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  | | Aristotle's Way(Reprint) How Ancient Wisdom Can Change Your Life by Edith Hall Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2020 by Penguin Books ISBN-13: 978-0-7352-2082-9, ISBN: 0-7352-2082-4 "From renowned classicist Edith Hall, ARISTOTLE'S WAY is an examination of one of history's greatest philosophers, showing us how to lead happy, fulfilled, and meaningful livesTwo thousand years ago, Aristotle wrote the most important book on happiness. The first philosopher to inquire into subjective happiness, he understood its essence better and more clearly than anyone since. Most importantly, Aristotle understood happiness as availa ..." |
 | | Antigone, Oedipus the King, Electra(Reprint) (Oxford World's Classics) by Edith Hall, 2014 Jan 01, Sophocles Sophocles, Edith Sophokles /. Hall, Oxford Univ Pr Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2009 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-953717-4, ISBN: 0-19-953717-8 "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 own day as perhaps the greatest of the Greek tragedians, Sophocles' reputation has remained undimmed for two and a half thousand years. His greatest innovation in the tragic medium was his deve ..." |
 | | Greek Tragedy Suffering under the Sun by Research Professor Edith Hall Hardcover, 432 Pages, Published 2010 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-923251-2, ISBN: 0-19-923251-2 "This is an invaluable introduction to ancient Greek tragedy which discusses every surviving play in detail and provides all the background information necessary for understanding the context and content of the plays. Edith Hall argues that the essential feature of the genre is that it always depicts terrible human suffering and death, but in a way that invites philosophical enquiry into their causes and effects, This enquiry was played ..." |
 | | Adventures with Iphigenia in Tauris(1st Edition) A Cultural History of Euripides' Black Sea Tragedy (Onassis Series in Hellenic Culture) by Edith Hall Hardcover, 416 Pages, Published 2012 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-539289-0, ISBN: 0-19-539289-2 "Human sacrifice, a spirited heroine, a quest ending in a hairsbreadth escape, the touching reunion of long-lost siblings, and exquisite poetry--these features have historically made Euripides' Iphigenia in Tauris one of the most influential of Greek tragedies. Yet, despite its influence and popularity in the ancient world, the play remains curiously under-investigated in both mainstream cultural studies and more specialized scholarship ..." |
 | | The Return of Ulysses(1st Edition) A Cultural History of Homer's Odyssey by Edith Hall Hardcover, 304 Pages, Published 2008 by Johns Hopkins University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8018-8869-4, ISBN: 0-8018-8869-7 "2009 Outstanding Academic Title, ChoiceThis broadly conceived and enlightening look at how Homer’s Odyssey has resonated in the West offers a thematic analysis of the poem’s impact on social and political ideas, institutions, and mores from the ancient world through the present day. Proving that the epic poem is timeless, Edith Hall identifies fifteen key themes in the Odyssey and uses them to illustrate the extensive and diverse effect ..." |
 | | Inventing the Barbarian(Updated) Greek Self-Definition through Tragedy (Oxford Classical Monographs) by Edith Hall, Nancy Coffelt, New Hall, University Of Cambridge Paperback, 296 Pages, Published 1989 by Clarendon Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-814780-0, ISBN: 0-19-814780-5 "Incest, polygamy, murder, sacrilege, impalement, castration, female power, and despotism are some of the images used by Athenian tragedians to define the non-Greek, "barbarian" world. This book explains for the first time the reasons behind their singular fascination with barbarians. Edith Hall sets the Greek plays against the historical background of the Panhellenic wars, and the establishment of an Athenian empire based on democracy ..." |
 | | Introducing the Ancient Greeks(1st Edition) From Bronze Age Seafarers to Navigators of the Western Mind by Edith Hall Hardcover, 336 Pages, Published 2014 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-23998-0, ISBN: 0-393-23998-5 "What made the Greeks unique in their time and why their influence lives on today. The ancient Greeks invented democracy, theater, rational science, and philosophy. They built the Parthenon and the Library of Alexandria. They wrote down the timeless myths of Odysseus and Oedipus, and the histories of Leonidas’s three hundred Spartans and Alexander the Great. But understanding these uniquely influential people has been hampered by their d ..." |
 | | Antigone, Oedipus the King, Electra(Updated) (Oxford World's Classics) by Edith Hall, H. D. Kitto, Kitto Sophocles Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 1998 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-283588-8, ISBN: 0-19-283588-2 "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 own day as perhaps the greatest of the Greek tragedians, Sophocles' reputation has remained undimmed for two and a half thousand years. His greatest innovation in the tragic medium was his deve ..." |
 | | Introducing the Ancient Greeks(1st Edition) From Bronze Age Seafarers to Navigators of the Western Mind by Research Professor Edith Hall Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 2015 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-35116-3, ISBN: 0-393-35116-5 "“Wonderful . . . a thoughtful discussion of what made [the Greeks] so important, in their own time and in ours.”―Natalie Haynes, Independent The ancient Greeks invented democracy, theater, rational science, and philosophy. They built the Parthenon and the Library of Alexandria. They wrote down the timeless myths of Odysseus and Oedipus, and the histories of Leonidas’s three hundred Spartans and Alexander the Great. But understanding the ..." |
 | | Orestes and Other Plays(Reprint) (Oxford World's Classics) by James Morwood Euripides, Edith Hall, Robin Waterfield, Robin Waterfield Euripides, Research Professor Edith Hall Paperback, 219 Pages, Published 2009 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-955243-6, ISBN: 0-19-955243-6 "Ion Orestes The Phoenician Women The Suppliant Women In these four plays Euripides explores ethical and political themes,contrasting the claims of patriotism with family loyalty, pragmatism and expediency with justice, and the idea that 'might is right' with the ideal of clemency. Ion is a vivid portrait of the role of chance in human life and an exploration of family relationships, which combines a sympathetic portrait of a rape v ..." |
