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  | | 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 ..." |
 | | Aristophanes in Performance 421 BC- AD 2007(1st Edition) Peace, Birds and Frogs (Legenda Main Series) (Legenda Main Series) by Research Professor Edith Hall, Amanda Wrigley, Edith Hall Hardcover, 250 Pages, Published 2007 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-904350-61-3, ISBN: 1-904350-61-5 "Flying to Heaven to demand an end to war, building Cloudcuckooland in the sky, descending to Hades to retrieve a dead tragedian - such were the cosmic missions on which Aristophanes, the father of comedy, sent his heroes of the classical Athenian stage. The wit, intellectual bravura, political clout and sheer imaginative power of Aristophanes' quest dramas have profoundly influenced humorous literature and satire, but this volume ..." |
 | | 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 ..." |
 | | 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 ..." |
 | | 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 ..." |
 | | Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies Supplements Ser. India, Greece, and Rome, 1757 to 2007 by Edith Hall, Phiroze Vasunia Paperback, 180 Pages, Published 2010 by Institute Of Classical Studies, United Kingdom ISBN-13: 978-1-905670-28-4, ISBN: 1-905670-28-1 |
 | | Ancient Slavery and Abolition From Hobbes to Hollywood by Richard Alston, Edith Hall, Justine Mcconnell Published 2011 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-161797-3, ISBN: 0-19-161797-0 "A pathbreaking study of the role played by ancient Greek and Roman sources and voices in the struggle to abolish transatlantic slavery and in representations of that struggle in the twentieth century." |
 | | New Directions in Ancient Pantomime by Edith Hall, Rosie Wyles 500 Pages, Published 2008 by Oup Oxford ISBN-13: 978-0-19-155257-1, ISBN: 0-19-155257-7 "3 The problem presented by the diYculty of staging Seneca's plays was eventually summarized and systematically investigated by O. Zwierlein in his dissertation Die Rezitationdramas Senecas (1966). The question of the absence of any known instance of a staging of a Senecan tragedy is here methodically investigated by being addressed solely to the text of the plays. Zwierlein subjects the corpus of Seneca's 'Attic' tragedies to a det ..." |
 | | Cultural Responses to the Persian Wars Antiquity to the Third Millennium by Emma Bridges, Edith Hall, P.J. Rhodes 472 Pages, Published 2007 by Oup Oxford ISBN-13: 978-0-19-155751-4, ISBN: 0-19-155751-X "Extensively illustrated and accessibly written, with a detailed Introduction and bibliographies, this book will interest historians, classicists, and students of both comparative and modern literatures." |
 | | Greek and Roman Actors(Reprint) Aspects of an Ancient Profession by Pat Easterling, Edith Hall Paperback, 544 Pages, Published 2008 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-04550-6, ISBN: 0-521-04550-9 "This series of twenty complementary essays by experts in the field explores the art, social status, reputation and image of the ancient actor in the Greek and Roman worlds, from the sixth century B.C. to the Byzantine period. It covers tragedy, comedy, mime and pantomime and offers a full overview of the most important ancient evidence. In some essays new questions are asked, and in others, completely new evidence is offered. Numerous i ..." |
 | | Bacchae and Other Plays(Reprint) Iphigenia among the Taurians; Bacchae; Iphigenia at Aulis; Rhesus (Oxford World's Classics) by Edith Hall, James Morwood, James Morwood Euripides Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2008 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-954052-5, ISBN: 0-19-954052-7 "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 ..." |
 | | The Return of Ulysses(Reprint) by Edith Hall Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2012 by I.B.Tauris ISBN-13: 978-1-78076-235-7, ISBN: 1-78076-235-6 "Whether they focus on the bewitching song of the Sirens, his cunning escape from the cave of the terrifying one-eyed Cyclops, or the vengeful slaying of the suitors of his beautiful wife Penelope, the stirring adventures of Ulysses/Odysseus are amongst the most durable in human culture. The picaresque return of the wandering pirate-king is one of the most popular texts of all time, crossing East-West divides and inspiring poets and film ..." |
 | | Reading Ancient Slavery by Richard Alston, Edith Hall, Laura Proffitt, Bristol Classical Press Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2011 by Bristol Classical Press ISBN-13: 978-0-7156-3868-2, ISBN: 0-7156-3868-8 "Studies of ancient slavery have tended to rely on particular types of evidence – inscriptions, legal sources, and historical accounts – whereas literary imaginings of slavery have been relatively under-exploited. Yet these sources illuminate for is the ideologies that allowed slavery to be practiced throughout antiquity with virtually no opposition and further to understand how and why slavery was debated and, to some extent, experience ..." |
 | | Love In The Weaving (1910) by Edith Hall Orthwein Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2008 by Kessinger Publishing, Llc ISBN-13: 978-0-548-84627-8, ISBN: 0-548-84627-8 |
 | | Love in the Weaving by Edith Hall Orthwein Paperback, 220 Pages, Published 2012 by Hardpr Pub ISBN-13: 978-1-290-48256-1, ISBN: 1-290-48256-X |
 | | Cowboy Dog Sam Travels in the Mountains by Edith Hall Paperback, Published 2011 by Bookstand Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-58909-971-5, ISBN: 1-58909-971-0 |
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