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ISBN: 9780199232512 - Greek Tragedy Greek Tragedy
Edith Hall

ISBN10: 0199232512  ISBN13: 9780199232512
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 21 Jan 2010
Edith Hall offers an introduction to Greek tragedy which argues that the essential feature of the genre is that it depicts terrible human suffering and death, but in a way that invites philosophical enquiry into their causes and effects. More

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ISBN: 9780199537174 - Antigone Bestseller Antigone
Sophocles Edith Hall

ISBN10: 0199537178  ISBN13: 9780199537174
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 14 Aug 2008
Love and loyalty, hatred and revenge, fear, deprivation, and political ambition: these are the motives which thrust the characters portrayed in these three Sophoclean masterpieces on to their collision course with catastrophe. Recognized in his... More

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ISBN: 9780198147800 - Inventing the Barbarian Inventing the Barbarian
Edith Hall

ISBN10: 0198147805  ISBN13: 9780198147800
Publisher: Oxford University Press Clarendon Press
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 11 Jul 1991
The aim of this treatise is to explain the singular fascination ancient Greek tragedians felt for the non-Greek, "barbaric" world. It sets Greek drama against the historical background of the Panhellenic wars with Persia and the establishment of... More

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ISBN: 9780199298891 - The Theatrical Cast of Athens The Theatrical Cast of Athens
Edith Hall

ISBN10: 0199298890  ISBN13: 9780199298891
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 12 Oct 2006
In this pioneering study Edith Hall explores the numerous different ways in which we can understand the relationship between the real, social world in which the Athenians lived and the theatrical roles that they invented. In twelve studies of role... More

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ISBN: 9781780762357 - The Return of Ulysses The Return of Ulysses
Edith Hall

ISBN10: 1780762356  ISBN13: 9781780762357
Publisher: I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd I.B.Tauris
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 30 Jul 2012
The adventures of Ulysses/Odysseus are amongst the most durable in human culture. This title explains the Homer's epic in terms of its susceptibility to adaptation. Whether they focus on the bewitching song of the Sirens, his cunning escape from... More

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ISBN: 9781845115753 - The Return of Ulysses The Return of Ulysses
Edith Hall

ISBN10: 1845115759  ISBN13: 9781845115753
Publisher: I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd I.B.Tauris
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 30 Jan 2008
Edith Hall explains the enduring fascination of Homer's epic in terms of its extraordinary susceptibility to adaptation. Not only has the narrative reflected a myriad of intellectual and aesthetic agendas, but it has seemed perhaps uniquely... More

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ISBN: 9780856685972 - Persians Persians
Aeschylus Edith Hall

ISBN10: 0856685976  ISBN13: 9780856685972
Publisher: Aris & Phillips Ltd
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 01 Jan 1996
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... More

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ISBN: 9780715638262 - Theorising Performance Theorising Performance
Edith Hall, Stephe Harrop

ISBN10: 0715638262  ISBN13: 9780715638262
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 22 Feb 2010
This collection constitutes the first analysis of the modern performance of ancient Greek drama from a theoretical perspective. The book will be of great interest to scholars and students of Classics and Drama like. This exciting collection... More

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ISBN: 9780715638682 - Reading Ancient Slavery Reading Ancient Slavery
Richard Alston, Edith Hall, Laura Proffitt

ISBN10: 0715638688  ISBN13: 9780715638682
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 27 Jan 2011
This volume provides a sustained discussion of the theory and practice of handling ancient poetry and images in order to enhance our understanding of the way that slavery was experienced by both slaves and their owners in the ancient world. More

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ISBN: 9780521887854 - Sophocles and the Greek Tragic Tradition Sophocles and the Greek Tragic Tradition
Simon Goldhill, Edith Hall

ISBN10: 0521887852  ISBN13: 9780521887854
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 26 Feb 2009
Thirteen essays by senior international experts on Greek tragedy take a fresh look at Sophocles' dramas. They reassess their crucial role in the creation of the tragic repertoire, in the idea of the tragic canon in antiquity, and in the making and... More