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  • Queer Cambridge

    An Alternative History

    by Simon Goldhill ...
    Queer Cambridge recounts the untold story of a gay community living, for many decades, at the very heart of the British Establishment. Making effective use of chiefly forgotten archival sources – including personal diaries and letters – the author reveals a network that was in equal parts tolerant and acerbic, and within which the queer Fellows of Cambridge University explored bold new forms of ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • How to Stage Greek Tragedy Today

    by Simon Goldhill ...
    From the stages of Broadway and London to university campuses, Paris, and the bourgeoning theaters of Africa, Greek tragedy remains constantly in production. This global revival, in addition to delighting audiences, has highlighted both the promise and the pitfalls of staging ancient masterpieces in the modern age. Addressing the issues and challenges these performances pose, renowned classicist ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Very Queer Family Indeed

    Sex, Religion, and the Bensons in Victorian Britain

    by Simon Goldhill ...
    "We can begin with a kiss, though this will not turn out to be a love story, at least not a love story of anything like the usual kind."So begins A Very Queer Family Indeed, which introduces us to the extraordinary Benson family. Edward White Benson became Archbishop of Canterbury at the height of Queen Victoria's reign, while his wife, Mary, was renowned for her wit and charm—the prime minister ... Read more

    $20.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Victorian Culture and Classical Antiquity

    Art, Opera, Fiction, and the Proclamation of Modernity

    by Simon Goldhill ...
    Series series Martin Classical Lectures
    How did the Victorians engage with the ancient world? Victorian Culture and Classical Antiquity is a brilliant exploration of how the ancient worlds of Greece and Rome influenced Victorian culture. Through Victorian art, opera, and novels, Simon Goldhill examines how sexuality and desire, the politics of culture, and the role of religion in society were considered and debated through the Victorian ... Read more

    $50.39 USD

  • Reading Greek Tragedy

    by Simon Goldhill ...
    Series series Cambridge Classical Classics
    This book is an advanced critical introduction to Greek tragedy. It is written specifically for the reader who does not know Greek and who may be unfamiliar with the context of the Athenian drama festival but who nevertheless wants to appreciate the plays in all their complexity. Simon Goldhill aims to combine the best contemporary scholarly criticism in classics with a wide knowledge of modern ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • The Buried Life of Things

    How Objects Made History in Nineteenth-Century Britain

    by Simon Goldhill ...
    Simon Goldhill offers a fresh and exciting perspective on how the Victorians used material culture to express their sense of the past in an age of progress, especially the biblical past and the past of classical antiquity. From Pompeian skulls on a writer's desk, to religious paraphernalia in churches, new photographic images of the Holy Land and the remaking of the cityscape of Jerusalem and ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Jerusalem

    City of Longing

    by Simon Goldhill ...
    Jerusalem is the site of some of the most famous religious monuments in the world, from the Dome of the Rock to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre to the Western Wall of the Temple. Since the nineteenth century, the city has been a premier tourist destination, not least because of the countless religious pilgrims from the three Abrahamic faiths.But Jerusalem is more than a tourist site—it is a city ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • What Is a Jewish Classicist?

    Essays on the Personal Voice and Disciplinary Politics

    by Simon Goldhill ...
    Series series Rubicon
    In recent years, there has been no issue that has convulsed academia and its role in society more stridently than the personal politics of its institutions: who has access to education? How does who you are change what you study and how you engage with it? How does scholarship reflect the politics of society – how should it? These new essays from one of the best-known scholars of ancient Greece ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • The Christian Invention of Time

    Temporality and the Literature of Late Antiquity

    by Simon Goldhill ...
    Series series Greek Culture in the Roman World
    Time is integral to human culture. Over the last two centuries people's relationship with time has been transformed through industrialisation, trade and technology. But the first such life-changing transformation – under Christianity's influence – happened in late antiquity. It was then that time began to be conceptualised in new ways, with discussion of eternity, life after death and the end of ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Freud's Couch, Scott's Buttocks, Brontë's Grave

    Adventures in Travel

    by Simon Goldhill ...
    Series series Culture Trails
    The Victorian era was the high point of literary tourism. Writers such as Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Sir Walter Scott became celebrities, and readers trekked far and wide for a glimpse of the places where their heroes wrote and thought, walked and talked. Even Shakespeare was roped in, as Victorian entrepreneurs transformed quiet Stratford-upon-Avon into a combination shrine and tourist ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Preposterous Poetics

    The Politics and Aesthetics of Form in Late Antiquity

    by Simon Goldhill ...
    Series series Greek Culture in the Roman World
    How does literary form change as Christianity and rabbinic Judaism take shape? What is the impact of literary tradition and the new pressures of religious thinking? Tracing a journey over the first millennium that includes works in Latin, Greek, Hebrew and Aramaic, this book changes our understanding of late antiquity and how its literary productions make a significant contribution to the cultural ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Sophocles and the Language of Tragedy

    by Simon Goldhill ...
    Series series Onassis Series in Hellenic Culture
    Written by one of the best-known interpreters of classical literature today, Sophocles and the Language of Tragedy presents a revolutionary take on the work of this great classical playwright and on how our understanding of tragedy has been shaped by our literary past. Simon Goldhill sheds new light on Sophocles' distinctive brilliance as a dramatist, illuminating such aspects of his work as his ... Read more

    $34.19 USD