Greek Roman category: 1023 books
by Terence
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Classic Roman comedy play. With active table of contents. According to Wikipedia, "Publius Terentius Afer (195/185159 BC), better known in English as Terence, was a playwright of the Roman Republic. His comedies were performed for the first time around 170160 BC, and he died young, probably in Greece...
by Terence
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Classic Roman comedy play. With active table of contents. According to Wikipedia, "Publius Terentius Afer (195/185159 BC), better known in English as Terence, was a playwright of the Roman Republic. His comedies were performed for the first time around 170160 BC, and he died young, probably in Greece...
by Leon Katz
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008
A cycle of thirteen episodes told in Story Theater form, a narrator speaking and life-sized puppets performing simultaneously, Metamorphoses tells the stories from Greek mythology—from the first moments of creation to its version of the flood, and the trials, tribulations, and joys during Zeuss long...
by
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Athenian comedy is firmly entrenched in the classical canon, but imperial authors debated, dissected and redirected comic texts, plots and language of Aristophanes, Menander, and their rivals in ways that reflect the non-Athenocentric, pan-Mediterranean performance culture of the imperial era. Although...
by John Ferguson
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2013
This handbook provides students and scholars with a highly readable yet detailed analysis of all surviving Greek tragedies and satyr plays. John Ferguson places each play in its historical, political, and social context—important for both Athenian and modern audiences—and he displays a keen, discriminating...
by Marianne McDonald
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2003
Marianne McDonald brings together her training as a scholar of classical Greek with her vast experience in theatre and drama to help students of the classics and of theatre learn about the living performance tradition of Greek tragedy. The Living Art of Greek Tragedy is indispensable for anyone interested...
by David Raeburn
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2016
This is a unique introduction to Greek tragedy that explores the plays as dramatic artifacts intended for performance and pays special attention to construction, design, staging, and musical composition.
Written by a scholar who combines his academic understanding of Greek tragedy with his singular...
Greek Tragedies 3
Aeschylus: The Eumenides; Sophocles: Philoctetes, Oedipus at Colonus; Euripides: The Bacchae, Alcestis
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Greek Tragedies, Volume III contains Aeschylus’s “The Eumenides,” translated by Richmond Lattimore; Sophocles’s “Philoctetes,” translated by David Grene; Sophocles’s “Oedipus at Colonus,” translated by Robert Fitzgerald; Euripides’s “The Bacchae,” translated by William Arrowsmith;...
Greek Tragedies 1
Aeschylus: Agamemnon, Prometheus Bound; Sophocles: Oedipus the King, Antigone; Euripides: Hippolytus
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Greek Tragedies, Volume I contains Aeschylus’s “Agamemnon,” translated by Richmond Lattimore; Aeschylus’s “Prometheus Bound,” translated by David Grene; Sophocles’s “Oedipus the King,” translated by David Grene; Sophocles’s “Antigone,” translated by Elizabeth Wyckoff; and Euripides’s...
Greek Tragedies 2
Aeschylus: The Libation Bearers; Sophocles: Electra; Euripides: Iphigenia among the Taurians, Electra, The Trojan Women
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Greek Tragedies, Volume II contains Aeschylus’s “The Libation Bearers,” translated by Richmond Lattimore; Sophocles’s “Electra,” translated by David Grene; Euripides’s “Iphigenia among the Taurians,” translated by Anne Carson; Euripides’s “Electra,” translated by Emily Townsend...
Contemporary Adaptations of Greek Tragedy
Auteurship and Directorial Visions
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
Contemporary Adaptations of Greek Tragedy: Auteurship and Directorial Visions provides a wide-ranging analysis of the role of the director in shaping adaptations for the stage today. Through its focus on a wide range of international productions by Katie Mitchell, Theodoros Terzopoulos, Peter Sellars,...
by James Franklin Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
The ability of human beings to feel compassion or empathy for one another—and express that emotion by offering comfort or assistance—is an important antidote to violence and aggression. In ancient Greece, the epics of Homer and the tragic dramas performed each spring in the Theater of Dionysus...
Greek Tragedy and the Emotions (Routledge Revivals)
An Introductory Study
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
According to Aristotle the main purpose of tragedy is the manipulation of emotions, and yet there are relatively few accessible studies of the precise dynamics of emotion in the Athenian theatre.
In Greek Tragedy and the Emotions, first published in 1993,W.B. Stanford reviews the evidence for...
by Ian C. Storey, Arlene Allan
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
This newly updated second edition features wide-ranging, systematically organized scholarship in a concise introduction to ancient Greek drama, which flourished from the sixth to third century BC.
Covers all three genres of ancient Greek drama – tragedy, comedy, and satyr-drama
Surveys the...