Reconstructing the Classics collects across three volumes over ninety papers by P. J. Finglass (Henry Overton Wills Professor of Greek at the University of Bristol, and formerly Professor of Greek…

Charged with female agency, Medea is a powerful story of betrayal, desperation, and horrifying revenge. The classic Greek tragedy is brought to life in this lyrical translation by Augusta Webster.

The Trojan women of Euripides, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made…

This book rethinks Aeschylean theatre as a practice that combines elements of storytelling with enacted responses to them, and reads the literary remains of this practice from cross-generic perspectives (ancient…

The only surviving play of Aeschylus to be based on a historical event-the Greek victory at Salamis just a few years before the play was written-Persians appears in Deborah H…

In these three war plays, Euripides subjects the sufferings of Troy’s survivors to a harrowing examination. Yet the battleground of the aftermath of war is one in which the women…

The book analyses some of the formal and dramaturgical aspects of Euripides' tragedies in order to shed new light on the relationships between drama and politics. While the contributors agree…

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