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Literary Criticism

Ancient World

Objects as Actors Props and the Poetics of Performance in Greek Tragedy

Mueller Melissa

ISBN: HB: 9780226312958, University of Chicago Press, December 2015
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones

"Objects as Actors" charts a new approach to Greek tragedy based on an obvious, yet often overlooked, fact: Greek tragedy was meant to be performed. As plays, the works were incomplete without physical items in the form of theatrical props. In this b...

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Democracy's Beginning The Athenian Story

Mitchell Thomas N.

ISBN: HB: 9780300215038, Yale University Press, October 2015
368 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 12 black&white illus., 5 maps

The first democracy, established in ancient Greece more than 2,500 years ago, has served as the foundation for every democratic system of government instituted down the centuries. In this lively history, author Thomas N. Mitchell tells the full and r...

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Ancient World

Ancient Egypt Transformed The Middle Kingdom

Oppenheim Adela, Arnold Dorothea, Arnold Dieter, Yamamoto Kei

ISBN: HB: 9781588395641, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 2015
400 pp., 31.1x24.9 cm, 365 colour illus., 42 black&white illus., 6 maps

The Middle Kingdom (ca. 2030-1700 B.C.), the second great era of ancient Egyptian culture, was a transformational period during which the artistic conventions, cultural principles, religious beliefs, and political systems formed during earlier dynast...

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History of Art

Ancient World

Ennion Master of Roman Glass

Lightfoot Christopher, Wight Karol B., Pilosi Lisa, Wypyski Mark T.

ISBN: PB: 9780300208771, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, March 2015
160 pp., 26.7x23.5 cm, 100 colour illus.

Among glass craftsmen active in the first century A.D., the most famous and gifted was Ennion, who came from the coastal city of Sidon in modern Lebanon. Ennion's glass stood out for its quality and popularity, and his products are distinguished by t...

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Persius A Study in Food, Philosophy, and the Figural

Bartsch Shadi

ISBN: HB: 9780226241845, University of Chicago Press, March 2015
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The Roman poet and satirist Persius (34-62 CE) was unique among his peers for lampooning literary and social conventions from a distinctly Stoic point of view. A curious amalgam of mocking wit and philosophy, his Satires are rife with violent metapho...

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Literary Criticism

Ancient World

Medea

Euripides

ISBN: PB: 9780226203454, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
72 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

In the centuries since it was first performed, Euripides's "Medea" has established itself as one of the most influential of the Greek tragedies. The story of the wronged wife who seeks revenge against her unfaithful husband by murdering their childre...

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