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Liverpool University Press Euripides: Cyclops and Major Fragments of Greek
Book SynopsisSatyric is the most thinly attested genre of Greek drama, but it appears to have been the oldest and according to Aristotle formative for tragedy. By the 5th Century BC at Athens it shared most of its compositional elements with tragedy, to which it became an adjunct; for at the annual great dramatic festivals, it was performed only together with, and after, the three tragedies which each poet was required to present in competition. It was in contrast with them, aesthetically and emotionally, its plays being considerably shorter and simpler; coarse and half-way to comedy, it burlesqued heroic and tragic myth, frequently that just dramatised and performed in the tragedies. Euripides'Cyclops is the only satyr-play which survives complete. It is generally held to be the poet's late work, but its companion tragedies are not identifiable. Its title alone signals its content, Odysseus' escape from the one-eyed, man-eating monster, familiar from Book 9 of Homer's Odyssey. Because of its uniqueness, Cyclops could afford only a limited idea of satyric drama's range, which the many but brief quotations from other authors and plays barely coloured. Our knowledge and appreciation of the genre have been greatly enlarged, however, by recovery since the early 20th Century of considerable fragments of Aeschylus, Euripides' predecessor, and of Sophocles, his contemporary - but not, so far, of Euripides himself. This volume provides English readers for the first time with all the most important texts of satyric drama, with facing-page translation, substantial introduction and detailed commentary. It includes not only the major papyri, but very many shorter fragments of importance, both on papyrus and in quotation, from the 5th to the 3rd Centuries; there are also one or two texts whose interest lies in their problematic ascription to the genre at all. The intention is to illustrate it as fully as practicable.Trade Review'This volume, in short, will be game-changing, … [it] marks a formidable work of scholarship in its own right, an accessible compilation of the genre’s remains and a spectacular addition to the teacher’s toolbox.' Journal of Hellenic StudiesTable of ContentsGeneral Introduction General Bibliography Euripides’Cyclops Critical Apparatus ΚΥΚΛΩΨ/ CYCLOPS Commentary MAJOR FRAGMENTS OF GREEK SATYRIC DRAMA Introductory Note Bibliography and Abbreviations Advice to Readers Bibliographical Guidance Pratinas 4 F 3: Hyporchema Aeschylus Glaucus the Sea-god (Glaucus Marinus) Net-Fishers (Dictyulci) Sacred Delegates or Isthmian Contestants (Theori or Isthmiastae) Prometheus the Fire-Kindler (Prometheus Pyrkaeus) Sisyphus the Runaway and/or Stone-Roller (Sisyphus Drapetes or Petrokulistes) F 281a, b, *451n: from a‘Justice’ play Sophocles Lovers of Achilles (Achillis Amatores) Inachus Trackers (Ichneutae) Oeneus, F **1130 Euripides Autolycus A and B Eurystheus Sciron Syleus Ion of Chios 19 F 17a–33a, *59: Omphale Achaeus I Selected shorter fragments, from The Games (Ludi, 20 F 3–4), Aethon (F 6–11), Alcmeon (F 12–14), Hephaestus (F 17), Linus (F 26), The Fates (Fata, F 27–8), Omphale (F 33–4) Critias (?) 43 F 19: from a‘Sisyphus’ play Python 91 F 1: Agen Sositheus 99 F 2–3: Daphnis or Lityerses Lycophron 100 F 2–4: Menedemus Anonymous Adespota F 646a Adespota F 655: from an‘Atlas’ play Adespota F 667a: from a‘Medea’ play A new (2007) adespoton: satyric (?) Appendix: summary details of some other satyr-plays, by Pratinas, Aeschylus, Aristias, Sophocles, Euripides, Astydamas II and Chaeremon Index of Motifs and Characters General Index
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Liverpool University Press Euripides: Cyclops and Major Fragments of Greek
Book SynopsisSatyric is the most thinly attested genre of Greek drama, but it appears to have been the oldest and according to Aristotle formative for tragedy. By the 5th Century BC at Athens it shared most of its compositional elements with tragedy, to which it became an adjunct; for at the annual great dramatic festivals, it was performed only together with, and after, the three tragedies which each poet was required to present in competition. It was in contrast with them, aesthetically and emotionally, its plays being considerably shorter and simpler; coarse and half-way to comedy, it burlesqued heroic and tragic myth, frequently that just dramatised and performed in the tragedies. Euripides'Cyclops is the only satyr-play which survives complete. It is generally held to be the poet's late work, but its companion tragedies are not identifiable. Its title alone