volume: 100
This is the first full-scale commentary on Aristotle's de Caelo III to appear in recent decades. de Caelo III can serve as a good introduction to Aristotle's physics and its character. In it he answers some very general questions about the element... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781905125579
Published by : Classical Press of Wales
Eight leading contemporary interpreters of Classical Greek tragedy here explore its relation to the thought of the Archaic Period. Prominent topics are the nature and possibility of divine justice; the influence of the gods on hum... .... Learn More