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  • Homer

    Collections series Understanding Classics
    What reader could fail to be enthralled by the Iliad and the Odyssey, those greatest heroic epics of antiquity? Yet the author of those immortal text remains, in the end, an enigma. The central paradox of 'Homer' is that- while recognized as producing poetry of incomparable genius- even in the ancien world nobody knew who he was. As a result, the myth-maker became the subject of myth. For the ... En savoir plus

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  • Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments of Sappho

    par Sappho ...
    Traduit par Aaron Poochigian ...
    'We hear the voice of a great and enduring poet in our ear again' Carol Ann Duffy'Go, girls, pursue the violet Muses' brightGifts and the plangent lyre, lover of hymns'By turns subversive, erotic and poignant, Sappho is one of the most versatile and exquisite poets in Classical literature. Invoking female deities, Sappho summons the Muses for inspiration and beseeches Aphrodite's allegiance in a ... En savoir plus

    $10.99 CAD

  • Oedipus the King

    par Sophocles ...
    Collections series Enriched Classics
    The famed Athenian tragedy in which Oedipus’s own faults contribute to his tragic downfall.A great masterpiece on which Aristotle based his aesthetic theory of drama in the Poetics and from which Freud derived the Oedipus complex, King Oedipus puts out a sentence on the unknown murderer of his father Laius. By a gradual unfolding of incidents, Oedipus learns that he was the assassin and that ... En savoir plus

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  • The Complete Poems of Sappho

    Modifié par Willis Barnstone ...
    A vivid, contemporary translation of the greatest Greek love poet—with a wealth of materials for understanding her work—by a prize-winning poet and translatorSappho’s thrilling lyric verse has been unremittingly popular for more than 2,600 years—certainly a record for poetry of any kind—and love for her art only increases as time goes on. Though her extant work consists only of a collection of ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD

  • Antigone; Oedipus the King; Electra

    par Sophocles ...
    Traduit par H. D. F. Kitto ...
    Collections series Oxford World's Classics
    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's reputation has remained undimmed for two and a half thousand years. His greatest ... En savoir plus

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  • The Bacchae and Other Plays

    par Euripides ...
    Through their sheer range, daring innovation, flawed but eloquent characters and intriguing plots, the plays of Euripides have shocked and stimulated audiences since the fifth century BC. Phoenician Women portrays the rival sons of King Oedipus and their mother's doomed attempts at reconciliation, while Orestes shows a son ravaged with guilt after the vengeful murder of his mother. In the Bacchae, ... En savoir plus

    $10.99 CAD

  • Poetics

    par Aristotle ...
    Traduit par Anthony Kenny ...
    Collections series Oxford World's Classics
    'What is poetry, how many kinds of it are there, and what are their specific effects?' Aristotle's Poetics is the most influential book on poetry ever written. A founding text of European aesthetics and literary criticism, from it stems much of our modern understanding of the creation and impact of imaginative writing, including poetry, drama, and fiction. For Aristotle, the art of representation ... En savoir plus

    $7.19 CAD

  • Exploring Greek Myth

    par Matthew Clark ...
    Exploring Greek Myth offers an extensive discussion of variant forms of myths and lesser-known stories, including important local myths and local versions of PanHellenic myths. Clark also discusses approaches to understanding myths, allowing students to gain an appreciation of the variety in one volume.Guides students from an introductory understanding of myths to a wide-ranging exploration of ... En savoir plus

    $31.99 CAD

  • The Great Philosophers: Aristotle

    par Kenneth Mcleish ...
    Collections series GREAT PHILOSOPHERS
    'Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all' Aristotle'Knowing yourself is the mark of all wisdom''You will never do anything in this world without courage'Aristotle was one of the greatest philosophers that has ever lived. Taught by Plato, he was the first genuine scientist in history, a true pioneer of both science and philosophy. Widely credited as the inventor of the ... En savoir plus

    $2.99 CAD

  • Enraged

    Why Violent Times Need Ancient Greek Myths

    "Anhalt's contribution is building an overarching narrative of how the Greeks engaged problems of anger—problems that continue to provoke."— ChoiceMillennia ago, Greek myths exposed the dangers of violent rage and the need for empathy and self-restraint. Homer's Iliad, Euripides' Hecuba, and Sophocles' Ajax show that anger and vengeance destroy perpetrators and victims alike. Composed before and ... En savoir plus

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  • Homer

    Homer's mythological tales of war and homecoming, the Iliad and the Odyssey, are considered to be two of the most influential works in the history of Western literature. Yet their author, 'the greatest poet that ever lived' is something of a mystery. By the 6th century BCE, Homer had already become a mythical figure, and even today the debate continues as to whether he ever existed. Barbara ... En savoir plus

    $8.99 CAD

  • A Guide to The Odyssey

    A Commentary on the English Translation of Robert Fitzgerald

    par Ralph Hexter ...
    For those of us who know and love the incomparable Odyssey of Homer (and there are many), Dr. Hexter has created a valuable, detailed analysis, taking into account many of Homer's most fascinating subtleties. ... En savoir plus

    $12.99 CAD