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      Love, Sex & Tragedy: How the Ancient World Shapes Our Lives

      Simon Goldhill (University of Cambridge)

      With enormous range and delight, classicist Goldhill lifts the veil on the modern inheritance of classical traditions and reveals the Greek and Roman roots of everything from the mania for…

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      The Invention of Prose

      Simon Goldhill (University of Cambridge)

      This is the first general study of the earliest writers of Greek prose for students and teachers alike.

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      The Buried Life of Things: How Objects Made History in Nineteenth-Century Britain

      Simon Goldhill (University of Cambridge)

      Simon Goldhill offers a fresh and exciting perspective on how the Victorians used material culture to express the past, particularly the biblical past and the past of classical antiquity. Goldhill…

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      Foucault’s Virginity: Ancient Erotic Fiction and the History of Sexuality

      Simon Goldhill (University of Cambridge)

      A study of how sex and sexuality are written about in the first centuries of this era, a central period in the history of sexuality. Simon Goldhill shows how the…

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      Preposterous Poetics: The Politics and Aesthetics of Form in Late Antiquity

      Simon Goldhill (University of Cambridge)

      Explores how literary form changes when Christianity and rabbinic Judaism take shape. By reading little-known but hugely influential texts, this book opens a new and exciting vision of how the…

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      Who Needs Greek?: Contests in the Cultural History of Hellenism

      Simon Goldhill (University of Cambridge)

      Does Greek matter? To whom and why? This lively, illustrated, interdisciplinary study focuses on moments when passionate conflicts about Greek and Greek-ness have erupted in the modern and ancient worlds…

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      Who Needs Greek?: Contests in the Cultural History of Hellenism

      Simon Goldhill (University of Cambridge)

      A study of conflicts about the meaning of Greek-ness in the modern and ancient worlds.

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      Reading Greek Tragedy

      Simon Goldhill (University of Cambridge)

      Revised edition of the pioneering Reading Greek Tragedy, which serves as an advanced, critical introduction for non-specialist readers who want to appreciate the plays in all their complexity. Includes a…

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      Reading Greek Tragedy

      Simon Goldhill (University of Cambridge)

      Revised edition of the pioneering Reading Greek Tragedy, which serves as an advanced, critical introduction for non-specialist readers who want to appreciate the plays in all their complexity. Includes a…

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      Preposterous Poetics: The Politics and Aesthetics of Form in Late Antiquity

      Simon Goldhill (University of Cambridge)

      Explores how literary form changes when Christianity and rabbinic Judaism take shape. By reading little-known but hugely influential texts, this book opens a new and exciting vision of how the…

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      The Christian Invention of Time: Temporality and the Literature of Late Antiquity

      Simon Goldhill (University of Cambridge)

      With trademark versatility and brilliance, world-renowned classicist Simon Goldhill explores how Christianity transformed humanity’s relationship with time in late antiquity. New ways of conceptualizing and experiencing time were developed, and…

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      Sophocles and the Language of Tragedy

      Simon Goldhill (Professor of Greek Literature and Culture and Fellow and Director of Studies in Classics, King's College, Cambridge University)

      Sophocles and the Language of Tragedy presents a revolutionary take on Sophocles’ tragic language and how our understanding of tragedy is shaped by our literary past.

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      Sophocles and the Language of Tragedy

      Simon Goldhill (Professor of Greek Literature and Culture and Fellow and Director of Studies in Classics, King's College, Cambridge University)

      Sophocles and the Language of Tragedy presents a revolutionary take on Sophocles’ tragic language and how our understanding of tragedy is shaped by our literary past.

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