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A Very Queer Family Indeed: Sex, Religion, and the Bensons in Victorian Britain

Product Description: “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...read more

By Simon Goldhill

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9780226393780 | Univ of Chicago Pr, October 3, 2016, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: “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.

The Buried Life of Things: How Objects Made History in Nineteenth-century Britain

By Simon Goldhill

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9781107087484 | Cambridge Univ Pr, January 31, 2015, cover price $55.00

Sophocles and the Language of Tragedy

Product Description: 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...read more

By Simon Goldhill

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9780199796274 | Oxford Univ Pr, March 5, 2012, cover price $38.95 | About this edition: 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.

Paperback:

9780190226596 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, February 1, 2015), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: 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.

Sophocles and the Greek Tragic Tradition

By Simon Goldhill (editor) and Edith Hall (editor)

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9781107404045 | Reissue edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, December 15, 2011), cover price $54.99

The Temple Of Jerusalem

Product Description: It was destroyed nearly 2,000 years ago, and yet the Temple of Jerusalem―cultural memory, symbol, and site―remains one of the most powerful, and most contested, buildings in the world. This glorious structure, imagined and re-imagined, reconsidered and reinterpreted again and again over two millennia, emerges in all its historical, cultural, and religious significance in Simon Goldhill’s account...read more

By Simon Goldhill

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9780674017979 | Harvard Univ Pr, March 31, 2005, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The Temple of Jerusalem's shifting significance is explored in a study that offers unique insight into where Judaism, Christianity, and Islam differ in interpreting their shared inheritance and explores the site's cultural, religious, artistic, and historical importance.

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9780674061897 | Harvard Univ Pr, October 15, 2011, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: It was destroyed nearly 2,000 years ago, and yet the Temple of Jerusalem―cultural memory, symbol, and site―remains one of the most powerful, and most contested, buildings in the world.

Freud's Couch, Scott's Buttocks, Bronte's Grave

Product Description: 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...read more

By Simon Goldhill

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9780226301310 | Univ of Chicago Pr, October 24, 2011, cover price $22.50 | About this edition: The Victorian era was the high point of literary tourism.

Victorian Culture and Classical Antiquity: Art, Opera, Fiction, and the Proclamation of Modernity

Product Description: 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 obsession with antiquity...read more

By Simon Goldhill

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9780691149844 | Princeton Univ Pr, July 18, 2011, cover price $52.00 | About this edition: How did the Victorians engage with the ancient world?

Rethinking Revolutions Through Ancient Greece

Product Description: From the time of the Roman Empire onwards, fifth- and fourth-century Greece have been held to be the period and place in which civilization as the West knows it developed. Classical scholars have sought to justify these claims in detail by describing developments in fields such as democratic politics, art, rationality, historiography, literature, philosophy, medicine and music, in which classical Greece has been held to have made a revolutionary contribution...read more

By Simon Goldhill (editor) and Robin Osborne (editor)

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9780521862127 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, October 31, 2006), cover price $99.99 | About this edition: From the time of the Roman Empire onwards, fifth- and fourth-century Greece have been held to be the period and place in which civilization as the West knows it developed.

Jerusalem: City of Longing

By Simon Goldhill

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Hardcover:

9780674028661 | Belknap Pr, May 16, 2008, cover price $27.95

Paperback:

9780674034686 | Belknap Pr, October 30, 2009, cover price $23.00

The End of Dialogue in Antiquity

Product Description: 'Dialogue' was invented as a written form in democratic Athens and made a celebrated and popular literary and philosophical style by Plato. Yet it almost completely disappeared in the Christian empire of late antiquity. This book, a general and systematic study of the genre in antiquity, asks: who wrote dialogues and why? Why did dialogue no longer attract writers in the later period in the same way? Investigating dialogue goes to the heart of the central issues of power, authority, openness and playfulness in changing cultural contexts...read more

By Simon Goldhill (editor)

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9780521887748 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, January 19, 2009), cover price $99.99 | About this edition: 'Dialogue' was invented as a written form in democratic Athens and made a celebrated and popular literary and philosophical style by Plato.

