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  • Antigone and other Tragedies

    Antigone, Deianeira, Electra

    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    Sophocles stands as one of the greatest dramatists of all time, and one of the most influential on artists and thinkers over the centuries. His plays are deeply disturbing and unpredictable, unrelenting and open-ended, refusing to present firm answers to the questions of human existence, or to provide a redemptive justification of the ways of gods to men-or women. These three tragedies portray the ... Read more

    $22.39 CAD

  • Greek Tragedy in Action

    by Oliver Taplin ...
    Oliver Taplin's seminal study was revolutionary in drawing out the significance of stage action in Greek tragedy at a time when plays were often read purely as texts, rather than understood as performances.Professor Taplin explores nine plays, including Aeschylus' agamemnon and Sophocles' Oedipus the King. The details of theatrical techniques and stage directions, used by playwrights to highlight ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Agamemnon in Performance 458 BC to AD 2004

    Edited by Fiona Macintosh, Pantelis Michelakis, Edith Hall, Oliver Taplin ...
    Aeschylus' Agamemnon, the first play in the Oresteia trilogy, is one of the most influential theatrical texts in the global canon. In performance, translation, adaptation, along with sung and danced interpretations, it has been familiar in the Greek world and the Roman empire, and from the Renaissance to the contemporary stage. It has been central to the aesthetic and intellectual avant-garde as ... Read more

    $163.99 CAD

  • A Dictionary of Classical Greek Quotations

    Edited by Marinos Yeroulanos ...
    'Only god is truly wise: human wisdom is of little or no value', declaimed Plato in his Apology. And yet the ancient Greeks, including Plato himself, more than any other people of antiquity were fascinated by the pursuit of the wisdom they called philosophia. That search for knowledge involved an extensive use of maxims and quotations, as we can see from those expressions of Homer prefaced by the ... Read more

    $84.99 CAD

  • The Oresteia

    Agamemnon, Women at the Graveside, Orestes in Athens

    Translated by Oliver Taplin ...
    by Aeschylus ...
    This spellbinding, groundbreaking translation reenergizes Aeschylus’ enduring saga of split loyalties, bloody sacrifice, and the efforts to bring peace after generations of strife.The most renowned of Aeschylus’ tragedies and one of the foundational texts of Western literature, the Oresteia trilogy is about cycles of deception and brutality within the ruling family of Argos. In Agamemnon, ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Medea

    by Euripides ...
    Translated by Oliver Taplin ...
    In the centuries since it was first performed, Euripides’s Medea has established itself as one of the most influential of the Greek tragedies. The story of the wronged wife who seeks revenge against her unfaithful husband by murdering their children is lodged securely in the popular imagination, a touchstone for politics, law, and psychoanalysis and the subject of constant retellings and ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • Human Growth and Development in Children and Young People

    Theoretical and Practice Perspectives

    by Stephen Cowden, Gurnam Singh, Deborah Hadwin, Atle Ødegård, Siv E N Sæbjørnsen, Elisabeth Willumsen, Louise Oliver, Christine Cocker, Lisa Bunting, Sue Taplin, Richard Heslop, Melanie Watts, Nick Frost, Alison Rodriguez, Wilfred Mcsherry, Jo Finch, Margarete Parrish, Joanna Murray Smith ...
    Unparalleled in its coverage of concepts and themes, this textbook uses insights from across sociology, psychology, criminology and other areas of expertise to show how children and young people negotiate crucial challenges and transitions in their lives.It considers a wide range of theories, issues and practice dimensions and clearly shows how they connect, with fresh insights on topics including ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

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    by Quick Read, Arthur Machen ...
    Discover a new way to read classics with Quick Read.This Quick Read edition includes both the full text and a summary for each chapter.- Reading time of the complete text: about 2 hours- Reading time of the summarized text: 7 minutes"The Great God Pan" is a novella written by Arthur Machen in 1890. The story is about a doctor named Raymond who performs an experiment to open the mind of a patient ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Faust

    by Johann Von Goethe, Bayard Taylor ...
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust is a tragic play in two parts: Faust. Der Tragödie erster Teil translated as: Faust: The First Part of the Tragedy) and Faust. Der Tragödie zweiter Teil (Faust: The Second Part of the Tragedy). Although rarely staged in its entirety, it is the play with the largest audience numbers on German-language stages. Faust is Goethe's most famous work and considered by ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Works Of Sophocles: Includes The Theban Plays (The Oedipus Cycle), Aias, Trachinian Women, Ajax, Electra And Philoktetes (Mobi Collected Works)

    by Sophocles ...
    This collection was designed for optimal navigation on eReaders and other electronic devices. This collection offers lower price, the convenience of a one-time download, and it reduces the clutter in your digital library. All books included in this collection feature a hyperlinked table of contents and footnotes. The collection is complimented by an author biography.This Collection Includes:The ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Last Days of Pompeii

    by Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton ...
    Last Days of Pompeii - Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton - The Last Days of Pompeii is a novel written by the baron Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1834. The novel was inspired by the painting The Last Day of Pompeii by the Russian painter Karl Briullov, which Bulwer-Lytton had seen in Milan. Once a very widely read book and now relatively neglected, it culminates in the cataclysmic destruction of the city of ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Gilgamesh

    Edited by John Gardner ...
    The story of Gilgamesh, an ancient epic poem written on clay tablets in a cuneiform alphabet, is as fascinating and moving as it is crucial to our ability to fathom the time and the place in which it was written. Gardner's version restores the poetry of the text and the lyricism that is lost in the earlier, almost scientific renderings. The principal theme of the poem is a familiar one: man's ... Read more

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