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  • The Rigveda: A Guide

    by Stephanie Jamison, Joel Brereton ...
    Series series Guides to Sacred Texts
    The Rigveda is a monumental text in both world religion and world literature, yet outside a small band of specialists it is little known. Composed in the latter half of the second millennium BCE, it stands as the foundational text of what would later be called Hinduism. The text consists of over a thousand hymns dedicated to various divinities, composed in sophisticated and often enigmatic verse. ... Read more

    $27.19 CAD

  • The Classical Moment

    Views from Seven Literatures

    by William W. Hallo, Stephanie W. Jamison, Thomas Lamarre, Paul Rouzer, Keith W. Taylor ...
    Series series Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches
    The Classical Moment is a reexamination of the concept of a supreme moment in the literatures of Greece, Mesopotamia, India, China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam. Taking the case of Greece as its starting point, it examines what such "moments" have in common, how they are created, and what effect they have on subsequent literary creation. ... Read more

    $136.79 CAD

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  • The Oresteia

    Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides

    by Aeschylus, Robert Fagles, W. B. Stanford ...
    Translated by Robert Fagles ...
    One of the founding documents of Western culture and the only surviving ancient Greek trilogy, the Oresteia of Aeschylus is one of the great tragedies of all time.In the Oresteia, Aeschylus addressed the bloody chain of murder and revenge within the royal family of Argos. As they move from darkness to light, from rage to self-governance, from primitive ritual to civilized institution, their spirit ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Frogs and Other Plays

    by Aristophanes, Shomit Dutta ...
    The master of ancient Greek comic drama, Aristophanes combined slapstick, humour and cheerful vulgarity with acute political observations. In The Frogs, written during the Peloponnesian War, Dionysus descends to the Underworld to bring back a poet who can help Athens in its darkest hour, and stages a great debate to help him decide between the traditional wisdom of Aeschylus and the brilliant ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Clouds

    by Aristophanes ...
    Socrates' "Thinkery" is at the center of Clouds, which spoofs untraditional techniques for educating young men. ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD

  • The Six Comedies of Terence

    by Terence ...
    Six comedies by the Roman dramatist, in English translation: Andria; or, the Fair Andrian; Eunuchus; or, the Eunuch; Heautontimorumenos; or, the Self-Tormentor; Adelphi; or, the Brothers; Hecyra; the Mother-in-law; and Phormio; or, the Scheming Parasite. ... Read more

    $1.56 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Antigone

    by Sophocles, Richard Emil Braun ...
    Series series Greek Tragedy in New Translations
    Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly recreate the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in order to evoke the poetry of the originals. The series seeks to recover the entire extant corpus of Greek ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • The Complete Sophocles

    Volume II: Electra and Other Plays

    by Sophocles ...
    Series series Greek Tragedy in New Translations
    Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in order to evoke the poetry of the originals. The volume brings together four major works by one of the greatest ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD

  • King Oedipus

    With linked Table of Contents

    by Sophocles ...
    Widely regarded as one of the greatest Greek tragedies, ‘King Oedipus’ (or ‘Oedipus Rex’) is the first play in the Oedipus trilogy (followed by ‘Oedipus at Colonus’ and then ‘Antigone’). After defeating the Sphinx and freeing the kingdom of Thebes from her curse, the flawed hero unwittingly fulfills a prophecy that he would kill his father and marry his mother. ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Love of Izayoi & Seishin

    A Kabuki Play by Kawatake Mokuami

    by Kawatake Mokuami ...
    Translated by Frank T. Motofuji ...
    This dramatic and absorbing play tells the story of the courtesan Izayoi and the priest Seishin; classic lovers who are doomed to suffer the tragic consequences of their passion.As a representative example of Japanese play writing of the 19th century The Love of Izayoi and Seishin is a superlative example of the turbulence and dramatic incident that are the major conventions of Kabuki.The ... Read more

    $7.19 CAD

  • Hecuba

    by Euripides ...
    Series series Plays by Euripides
    In the play's unconventional opening, the ghost of Polydorus tells how when the war threatened Troy, he was sent to King Polymestor of Thrace for safekeeping, with gifts of gold and jewelry. But when Troy lost the war, Polymestor treacherously murdered Polydorus, and seized the treasure. Polydorus has foreknowledge of many of the play's events and haunted his mother's dreams the night before. ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • The Historical Nights' Entertainment: First Series

    by Rafael Sabatini ...
    Dive headlong into a world of intrigue, adventure, and historical drama with “The Historical Nights’ Entertainment” by Rafael Sabatini in this two-series format. In this captivating collection of stories, Sabatini weaves a tapestry of swashbuckling tales set against the backdrop of various historical periods. As you turn the pages, you’ll journey through time, from the treacherous court intrigues ... Read more

    $1.36 CAD