Classics And the Uses of Reception

By Charles Martindale (editor) and Richard F. Thomas (editor)

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Miscellaneous:

9780470775448 | Blackwell Pub, April 15, 2008, cover price $45.95

How to Stage Greek Tragedy Today

Product Description: 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...read more

By Simon Goldhill

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Hardcover:

9780226301273 | Univ of Chicago Pr, November 1, 2007, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: From the stages of Broadway and London to university campuses, Paris, and the bourgeoning theaters of Africa, Greek tragedy remains constantly in production.

Paperback:

9780226301280 | Univ of Chicago Pr, November 15, 2007, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: From the stages of Broadway and London to university campuses, Paris, and the bourgeoning theaters of Africa, Greek tragedy remains constantly in production.

Visualizing the Tragic: Drama, Myth, and Ritual in Greek Art and Literature : Essays in Honour of Froma Zeitlin

By Jas Elsner (editor), Helene P. Foley (editor), Simon Goldhill (editor) and Chris Kraus (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780199276028 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, July 26, 2007, cover price $200.00

Being Greek Under Rome: Cultural Identity, the Second Sophistic and the Development of Empire

Product Description: These especially commissioned essays open up a fascinating and novel perspective on a crucial era of Western culture. In the second century CE the Roman empire dominated the Mediterranean, but Greek culture maintained its huge prestige...read more

By Simon Goldhill (editor)

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9780521663175 | Cambridge Univ Pr, June 1, 2001, cover price $120.00 | About this edition: These especially commissioned essays open up a fascinating and novel perspective on a crucial era of Western culture.

Paperback:

9780521030878 | Cambridge Univ Pr, January 29, 2007, cover price $54.99 | About this edition: These especially commissioned essays open up a fascinating and novel perspective on a crucial era of Western culture.

Classics And the Uses of Reception

Product Description: This landmark collection presents a wide variety of viewpoints on the value and role of reception theory within the modern discipline of classics. A pioneering collection, looking at the role reception theory plays, or could play, within the modern discipline of classics...read more

By William Batstone (contributor), Katie Fleming (contributor), Simon Goldhill (contributor), Charles Martindale (editor) and Richard F. Thomas (editor)

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9781405131469 | 1 edition (Blackwell Pub, August 18, 2006), cover price $150.95 | About this edition: This landmark collection presents a wide variety of viewpoints on the value and role of reception theory within the modern discipline of classics.

Paperback:

9781405131452 | 1 edition (Blackwell Pub, August 18, 2006), cover price $60.95 | About this edition: This landmark collection presents a wide variety of viewpoints on the value and role of reception theory within the modern discipline of classics.

The Invention of Prose

By Simon Goldhill

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9780198525233 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, April 10, 2006), cover price $29.99

Love, Sex & Tragedy: How the Ancient World Shapes Our Lives

By Simon Goldhill

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9780226301198 | 2 edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, November 1, 2005), cover price $16.00

9780080210360, titled "Red Cross Story" | Pergamon Pr, June 1, 1978, cover price $1.60 | also contains Red Cross Story

Love , Sex & Tragedy: Love , Sex & Tragedy

A noted classicist offers a survey of the Greek and Roman roots of everything from hard bodies to political systems, tracing follies and philosophical questions through the centuries to the birthplace of Western civilization.

By Simon Goldhill

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9780226301174 | Univ of Chicago Pr, October 15, 2004, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: A noted classicist offers a survey of the Greek and Roman roots of everything from hard bodies to political systems, tracing follies and philosophical questions through the centuries to the birthplace of Western civilization.

Performance Culture And Athenian Democracy

Product Description: These new and especially commissioned essays discuss the ways in which performance is central to the practice and ideology of democracy in classical Athens. From theater to law court to gymnasium to symposium, performance is a basic part of Athenian society; how do these different areas interrelate and inform the politics and culture of the democratic city? Drama, rhetoric, philosophy, literature and art are all discussed by leading scholars in this interdisciplinary volume...read more

By Simon Goldhill (editor) and Robin Osborne (editor)

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9780521642477 | Cambridge Univ Pr, July 1, 1999, cover price $120.00 | About this edition: These new and especially commissioned essays discuss the ways in which performance is central to the practice and ideology of democracy in classical Athens.

