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  | | 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 ..." |
 | | 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 ..." |
 | | 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 ..." |
 | | 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 ..." |
 | | Dionysus since 69(Updated) Greek Tragedy at the Dawn of the Third Millennium by Fiona Macintosh, Edith Hall, Amanda Wrigley, Kathleen Riley, Research Professor Edith Hall Paperback, 498 Pages, Published 2005 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-928131-2, ISBN: 0-19-928131-9 "Greek tragedy is currently being performed more frequently than at any time since classical antiquity. This book is the first to address the fundamental question, why has there been so much Greek tragedy in the theatres, opera houses, and cinemas of the last three decades? A detailed chronological appendix of production information and lavish illustrations supplement the fourteen essays by an interdisciplinary team of specialists fro ..." |
 | | 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 ..." |
 | | Ancient Greek Myth in World Fiction since 1989 (Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception) by Justine Mcconnell, Edith Hall, Research Professor Edith Hall, University Of Oxford Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2015 by Bloomsbury Academic ISBN-13: 978-1-4725-7938-6, ISBN: 1-4725-7938-0 "Ancient Greek Myth in World Fiction since 1989 explores the diverse ways that contemporary world fiction has engaged with ancient Greek myth. Whether as a framing device, or a filter, or via resonances and parallels, Greek myth has proven fruitful for many writers of fiction since the end of the Cold War. This volume examines the varied ways that writers from around the world have turned to classical antiquity to articulate their own ..." |
 | | Medea in Performance 1500-2000 (Legenda Main) by Edith Hall, Oliver Taplin, Fiona Macintosh, Fiona Mcintosh, Research Professor Edith Hall Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2013 by Legenda ISBN-13: 978-1-900755-35-1, ISBN: 1-900755-35-1 "The extensive performance history of Euripides' Medea since the Renaissance underscores its lasting social and political relevance. Here, papers drawn from an interdisciplinary colloquium hosted at Somerville College by the University of Oxford's Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama in August 1998 are augmented by additional essays from specialists. The contributors to this important volume include Ian Christie, David Gown ..." |
 | | Excavations in Eastern Crete Vrokastro (Classic Reprint) by Research Professor Edith Hall Hardcover, 122 Pages, Published 2018 by Forgotten Books ISBN-13: 978-0-265-51165-7, ISBN: 0-265-51165-8 "Excerpt from Excavations in Eastern Crete: Vrokastro There have not been wanting, however, scholars who have realized the importance of this period; Dr. Duncan Mackenzie in his masterly analysis of the pottery of the early iron age1 has indicated the probable place of the Achaean invasion in the series of inroads by northerners into the island. Certainly it is by a detailed study of the remains of this epoch that the relations of the Mi ..." |
 | | Iph(Updated) (Oberon Modern Plays) by Colin Teevan Euripides, Colin Teevan, Research Professor Edith Hall Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2005 by Oberon Books ISBN-13: 978-1-84002-303-9, ISBN: 1-84002-303-1 "Since it premiered in Athens in 405 BC alongside Bacchai, Euripides' Iphigeneia in Aulis has been one of the most performed and re-imagined of Ancient Greek Tragedies. The story of how Iphigeneia, the daughter of Agamemnon, agrees to her own sacrifice so that the Greeks might sail to Troy has been re-interpreted in drama, opera and film by amongst others Racine, Gluck, Goethe and Cacoyannis. Colin Teevan's version, Iph..., which was fir ..." |
 | | New Directions in Ancient Pantomime(1st Edition) by Research Professor Edith Hall, Rosie Wyles Hardcover, 504 Pages, Published 2009 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-923253-6, ISBN: 0-19-923253-9 "This is the first comprehensive and illustrated study of the most important form of theatre in the entire Roman Empire - pantomime, the ancient equivalent of ballet dancing. Performed for more than five centuries in hundreds of theatres from Portugal in the West to the Euphrates, from Gaul to North Africa, solo male dancing stars - the forerunners of Nijinsky, Nureyev, and Baryshnikov - stunned audiences with their erotic costumes, subt ..." |
 | | Iphigenia among the Taurians, Bacchae, Iphigenia at Aulis, Rhesus(1st Edition) by James Morwood, Edith Hall, James Morwood Euripides, Research Professor Edith Hall Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 1999 by Clarendon Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-815094-7, ISBN: 0-19-815094-6 "This book is the second of three volumes of a new prose translation, with introduction and notes, of Euripides' most popular plays. The first three tragedies translated in this volume illustrate Euripides' extraordinary dramatic range. Iphigenia among the Taurians, set on the Black Sea at the edge of the known world, is much more than an exciting story of escape. It is remarkable for its sensitive delineation of character as it weighs G ..." |
 | | Medea, Hippolytus, Electra, Helen by James Morwood, Edith Hall, James Euripides Morwood, Research Professor Edith Hall Hardcover, 218 Pages, Published 1998 by Clarendon Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-814966-8, ISBN: 0-19-814966-2 "In this new translation of the most profound tragedies of Euripides, one of the trio of the supreme Greek tragedians of the fifth century BC, James Morwood brings harshly to life the pressure of the intolerable circumstances under which Euripides places his characters. His dark and cheerless world, one where the gods prove malevolent, importent, or simply absent, reveals men, to use his own words, `as they are'. His clear-eyed yet sym ..." |
 | | Excavations in Eastern Crete Vrokastro (Classic Reprint) by Edith Hall (2017, Paperback) by Research Professor Edith Hall Paperback, Published 2017 by Forgotten Books, United States ISBN-13: 978-0-243-28022-3, ISBN: 0-243-28022-X |
 | | Greek Tragedy and the British Theatre 1660-1914 by Research Professor Edith Hall , Fiona Macintosh , E. M. Hardcover, 760 Pages, Published 2005 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-815087-9, ISBN: 0-19-815087-3 |
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