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ISBN: 9780691149844 - Victorian Culture and Classical Antiquity Victorian Culture and Classical Antiquity
Simon Goldhill

ISBN10: 0691149844  ISBN13: 9780691149844
Publisher: The University Press Group Ltd Princeton University Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 18 Jul 2011
Through Victorian art, opera, and novels, this title examines how sexuality and desire, the politics of culture, and the role of religion in society were considered and debated through the Victorian obsession with antiquity. It offers insights... More

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ISBN: 9780226301310 - Freud's Couch, Scott's Buttocks, Bronte's Grave Freud's Couch, Scott's Buttocks, Bronte's Grave
Simon Goldhill

ISBN10: 0226301311  ISBN13: 9780226301310
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press University of Chicago Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 28 Oct 2011
Stratford continues to lure tourists today, as do many other sites of literary pilgrimage throughout Britain. In this title, the author makes a pilgrimage to Sir Walter Scott's baronial mansion, Wordsworth's cottage in the Lake District... More

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ISBN: 9780521315791 - Reading Greek Tragedy Reading Greek Tragedy
Simon Goldhill

ISBN10: 0521315794  ISBN13: 9780521315791
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 08 May 1986
This book is an advanced critical introduction to Greek tragedy. This book is an advanced critical introduction to Greek tragedy. It is written specifically for the reader who does not know Greek and who may be unfamiliar with the context of the... More

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ISBN: 9780674034686 - Jerusalem Jerusalem
Simon Goldhill

ISBN10: 0674034686  ISBN13: 9780674034686
Publisher: Harvard University Press The Belknap Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 20 Oct 2009
Jerusalem is the site of some of the most famous religious monuments in the world, from the Dome of the Rock to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre to the Western Wall of the Temple. This title provides a tour through the history of this image... More

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ISBN: 9780226301280 - How to Stage Greek Tragedy Today How to Stage Greek Tragedy Today
Simon Goldhill

ISBN10: 0226301281  ISBN13: 9780226301280
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press University of Chicago Press
Edition: illustrated edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 09 Nov 2007
From the stages of Broadway and London to university campuses, Paris, and the bourgeoning theaters of Africa, Greek tragedy remains constantly in production. This title explains how Aeschylus, Euripides, and Sophocles conceived their works in... More

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ISBN: 9780521011761 - Who Needs Greek? Who Needs Greek?
Simon Goldhill

ISBN10: 0521011760  ISBN13: 9780521011761
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 04 Apr 2002
Does Greek matter? To whom and why? This interdisciplinary study focuses on moments when passionate conflicts about Greek and Greekness have erupted in both the modern and the ancient worlds. It looks at the Renaissance, when men were burned at... More

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ISBN: 9780521395700 - The Poet's Voice The Poet's Voice
Simon Goldhill

ISBN10: 0521395704  ISBN13: 9780521395700
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 30 Nov 1990
"The object of this book, " writes the author in his Preface, "is to investigate how poetry and the figure of the poet are represented, discussed, contested within the poetry of ancient Greece." Dr. Goldhill seeks to discover how ancient authors... More

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ISBN: 9780521887748 - The End of Dialogue in Antiquity The End of Dialogue in Antiquity
Simon Goldhill

ISBN10: 0521887747  ISBN13: 9780521887748
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 08 Jan 2009
'Dialogue' was invented as a written form in democratic Athens and made a celebrated and popular literary and philosophical style by Plato. Yet it almost completely disappeared in the Christian empire of late antiquity. This book, the first... More

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ISBN: 9780521539814 - Aeschylus: The Oresteia Aeschylus: The Oresteia
Simon Goldhill

ISBN10: 0521539811  ISBN13: 9780521539814
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 19 Jan 2004
Simon Goldhill focuses on the play's themes - justice, sexual politics, violence, and the role of man in ancient Greek culture - in this general introduction to Aeschylus' Oresteia, one of the most important and influential of all Greek dramas. More

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ISBN: 9780226301273 - How to Stage Greek Tragedy Today How to Stage Greek Tragedy Today
Simon Goldhill

ISBN10: 0226301273  ISBN13: 9780226301273
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press University of Chicago Press
Edition: illustrated edition
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 07 Mar 2008
From the stages of Broadway and London to university campuses, Paris, and the bourgeoning theaters of Africa, Greek tragedy remains constantly in production. This book highlights both the promise and the pitfalls of staging ancient masterpieces in... More