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Aris & Phillips

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Euripides: Alcestis
With an introduction, Translation and Commentary by D. Conacher
The theme of Euripides' Alcestis blends the primitive folk-tale of the self-sacrificing bride, Alcestis, and of Heracles' heroic struggles with the ogre Death, with a morality tale of "virtue rewarded", in this case twice rewarded. The Alcestis is the only tragedy which we know to have been produced in the position usually allotted (at the Athenian tragic festivals) to the semi-comic "satyrplay". Like a satyr-play, it has a happy ending but does ...
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Seneca: 17 Letters
with an introduction, translation and commentary by C. D. N. Costa
This edition provides a text, translation and commentary on seventeen of Seneca's letters to Lucilius, which have always been amongst Seneca's most popular works. This volume contains letters 7, 12, 24, 47, 54, 56, 57, 78, 79, 83, 88, 90, 92, 104, 110, 114 and 122. The selection aims to cover a representative range of his letters, both in length and subject matter, and offers complete unabridged letters. The commentary focuses primarily on ...
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Seneca: Four Dialogues
with an Introduction, Translation and Commentary by C. D. N. Costa
The Dialogues were an important medium for the spreading of Greek
philosophical theories to the Roman world and to subsequent ages.
This selection is of complete, not excerpted, dialogues. The
commentary concentrates on subject matter and the philosophical
ideas informing the treatises, though help is also given where
needed on grammatical and lexical points. The four chosen
dialogues give a fair idea of the range of ...
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Euripides: Phoenician Women
with translation and commentary by E. Craik
^BEuripides: Phoenician Women
with translation and commentary by E. Craik
This rich and challenging play ranges over the supreme myth of Oidipous and his doomed family. With its brooding imagery, extravagant language, ebullient rhetoric and scenic display it is quintessential Euripides. With its broad, yet unified, thematic sweep it offers important points of comparison with other Theban plays and valuable insights into late fifth ...
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Euripides: Electra
With Translation and Commentary by M. J. Cropp
King Agamemnon is long dead and his murderers rule at Argos. His son Orestes returns from exile to kill them his own mother Clytemnestra and her seducer Aegisthus. Thus he will release his sister Electra from oppression and reclaim his home and kingdom.This is the only episode from Greek legend treated in surviving plays by all three of the great Athenian tragedians of the fifth century B.C. Aeschylus in his Libation-bearers (part of the ...
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Euripides: Iphigenia in Tauris
edited with an introduction, translation and commentary by M J Cropp
Iphigenia in Tauris tells the story of the princess Iphigenia who was sacrificed by her father Agamemnon to expedite his campaign against Troy but was rescued by the goddess Artemis and transported to the land of the Taurians. There she herself must perform human sacrifices as a priestess of Artemis in the local cult. Troy has now been sacked, and Agamemnon murdered by his wife and avenged by his son Orestes. With his mother's blood on his hands, ...
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Euripides: Selected Fragmentary Plays Vol II
edited, with Introductions, Translations and Commentaries by C Collard, M J Cropp and J Gibert
The fragmentary plays of Euripides are a body of texts still regularly increasing in number and extent. They are of very great interest in themselves, apart from the significant aid they give
to the fuller appreciation of the surviving complete plays. This
two-volume edition brings together for the first time for English
readers the more substantial and important of the plays, about
fifteen in all. Each play is introduced by a ...
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Egyptian Historical Records, Fasc. 2
Cumming, B.
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Egyptian Historical Records, Fasc. 3
Cumming, B.
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Egyptian Historical Records of the Later Eighteenth Dynasty
by B Cumming and B G Davies
The basic Egyptian historical texts are translated into English for the benefit of students of the language and those who are interested in the history of the area. The translations are cross-referenced with Helck's hieroglyphic texts with ...
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