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What made the Greeks unique in their time and why their influence lives on today. The ancient Greeks invented democracy, theater, rational science, and philosophy. They built the Parthenon and the Library of Alexandria. They wrote down the timeless myths of Odysseus and Oedipus, and the histories of Leonidas’s three hundred Spartans and Alexander the Great. But understanding these uniquely influential people has been hampered by their diffusion across the entire Mediterranean. Most ancient Greeks did not live in what is now Greece but in settlements scattered across Turkey, Syria, Egypt, Libya, France, Italy, Bulgaria, Russia, and Ukraine. They never formed a single unified social or political entity. Acclaimed classics scholar Edith Hall’s Introducing the Ancient Greeks is the first book to offer a synthesis of the entire ancient Greek experience, from the rise of the Mycenaean kingdoms of the sixteenth century BC to the final victory of Christianity over paganism in AD 391. Each of the ten chapters visits a different Greek community at a different moment during the twenty centuries of ancient Greek history. In the process, the book makes a powerful original argument: A cluster of unique qualities made the Greeks special and made them the right people, at the right time, to take up the baton of human progress. According to Herodotus, the father of history, what made all Greeks identifiably Greek was their common descent from the same heroes, the way they sacrificed to their gods, their rules of decent behavior, and their beautiful language. Edith Hall argues, however, that their mind-set was just as important as their awe-inspiring achievements. They were rebellious, individualistic, inquisitive, open-minded, witty, rivalrous, admiring of excellence, articulate, and addicted to pleasure. But most important was their continuing identity as mariners, the restless seagoing lifestyle that brought them into contact with ethnically diverse peoples in countless new settlements, and the constant stimulus to technological innovation provided by their intense relationship with the sea.Expertly researched and elegantly told, Introducing the Ancient Greeks is an indispensable contribution to our understanding of the Greeks. 11 illustrations
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9780393239980 | W W Norton & Co Inc, June 16, 2014, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: What made the Greeks unique in their time and why their influence lives on today.
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9780393351163 | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, July 13, 2015), cover price $16.95
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9781847922588 | Gardners Books, April 2, 2015, cover price $31.40
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9780195392890 | Oxford Univ Pr, December 21, 2012, cover price $73.00
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9780801888694 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, June 11, 2008, cover price $38.00
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9781780762357 | Reprint edition (Tauris Academic Studies, August 15, 2012), cover price $24.50
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9780521887854 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, March 23, 2009), cover price $120.00
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9780199232512 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, February 1, 2010, cover price $69.00
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9780521651400 | Cambridge Univ Pr, December 1, 2002, cover price $135.00
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9780521045506 | Reprint edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, January 21, 2008), cover price $59.99
This volume of Euripides' plays offers new translations of the three great war plays Trojan Women, Hecuba, and Andromache, in which the sufferings of Troy's survivors are harrowingly depicted. With unparalleled intensity, Euripides--whom Aristotle called the most tragic of poets--describes the horrific brutality that both women and children undergo during war. Yet, in the war's aftermath, this brutality is challenged and a new battleground is revealed where the women of Troy evince an overwhelming greatness of spirit. We weep for the aged Hecuba in her name play and in Trojan Women, while at the same time we admire her resilience amid unrelieved suffering. Andromache, the slave-concubine of her husband's killer, endures her existence in the victor's country with a stoic nobility. Of their time yet timeless, these plays insist on the victory of the female spirit amid the horrors visited on them by the gods and men during war.
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9780199538812, titled "The Trojan Women and Other Plays: Hecuba, the Trojan Women, Andromache" | Reissue edition (Oxford Univ Pr, January 15, 2009), cover price $11.95
9780192839879 | Oxford Univ Pr, November 19, 2001, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: This volume of Euripides' plays offers new translations of the three great war plays Trojan Women, Hecuba, and Andromache, in which the sufferings of Troy's survivors are harrowingly depicted.
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9780199540525 | Reissue edition (Oxford Univ Pr, August 1, 2008), cover price $10.95
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9780199279678 | Oxford Univ Pr, April 12, 2007, cover price $225.00
Product Description: In this pioneering study Edith Hall explores the numerous different ways in which we can understand the relationship between the real, social world in which the Athenians lived and the theatrical roles that they invented. In twelve studies of role types and the theatrical conventions that contributed to their creation - including women in childbirth, drowning barbarians, horny satyrs, allegorical representations of Comedy, peasant farmers, tragic masks, and solo sung arias - she advances the argument that the interface between ancient Greek drama and social reality must be understood as a complicated and incessant process of mutual cross-pollination...read more
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9780199298891 | Oxford Univ Pr, December 7, 2006, cover price $190.00 | About this edition: In this pioneering study Edith Hall explores the numerous different ways in which we can understand the relationship between the real, social world in which the Athenians lived and the theatrical roles that they invented.
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9780199263516 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, February 23, 2006, cover price $230.00
Product Description: This lavishly illustrated book offers the first full, interdisciplinary investigation of the historical evidence for the presence of ancient Greek tragedy in the post-Restoration British theatre, where it reached a much wider audience--including women--than had access to the original texts...read more
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9780198150879 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, September 15, 2005, cover price $190.00 | About this edition: This lavishly illustrated book offers the first full, interdisciplinary investigation of the historical evidence for the presence of ancient Greek tragedy in the post-Restoration British theatre, where it reached a much wider audience--including women--than had access to the original texts.
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9780199259144 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, March 11, 2004, cover price $220.00
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9780199281312 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, March 10, 2005, cover price $70.00
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9781405156448 | Gardners Books, January 1, 2004, cover price $92.60
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9781405156455 | Gardners Books, January 1, 2004, cover price $30.80
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9780192832603 | Oxford Univ Pr, December 20, 2001, cover price $11.95
Product Description: The extensive performance history of Euripides' Medea since the Renaissance underscores its lasting social and political relevance. Here, papers drawn from an interdisciplinary colloquium hosted at Somerville College by the University of Oxford's Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama in August 1998 are augmented by additional essays from specialists...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9781900755351 | Legenda, October 1, 2000, cover price $99.00 | About this edition: The extensive performance history of Euripides' Medea since the Renaissance underscores its lasting social and political relevance.
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9780198150947 | Clarendon Pr, April 29, 1999, cover price $210.00
Product Description: This new translation brings to life the most profound tragedies of Euripides, described by Aristotle as "the most tragic of the poets." In these plays, Euripides places his characters under the pressure of intolerable circumstances, revealing them, to use his own words, "as they are...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780198149668 | Clarendon Pr, January 8, 1998, cover price $190.00 | About this edition: This new translation brings to life the most profound tragedies of Euripides, described by Aristotle as "the most tragic of the poets.
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9780192835888, titled "Antigone, Oedipus the King, Electra" | Oxford Univ Pr, September 17, 1998, cover price $9.95
9780192829221 | Oxford Univ Pr, May 5, 1994, cover price $7.95 | also contains Triple Cross
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9780198147800 | Reprint edition (Clarendon Pr, September 5, 1991), cover price $89.00
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