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Book Agamemnon in Performance 458 BC to AD 2004

Download or read book Agamemnon in Performance 458 BC to AD 2004 written by Fiona Macintosh and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2005-12-08 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 well as to radical politics of all complexions and to feminist thinking. Contributors to this interdisciplinary collection of eighteen essays on its performance history include classical scholars, theatre historians, and experts in English and comparative literature. All Greek and Latin has been translated; the book is generously illustrated, and supplemented with the useful research aid of a chronological appendix of performances.

Book Aeschylus  Agamemnon

    Book Details:
  • Author : Aeschylus
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1906
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 147 pages

Download or read book Aeschylus Agamemnon written by Aeschylus and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Classical Department produced the play Agamemon, performed in the stadium on June 16 and 19, 1906

Book The Agamemnon of Aeschylus  tr  by a Balliol man

Download or read book The Agamemnon of Aeschylus tr by a Balliol man written by Aeschylus and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Agamemnon of Aeschylus

Download or read book The Agamemnon of Aeschylus written by Benjamin Hall Kennedy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-08-08 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, originally published in 1882, celebrated classicist Benjamin Hall Kennedy (1804-1889) provides both the original text of Aeschylus' Agamemnon, the first play in the Oresteia trilogy and one of the most famous extant Greek tragedies, as well as a metrical English translation and a broad commentary.

Book The Agamemnon of Aeschylus

    Book Details:
  • Author : Aeschylus Benjamin Hall Kennedy
  • Publisher : Wentworth Press
  • Release : 2019-02-25
  • ISBN : 9780469622623
  • Pages : 266 pages

Download or read book The Agamemnon of Aeschylus written by Aeschylus Benjamin Hall Kennedy and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2019-02-25 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book The Agamemnon of Aeschylus

Download or read book The Agamemnon of Aeschylus written by Aeschylus and published by . This book was released on 20?? with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Aeschylus  Agamemnon

Download or read book Aeschylus Agamemnon written by Leah Himmelhoch and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This accessible edition for students brings the Agamemnon, Aeschylus' opening play in the Oresteia trilogy, to life for first-time readers. A hugely popular play in antiquity and with a rich reception history to the present day, this is an essential play for students of classics, drama and the canon of western literature. Leah Himmelhoch provides a helpful guide for students and instructors wishing to study and teach the play, building on her over twenty-five years of experience teaching college and university students. A quick introduction sets out Agamemnon's historical, literary, and performative context, its use of imagery and themes (especially gender conflict and the perversion of sacrificial ritual), and its subsequent literary and cultural impact while extensive commentary notes guide students through every line of the Greek text. Difficult passages are carefully explained while the power and beauty of the language is brought out at every opportunity. Himmelhoch's commentary also offers a companion website with a running vocabulary for the entire Agamemnon as further help for students.

Book The Agamemnon of Aeschylus

Download or read book The Agamemnon of Aeschylus written by Bradfield College and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Agamemnon of Aeschylus

Download or read book The Agamemnon of Aeschylus written by Aeschylus and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Dialogues of Plato

Download or read book The Dialogues of Plato written by Plato and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At head of title: New national edition. I. The Republic, introduction and analysis.--II. The Republic.--III. The trial and death of Socrates.--IV. Charmides and other dialogues, Selections from the Laws.

Book A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century

Download or read book A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century written by Henry Augustin Beers and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Gerard Manley Hopkins

Download or read book Gerard Manley Hopkins written by Todd K. Bender and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2019-12-01 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1966. In his lifetime, Gerard Manley Hopkins was known as a poet only by a small circle of his friends. More than any other major Victorian writer, he was recovered and presented as a poet to modern readers by editors and scholars of the first half of the twentieth century. This book analyzes how and to what extent the presuppositions of these critics have dictated the modern conception of Hopkins's work. Bender seeks to dispel, once and for all, the notion that Hopkins was a naïf poet. He provides an analysis of classical Greek and Latin rhetoric relative to the classical background of Hopkins's style and the structure in his poetry. He maintains that especially in Hopkins's more extreme work, such as "The Wreck of the Deutschland," there are precedents for the structure of the poem itself, the structure of the sentences within the poem, and its sensual and obscure imagery in the classical literature that Hopkins knew so well. Bender's study suggests two highly controversial positons: first, that although Hopkins is one of the most original voices in English, his poetry is within a tradition insufficiently recognized by modern critics; and second, that the effect of careful and sympathetic study of classical literature can induce quite the opposite of a neoclassical style in English.