signals its content, Odysseus' escape from the one-eyed, man-eating monster, familiar from Book 9 of Homer's Odyssey. Because of its uniqueness, Cyclops could afford only a limited idea of satyric drama's range, which the many but brief quotations from other authors and plays barely coloured. Our knowledge and appreciation of the genre have been greatly enlarged, however, by recovery since the early 20th Century of considerable fragments of Aeschylus, Euripides' predecessor, and of Sophocles, his contemporary - but not, so far, of Euripides himself. This volume provides English readers for the first time with all the most important texts of satyric drama, with facing-page translation, substantial introduction and detailed commentary. It includes not only the major papyri, but very many shorter fragments of importance, both on papyrus and in quotation, from the 5th to the 3rd Centuries; there are also one or two texts whose interest lies in their problematic ascription to the genre at all. The intention is to illustrate it as fully as practicable.Trade Review'This volume, in short, will be game-changing, … [it] marks a formidable work of scholarship in its own right, an accessible compilation of the genre’s remains and a spectacular addition to the teacher’s toolbox.' Journal of Hellenic StudiesTable of ContentsGeneral Introduction General Bibliography Euripides’Cyclops Critical Apparatus ΚΥΚΛΩΨ/ CYCLOPS Commentary MAJOR FRAGMENTS OF GREEK SATYRIC DRAMA Introductory Note Bibliography and Abbreviations Advice to Readers Bibliographical Guidance Pratinas 4 F 3: Hyporchema Aeschylus Glaucus the Sea-god (Glaucus Marinus) Net-Fishers (Dictyulci) Sacred Delegates or Isthmian Contestants (Theori or Isthmiastae) Prometheus the Fire-Kindler (Prometheus Pyrkaeus) Sisyphus the Runaway and/or Stone-Roller (Sisyphus Drapetes or Petrokulistes) F 281a, b, *451n: from a‘Justice’ play Sophocles Lovers of Achilles (Achillis Amatores) Inachus Trackers (Ichneutae) Oeneus, F **1130 Euripides Autolycus A and B Eurystheus Sciron Syleus Ion of Chios 19 F 17a–33a, *59: Omphale Achaeus I Selected shorter fragments, from The Games (Ludi, 20 F 3–4), Aethon (F 6–11), Alcmeon (F 12–14), Hephaestus (F 17), Linus (F 26), The Fates (Fata, F 27–8), Omphale (F 33–4) Critias (?) 43 F 19: from a‘Sisyphus’ play Python 91 F 1: Agen Sositheus 99 F 2–3: Daphnis or Lityerses Lycophron 100 F 2–4: Menedemus Anonymous Adespota F 646a Adespota F 655: from an‘Atlas’ play Adespota F 667a: from a‘Medea’ play A new (2007) adespoton: satyric (?) Appendix: summary details of some other satyr-plays, by Pratinas, Aeschylus, Aristias, Sophocles, Euripides, Astydamas II and Chaeremon Index of Motifs and Characters General Index
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Liverpool University Press Aeschylus: Suppliant Women
Book SynopsisAeschylus starts his tetralogy boldly, making the Danaids themselves prologue, chorus and protagonist. Guided by their father Danaus, these girls have fled from Egypt, where their cousins want to marry them, to seek asylum in Argos: they claim descent from Io, who was driven to Egypt five generations earlier when Zeus' love for her was detected by jealous Hera. In the long first movement of the play the Danaids argue their claim, pressing it with song and dance of pathos and power, upon the reluctant Argive king. He, forced eventually by their threat of suicide, puts the case to his people, who vote to accept the girls, but while they sing blessings on Argos, Danaus spies their cousins' ships arriving. Left on their own when he goes for help, they sing more seriously of suicide, and seek sanctuary upstage when the Egyptians enter. A remarkable tussle of two choruses ensues; in the nick of time the king arrives, sees off the Egyptians (but they promise a return) and offers his hospitality. The girls want their father, however, and go when guided by him and his escort of Argive soldiers. Their final song has elements of wedding song in it; they share it, provocatively, with the Argives. The rest of the tetralogy is lost, but enough is known to indicate that marriage is the theme. Aeschylus probably surprised his first audience in his use of the myth; his command of theatre and poetry is fully mature. A.J.Bowen is an Emeritus Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge. From 1993 to 2007 he was Orator of the University.Trade ReviewThis is a fine commentary, in which the editor has omitted no point of significance or dispute.Colin Leach, Classics for AllTable of Contents Introduction: Synopsis (1) Text and facing translation Apparatus criticus Commentary Bibliography Index
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Liverpool University Press Apuleius: Metamorphoses Book I
