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      Helping Friends and Harming Enemies

      Ruby Blondell

      Sophocles is often considered the least philosophical of the three great Greek tragedians. By analysing a fundamental principle of Greek popular ethics, this study challenged that presumption, and remains of…

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      Helping Friends and Harming Enemies

      Ruby Blondell

      Sophocles is often considered the least philosophical of the three great Greek tragedians. By analysing a fundamental principle of Greek popular ethics, this study challenged that presumption, and remains of…

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      Helen of Troy in Hollywood

      Ruby Blondell

      How a legendary woman from classical antiquity has come to embody the threat of transcendent beauty in movies and TV.

      Helen of Troy in Hollywood examines the figure of the…

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      The Play of Character in Plato’s Dialogues

      Ruby Blondell (University of Washington)

      This book provides an interpretation of Plato in general and several dialogues in particular, from the point of view of dramatic characterization. It aims to show traditional ‘analytical’ philosophical interpreters…

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      The Play of Character in Plato’s Dialogues

      Ruby Blondell (University of Washington)

      Provides an interpretation of Plato from the point of view of dramatic characterization.

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      The Theban Plays: Antigone, King Oidipous and Oidipous at Colonus

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      English translations of three of Sophocles’ Oidipous Cycle: King Oidipous, Oidipous at Colonus, and Antigone. Focus Classical Library provides close translations with notes and essays to provide access to understanding…

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      Antigone

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      Antigone, defying her uncle Creon’s decree that her brother should remain unburied, challenges the morality of man’s law overruling the laws of the gods. The clash between her and Creon…

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      Helen of Troy: Beauty, Myth, Devastation

      Ruby Blondell (Professor of Classics, Professor of Classics, University of Washington)

      Helen of Troy engages with the ancient origins of the persistent anxiety about female beauty, focusing on this key figure from ancient Greek culture in a way that both extends…

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      Helen of Troy: Beauty, Myth, Devastation

      Ruby Blondell (Professor of Classics, Professor of Classics, University of Washington)

      Helen of Troy engages with the ancient origins of the persistent anxiety about female beauty, focusing on this key figure from ancient Greek culture in a way that both extends…

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      Ancient Sex: New Essays

      Kirk Ormand

      Elucidates some of the ways that ancient Greek and Roman texts and visual arts articulate a culturally specific discourse about sexual matters.

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      Women on the Edge: Four Plays by Euripides Alcestis Medea Helen Iphigenia at Aulis

      An exploration of women and their roles in the work of Euripides. The four of Euripides’ plays covered are Medea , Alcestis , Helen and Iphigenia at Aulis .

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      Women on the Edge: Four Plays by Euripides Alcestis Medea Helen Iphigenia at Aulis

      An exploration of women and their roles in the work of Euripides. The translations help readers locate the plays within their original social, cultural and performance context and mediate between…

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      Michael Moorcock’s Elric Vol. 1: The Ruby Throne

      Julien Blondel

      Eric, the albino emperor, has ruled Melnibone for millennia. However, Elric’s empire is crumbling before him and now his envious cousin and prince of Melnibone, Yyrkoon, plots to claim the…

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      Plato’s Symposium: Issues in Interpretation and Reception

      In his Symposium, Plato crafted speeches in praise of love that has influenced writers and artists from antiquity to the present. But questions remain concerning the meaning of specific features…

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      Who Speaks for Plato?: Studies in Platonic Anonymity

      Contributors examine a premise of traditional readings of Plato’s dialogues: that Plato’s own philosophical dialogues and arguments can be read off the statements made in the dialogues by Socrates and…

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      Who Speaks for Plato?: Studies in Platonic Anonymity

      Contributors examine a premise of traditional readings of Plato’s dialogues: that Plat’s own philosophical dialogues and arguments can be read off the statements made in the dialogues by Socrates and…

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