Book Between Empire and Revolution

Download or read book Between Empire and Revolution written by Allison Drew and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-09-30 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sidney Bunting's life offers a unique perspective on the British Empire, illustrating the complex social networks and values that were carried across the world in the name of empire. Drawing on archival material, including the Bunting family papers and records of Bunting's Oxford years, this work presents his biography.

Book The Sword of Song

Download or read book The Sword of Song written by Aleister Crowley and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2025-04-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: • Presents Crowley’s preferred text, drawing on all existing draft manuscripts and margin notes from Crowley’s personal copies • Contains an introduction and explanatory notes by Crowley biographer Richard Kaczynski, helping to illuminate obscure passages and references • Includes Crowley’s mystical essays on his first forays into sex magic, his initial embrace of the legendary title of “the Beast,” and his encounters with the Golden Dawn, Buddhism, Agnosticism, and Christianity Too inflammatory for English publishers, Aleister Crowley printed The Sword of Song, his first talismanic work, in Paris in 1904, releasing a mere one hundred copies. Deconstructing his encounters with the Golden Dawn, Buddhism, Agnosticism, and Christianity, the book explores Crowley’s magic and spiritual philosophy before he experienced the revelation that led to The Book of the Law. It contains Crowley’s first manifesto, his first forays into sex magic, his initial embrace of the legendary title of “the Beast,” the occult poem “Ascension Day,” and mystical essays. In this fully annotated deluxe hardcover edition of The Sword of Song, renowned Crowley biographer Richard Kaczynski presents Crowley’s preferred text for this work, drawing on all existing draft manuscripts as well as unpublished margin notes from Crowley’s personal copies of the book. Kaczynski clarifies all the significant changes and additions throughout the book’s various iterations and provides explanations for the many occult and popular culture references. He also includes a substantial scholarly introduction, reflecting an intimate knowledge of Crowley and the development of his magical practice. A prototype for later works such as Konx Om Pax and The Book of Lies, The Sword of Song’s blend of poetry, allegory, fiction, and essay reveals the formative inner workings of one of the twentieth century’s most provocative thinkers just before he received the life-changing Book of the Law from Aiwass.

Book The Birth of Hedonism

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kurt Lampe
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2014-10-26
  • ISBN : 1400852498
  • Pages : 298 pages

Download or read book The Birth of Hedonism written by Kurt Lampe and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-26 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to Xenophon, Socrates tried to persuade his associate Aristippus to moderate his excessive indulgence in wine, women, and food, arguing that only hard work can bring happiness. Aristippus wasn't convinced. Instead, he and his followers espoused the most radical form of hedonism in ancient Western philosophy. Before the rise of the better known but comparatively ascetic Epicureans, the Cyrenaics pursued a way of life in which moments of pleasure, particularly bodily pleasure, held the highest value. In The Birth of Hedonism, Kurt Lampe provides the most comprehensive account in any language of Cyrenaic ideas and behavior, revolutionizing the understanding of this neglected but important school of philosophy. The Birth of Hedonism thoroughly and sympathetically reconstructs the doctrines and practices of the Cyrenaics, who were active between the fourth and third centuries BCE. The book examines not only Aristippus and the mainstream Cyrenaics, but also Hegesias, Anniceris, and Theodorus. Contrary to recent scholarship, the book shows that the Cyrenaics, despite giving primary value to discrete pleasurable experiences, accepted the dominant Greek philosophical belief that life-long happiness and the virtues that sustain it are the principal concerns of ethics. The book also offers the first in-depth effort to understand Theodorus's atheism and Hegesias's pessimism, both of which are extremely unusual in ancient Greek philosophy and which raise the interesting question of hedonism's relationship to pessimism and atheism. Finally, the book explores the "new Cyrenaicism" of the nineteenth-century writer and classicist Walter Pater, who drew out the enduring philosophical interest of Cyrenaic hedonism more than any other modern thinker.

Book The Life of William Ewart Gladstone

Download or read book The Life of William Ewart Gladstone written by John Morley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-10 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1903, this authorised biography of the Liberal Prime Minister Gladstone provides valuable insights into Victorian political life.