 | | Medea and Other Plays(Reprint) (Oxford World's Classics) by James Euripides/ Morwood, Edith Hall, William Whitehead Paperback, 218 Pages, Published 2009 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-953796-9, ISBN: 0-19-953796-8 "`the most tragic of the poets' Aristotle Euripides was one of the most popular and controversial of all Greek tragedians, and his plays are marked by an independence of thought, ingenious dramatic devices, and a subtle variety of register and mood. He is also remarkable for the prominence he gave to female characters, whether heroines of virtue or vice. In the ethically shocking Medea, the first known child-killing mother in Greek ..." |
 | | The Trojan Women and Other Plays(Reprint) (Oxford World's Classics) by James Morwood Euripides, Edith Hall, James Morwood, Byron Gallery Staff Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2009 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-953881-2, ISBN: 0-19-953881-6 "This volume of Euripides' plays offers new translations of the three great war plays Trojan Women, Hecuba, and Andromache, in which the sufferings of Troy's survivors are harrowingly depicted. With unparalleled intensity, Euripides--whom Aristotle called the most tragic of poets--describes the horrific brutality that both women and children undergo during war. Yet, in the war's aftermath, this brutality is challenged and a new battlegro ..." |
 | | Heracles and Other Plays(1st Edition) (Oxford World's Classics) by Edith Hall, Robin Waterfield, James Morwood, Robin Waterfield Euripides, Euripides Euripides, Research Professor Edith Hall Paperback, 161 Pages, Published 2008 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-955509-3, ISBN: 0-19-955509-5 "Alcestis * Heracles * Children of Heracles * Cyclops Euripides wrote about timeless themes, of friendship and enmity, hope and despair, duty and betrayal. The first three plays in this volume are filled with violence or its threat, while the fourth, Cyclops, is our only surviving example of a genuine satyr play, with all the crude and slapstick humour that characterized the genre. There is death in Alcestis, which explore ..." |
 | | Bacchae and Other Plays(Updated) Iphigenia among the Taurians; Bacchae; Iphigenia at Aulis; Rhesus (Oxford World's Classics) by Edith Hall, James Morwood, Euripides James Morwood, James H. Morwood, Eur¡Pides Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2000 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-283875-9, ISBN: 0-19-283875-X "Iphigenia among the Taurians Bacchae Iphigenia at Aulis Rhesus The four plays newly translated in this volume are among Euripides' most exciting works. Iphigenia among the Taurians is a story of escape and contrasting Greek and barbarian civilization, set on the Black Sea at the edge of the known world. Bacchae, a profound exploration of the human psyche, deals with the appalling consequences of resistance to Dionysus, god of ..." |
 | | Medea and Other Plays(Updated) (Oxford World's Classics) by James Morwood, Edith Hall, Euripides /. James Morwood Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 1998 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-282442-4, ISBN: 0-19-282442-2 "`the most tragic of the poets' Aristotle Euripides was one of the most popular and controversial of all Greek tragedians, and his plays are marked by an independence of thought, ingenious dramatic devices, and a subtle variety of register and mood. He is also remarkable for the prominence he gave to female characters, whether heroines of virtue or vice. In the ethically shocking Medea, the first known child-killing mother in Greek ..." |
 | | A People's History of Classics Class and Greco-Roman Antiquity in Britain and Ireland 1689 to 1939 (Paperback) by Edith Hall, Henry Stead Paperback, Published 2020 by Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom ISBN-13: 978-0-367-43236-2, ISBN: 0-367-43236-6 |
 | | Aristotle's Way How Ancient Wisdom Can Change Your Life by Edith Hall Hardcover, 272 Pages, Published 2019 by Penguin Press ISBN-13: 978-0-7352-2080-5, ISBN: 0-7352-2080-8 "From renowned classicist Edith Hall, ARISTOTLE'S WAY is an examination of one of history's greatest philosophers, showing us how to lead happy, fulfilled, and meaningful lives Aristotle was the first philosopher to inquire into subjective happiness, and he understood its essence better and more clearly than anyone since. According to Aristotle, happiness is not about well-being, but instead a lasting state of contentment, which should b ..." |
 | | The Ancient Greeks Ten Ways They Shaped the Modern World by Edith Hall Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 2016 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-09-958364-6, ISBN: 0-09-958364-X "“Wonderful . . . a thoughtful discussion of what made [the Greeks] so important, in their own time and in ours.”―Natalie Haynes, Independent The ancient Greeks invented democracy, theater, rational science, and philosophy. They built the Parthenon and the Library of Alexandria. They wrote down the timeless myths of Odysseus and Oedipus, and the histories of Leonidas’s three hundred Spartans and Alexander the Great. But understanding the ..." |
 | | Introducing the Ancient Greeks (Hardcover) by Edith Hall Hardcover, 336 Pages, Published 2015 by Bodley Head ISBN-13: 978-1-84792-258-8, ISBN: 1-84792-258-9 |
 | | Women Classical Scholars(1st Edition) Unsealing the Fountain from the Renaissance to Jacqueline de Romilly (Classical Presences) by Rosie Wyles, Edith Hall, Research Professor Edith Hall Hardcover, 544 Pages, Published 2016 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-872520-6, ISBN: 0-19-872520-5 "Women Classical Scholars: Unsealing the Fountain from the Renaissance to Jacqueline de Romilly is the first written history of the pioneering women born between the Renaissance and 1913 who played significant roles in the history of classical scholarship. Facing seemingly insurmountable obstacles from patriarchal social systems and educational institutions - from learning Latin and Greek as a marginalized minority, to being excluded fro ..." |
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