Book SynopsisApuleius' Metamorphoses or The Golden Ass, our only complete Latin novel, tells the story of Lucius, a young man turned into a donkey by magic because of his unfettered curiosity. After many adventures he is finally saved by the goddess Isis, whose follower he becomes. The famous first book of the novel introduces the protagonist's character, his interest in magic and his gullibility, but also important themes of the novel such as metamorphosis from man into beast. Lucius listens to stories about magic and witchcraft told to him on his journey to ancient Thessaly and narrates them to the reader. A substantial part of the first book accordingly concentrates on the self-contained tale about a certain Socrates and his unhappy experiences with murderous Thessalian witches. Apuleius himself had been put on trial for allegedly using erotic magic to make his future wife fall in love with him, a theme which also appears in Metamorphoses 1. Throughout the novel, Apuleius portrays Lucius as an unreliable first person narrator and thus implicates the reader of the novel in the same character fault that drives its protagonist: curiosity. This edition of Book I presents the Latin text with a modern translation, substantial introduction and accompanying commentary. The author Apuleius is discussed in the literary environment of the second century AD together with key themes of the first book and the novel as a whole. Special attention is given to ancient magic, the roles of philosophy and the goddess Isis in the novel as well as the extensive reception of the first book in literature up to modern times. The commentary illustrates Apuleius' text as a densely constructed literary work and explains literary allusions as well as philosophical, historical and religious contexts.Trade ReviewReviews'This is a useful volume for students and readers who wish to know more about the Metamorphoses, without having to face the breathtaking flood of modern scholarship on Apuleius and the Roman novel.'Bryn Mawr, Classical Review'An impressive and learned book that makes original contributions to Apuleian scholarship and presents complex issues in a clear manner.'Bryn Mawr, Classical Review'On the whole, the amount of detail provided is appropriate both for scholarly consultation and for graduate level instruction.'Luca Graverini, Journal of Roman Studies Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroductionBibliographyMetamorphoses or The Golden Ass Book 1 (Text and Translation)CommentaryIndex
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Liverpool University Press Apuleius: Metamorphoses Book I
Book SynopsisApuleius' Metamorphoses or The Golden Ass, our only complete Latin novel, tells the story of Lucius, a young man turned into a donkey by magic because of his unfettered curiosity. After many adventures he is finally saved by the goddess Isis, whose follower he becomes. The famous first book of the novel introduces the protagonist's character, his interest in magic and his gullibility, but also important themes of the novel such as metamorphosis from man into beast. Lucius listens to stories about magic and witchcraft told to him on his journey to ancient Thessaly and narrates them to the reader. A substantial part of the first book accordingly concentrates on the self-contained tale about a certain Socrates and his unhappy experiences with murderous Thessalian witches. Apuleius himself had been put on trial for allegedly using erotic magic to make his future wife fall in love with him, a theme which also appears in Metamorphoses 1. Throughout the novel, Apuleius portrays Lucius as an unreliable first person narrator and thus implicates the reader of the novel in the same character fault that drives its protagonist: curiosity. This edition of Book I presents the Latin text with a modern translation, substantial introduction and accompanying commentary. The author Apuleius is discussed in the literary environment of the second century AD together with key themes of the first book and the novel as a whole. Special attention is given to ancient magic, the roles of philosophy and the goddess Isis in the novel as well as the extensive reception of the first book in literature up to modern times. The commentary illustrates Apuleius' text as a densely constructed literary work and explains literary allusions as well as philosophical, historical and religious contexts.Trade ReviewReviews'This is a useful volume for students and readers who wish to know more about the Metamorphoses, without having to face the breathtaking flood of modern scholarship on Apuleius and the Roman novel.'Bryn Mawr, Classical Review'An impressive and learned book that makes original contributions to Apuleian scholarship and presents complex issues in a clear manner.'Bryn Mawr, Classical Review'On the whole, the amount of detail provided is appropriate both for scholarly consultation and for graduate level instruction.'Luca Graverini, Journal of Roman Studies Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroductionBibliographyMetamorphoses or The Golden Ass Book 1 (Text and Translation)CommentaryIndex