Paperback:

9780521604314 | Reissue edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, June 30, 2004), cover price $54.99 | About this edition: These new and especially commissioned essays discuss the ways in which performance is central to the practice and ideology of democracy in classical Athens.

Language, Sexuality, Narrative, the Oresteia

A detailed analysis of Aeschylus's trilogy focuses on communication, paradox, and the law, and makes use of modern anthropological and literary theory

By Simon Goldhill

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9780521265355 | Cambridge Univ Pr, February 1, 1985, cover price $79.95 | About this edition: A detailed analysis of Aeschylus's trilogy focuses on communication, paradox, and the law, and makes use of modern anthropological and literary theory

Paperback:

9780521604307, titled "Language, Sexuality, Narrative: The Oresteia" | Cambridge Univ Pr, May 31, 2004, cover price $44.99

Aeschylus: The Oresteia : A Student Guide

Simon Goldhill focuses on the play's themes--justice, sexual politics, violence, and the role of man in ancient Greek culture--in this general introduction to Aeschylus' Oresteia, one of the most important and influential of all Greek dramas. After exploring how Aeschylus constructs a myth for the city in which he lived, a final chapter considers the influence of the Oresteia on more contemporary theater. The volume's organized structure and guide to further reading will make it an invaluable reference for students and teachers. First Edition Hb (1992): 0-521-40293-X First Edition Pb (1992): 0-521-40853-9 (view table of contents)

By Simon Goldhill

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9780521832298 | 2 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, January 19, 2004), cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Simon Goldhill focuses on the play's themes--justice, sexual politics, violence, and the role of man in ancient Greek culture--in this general introduction to Aeschylus' Oresteia, one of the most important and influential of all Greek dramas.

Paperback:

9780521539814 | 2 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, February 1, 2004), cover price $25.99

Who Needs Greek: Contests in the Cultural History of Hellenism

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By Simon Goldhill

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Hardcover:

9780521812283 | Cambridge Univ Pr, March 1, 2002, cover price $99.99

Paperback:

9780521011761, titled "Who Needs Greek?: Contests in the Cultural History of Hellenism" | Cambridge Univ Pr, April 29, 2002, cover price $44.99

Foucault's Virginity: Ancient Erotic Fiction and the History of Sexuality

Product Description: This is a study of how sex and sexuality were written about in the first centuries of this era, a central period in the history of sexuality. Writing with the same wit and verve as the ancient writers he engages with, Simon Goldhill shows how the standard accounts of sexuality in this period are distorted by ignoring the sexy, ironic and often bizarre texts of the ancient novel, erotic poetry and humorous dialogues...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780521473729 | Cambridge Univ Pr, March 1, 1995, cover price $51.99 | About this edition: This is a study of how sex and sexuality were written about in the first centuries of this era, a central period in the history of sexuality.

Paperback:

9780521479349 | Cambridge Univ Pr, June 1, 1995, cover price $44.99 | About this edition: This is a study of how sex and sexuality were written about in the first centuries of this era, a central period in the history of sexuality.

Art and Text in Ancient Greece

Product Description: These specially commissioned essays offer a radical and fresh appraisal of how ancient Greek art was looked at, written about and discussed in antiquity. The first section focuses on fifth-century culture, examining painted pottery, architecture and sculpture, and theatrical uses of set-piece descriptions...read more

By Simon Goldhill and Robin Osborne (editor)

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9780521411851 | Cambridge Univ Pr, March 1, 1994, cover price $74.95 | About this edition: These specially commissioned essays offer a radical and fresh appraisal of how ancient Greek art was looked at, written about and discussed in antiquity.

Aeschylus: The Oresteia

Product Description: This is the first general introduction in English to Aeschylus's Oresteia, the most important and most influential of all Greek dramas. It discusses the Greek drama festival and the social and political background of Greek tragedy, and offers a reading of this central trilogy...read more

By Simon Goldhill

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Hardcover:

9780521402934 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, September 25, 1992), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: This is the first general introduction in English to Aeschylus's Oresteia, the most important and most influential of all Greek dramas.

Paperback:

9780521408530 | Cambridge Univ Pr, September 1, 1992, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: This is the first general introduction in English to Aeschylus's Oresteia, the most important and most influential of all Greek dramas.

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