The Poetics of Failure in Ancient Greece 1472479114, 9781472479112

The Poetics of Eros in Ancient Greece [Core Textbook ed.] 9781400849154

The Poetics of Eros in Ancient Greece offers the first comprehensive inquiry into the deity of sexual love, a power that

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Diplomacy in Ancient Greece

Just like today, the major events of antiquity were often secretly decided behind closed doors. This indepth study of an

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Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece 9780520932173

This book presents a state-of-the-art debate about the origins of Athenian democracy by five eminent scholars. The resul

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Ancient Greece.

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The Seer in Ancient Greece 9780520934009

The seer (mantis), an expert in the art of divination, operated in ancient Greek society through a combination of charis

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Ancient Greece

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Performance Theatre and the Poetics of Failure 9780203846179, 9780415490993

What does it mean to "fail" in performance? How might staging failure reveal theatre's potential to expan

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Women of Ancient Greece 9780748679843

Pierre Brulé's brilliant evocation of how women lived in ancient Greece describes every aspect of their lives, incl

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Dionysus Writes: The Invention of Theatre in Ancient Greece 9781501744945

However, the art of drama appeared in ancient Greece not only as a beneficiary of literacy but in defiance of any tenden

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The Cult of Divine Birth in Ancient Greece 0230614779, 9780230614772

Greek religion is filled with strange sexual artifacts––stories of mortal women's couplings with gods, rituals like

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