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Liverpool University Press Thucydides: History Book I
Book SynopsisWith this edition of Book I, P. J. Rhodes provides the ‘prequel’ to his editions of Thucydides’ books on the Archidamian War (II, III and IV.1–V.24). As before, he provides an Introduction on Thucydides’ history and on the Peloponnesian War, a Greek text with selective critical apparatus and facing translation, and a commentary which will be useful both to specialists and to readers with little or no Greek, and which assumes no previous acquaintance with Thucydides. Matters of text and language are discussed where necessary, but the emphasis is on Thucydides’ subject-matter — the Peloponnesian War presented as the greatest war in Greek history, and accounts of the events directly leading to the war and of the growth of Athenian power since the Persian Wars which explain why this war between the two great powers of fifth-century Greece was fought — and on the way in which he has treated it.Table of ContentsPreface References Map of Greece and the Aegean Introduction 1. Thucydides and his History 2. The Pentecontaetia and the Peloponnesian War 3. Summary of Book I 4. Abbreviations used in Critical Apparatus Bibliography Θουκυδίδου Ξυγγραφῆς Α / Thucydides: History I Commentary Index
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Liverpool University Press Thucydides: History Book I
Book SynopsisWith this edition of Book I, P. J. Rhodes provides the ‘prequel’ to his editions of Thucydides’ books on the Archidamian War (II, III and IV.1–V.24). As before, he provides an Introduction on Thucydides’ history and on the Peloponnesian War, a Greek text with selective critical apparatus and facing translation, and a commentary which will be useful both to specialists and to readers with little or no Greek, and which assumes no previous acquaintance with Thucydides. Matters of text and language are discussed where necessary, but the emphasis is on Thucydides’ subject-matter — the Peloponnesian War presented as the greatest war in Greek history, and accounts of the events directly leading to the war and of the growth of Athenian power since the Persian Wars which explain why this war between the two great powers of fifth-century Greece was fought — and on the way in which he has treated it.Table of ContentsPreface References Map of Greece and the Aegean Introduction 1. Thucydides and his History 2. The Pentecontaetia and the Peloponnesian War 3. Summary of Book I 4. Abbreviations used in Critical Apparatus Bibliography Θουκυδίδου Ξυγγραφῆς Α / Thucydides: History I Commentary Index
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Classical Press of Wales Misery and Forgiveness in Euripides: Meaning and
Book SynopsisThe tragedies of Euripides are among the most admired works of Greek literature. They are valued especially in our own day for their sceptical attitude to authority and divinity, for their psychological complexity and for their sympathetic but unsentimental portrayal of assertive women. In this striking new monograph, Boris Nikolsky reinterprets a Euripidean tragedy which combines these qualities to the highest degree, the Hippolytus. Nikolsky questions the current gender and psychoanalytical approaches to Hippolytus and challenges the widespread interpretations of the play as being concerned with the irresistible force of love and the inevitability of punishment for those who underestimate its power. He reads the play in terms of its own culture and argues that Euripides' primary interest lies rather in the sphere of morality. Arguing from the dramatic structure of Hippolytus, its imagery and the problems of its production, the author proposes a new interpretation of the play's main theme: humans turn out to be not culprits but victims of fate, their will always tends towards virtue, but their natural weakness and the ambivalence of virtue itself lead them to wrong actions. In consequence, it is exoneration and forgiveness that are shown to be the highest and only pure moral values.
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NIAS Press Han Xin’s Challenge: A Tale of the Founding of
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