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	Course A209, Fifth-Century Athens: Democracy and City State The Bacchae and Other Plays (Penguin Classics) ISBN: 0140440445 Author: Euripides Publisher: Penguin Classics Release Date: 1954-10-30 Product Description The plays of Euripides have stimulated audiences since the fifth century BC. This volume, containing Phoenician Women, Bacchae, Iphigenia at Aulis, Orestes, and Rhesus completes the new editions of Euripides in Penguin Classics. UK Reviews, Pricing and Ordering Information. USA Reviews, Pricing and Ordering Information. The Histories (Penguin Classics) ISBN: 0140449086 Author: Herodotus Publisher: Penguin Classics Release Date: 2003-04-29 Product Description Translated by Aubrey de Sélincourt with an introduction and Notes by John M. Marincola. UK Reviews, Pricing and Ordering Information. USA Reviews, Pricing and Ordering Information. The History of the Peloponnesian War: Revised Edition (Penguin Classics) ISBN: 0140440399 Author: Thucydides Publisher: Penguin Classics Release Date: 1954-09-30 Product Description Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the struggle between Athens and Sparta stands an excellent chance of fulfilling the author's ambitious claim that the work "was done to last forever." The conflicts between the two empires over shipping, trade, and colonial expansion came to a head in 431 b.c. in Northern Greece, and the entire Greek world was plunged into 27 years of war. Thucydides applied a passion for accuracy and a contempt for myth and romance in compiling this exhaustively factual record of the disastrous conflict that eventually ended the Athenian empire. UK Reviews, Pricing and Ordering Information. USA Reviews, Pricing and Ordering Information. The Last Days of Socrates (Penguin Classics) ISBN: 0140449280 Author: Plato Publisher: Penguin Classics Release Date: 2003-03-27 Product DescriptionSynopsisAbout the Author The trial and condemnation of Socrates on charges of heresy and corrupting young minds is a defining moment in the history of Classical Athens. In tracing these events through four dialogues, Plato also developed his own philosophy, based on Socrates' manifesto for a life guided by self-responsibility. Euthyphro finds Socrates outside the court-house, debating the nature of piety, while The Apology is his robust rebuttal of the charges of impiety and a defence of the philosopher's life. In the Crito, while awaiting execution in prison, Socrates counters the arguments of friends urging him to escape. Finally, in the Phaedo, he is shown calmly confident in the face of death, skilfully arguing the case for the immortality of the soul.The trial and condemnation of Socrates on charges of heresy and corrupting young minds is a defining moment in the history of Classical Athens. In tracing these events through four dialogues, Plato also developed his own philosophy, based on Socrates' manifesto for a life guided by self-responsibility. Euthyphro finds Socrates outside the court-house, debating the nature of piety, while The Apology is his robust rebuttal of the charges of impiety and a defence of the philosopher's life. In the Crito, while awaiting execution in prison, Socrates counters the arguments of friends urging him to escape. Finally, in the Phaedo, he is shown calmly confident in the face of death, skilfully arguing the case for the immortality of the soul.Plato (c.427-347 BC) stands with Socrates and Aristotle as one of the shapers of the whole intellectual tradition of the West. He founded the Athenian Academy, the first permanent institution devoted to philosophical research and teaching, and the prototype of all Western universities. Hugh Tredennick was Dean of the Faculty of Arts at London University. Harold Tarrant is Senior Lecturer in Classics at the Univesity of Sydney. UK Reviews, Pricing and Ordering Information. USA Reviews, Pricing and Ordering Information. Lysistrata and Other Plays (Penguin Classics) ISBN: 0140448144 Author: Aristophanes Publisher: Penguin Classics Release Date: 2003-04-29 Product Description Writing at the time of political and social crisis in Athens Aristophanes was an eloquent yet bawdy challenger to the demagogue and the sophist. The Achanians is a plea for peace set against the background of the long war with Sparta. In Lysistrata a band of women tap into the awesome power of sex in order to end a war. The darker comedy of The Clouds satirizes Athenian philosophers, Socrates in particular, and reflects the uncertainties of a generation in which all traditional religious and ethical beliefs were being challenged. UK Reviews, Pricing and Ordering Information. USA Reviews, Pricing and Ordering Information. Prometheus Bound and Other Plays: The Suppliants; Seven Against Thebes; The Persians (Classics) ISBN: 0140441123 Author: Aeschylus Publisher: Longman Release Date: 2001-02-02 Synopsis Aeschylus (525-456 BC) brought a new grandeur and epic sweep to the drama of classical Athens, raising it to the status of high art. In "Prometheus Bound", the defiant Titan Prometheus is brutally punished by Zeus for daring to improve the state of wretchedness and servitude in which mankind is kept. "The Suppliants" tells the story of the fifty daughters of Danaus who must flee to escape enforced marriages, while "Seven Against Thebes" shows the inexorable downfall of the last members of the cursed family of Oedipus. And "The Persians", the only Greek tragedy to deal with events from recent Athenian history, depicts the aftermath of the defeat of Persia in the battle of Salamis, with a sympathetic portrayal of its disgraced King Xerxes. Philip Vellacott's evocative translation is accompanied by an introduction, with individual discussions of the plays, and their sources in history and mythology. UK Reviews, Pricing and Ordering Information. USA Reviews, Pricing and Ordering Information. The Three Theban Plays (Penguin Classics) ISBN: 0140444254 Author: Sophocles Publisher: Penguin Classics Release Date: 2000-01-03 Amazon.com Aristotle called "Oedipus The King," the second-written of the three Theban plays written by Sophocles, the masterpiece of the whole of Greek theater. Today, nearly 2,500 years after Sophocles wrote, scholars and audiences still consider it one of the most powerful dramatic works ever made. Freud sure did. The three plays--"Antigone," "Oedipus the King," and "Oedipus at Colonus"--are not strictly a trilogy, but all are based on the Theban myths that were old even in Sophocles' time. This particular edition was rendered by Robert Fagles, perhaps the best translator of the Greek classics into English. UK Reviews, Pricing and Ordering Information. USA Reviews, Pricing and Ordering Information.
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