Overview :Jerusalem is the site of some of the most famous religious monuments in the world, from the Dome of the Rock to the Church of the Holy Sepul... Read More
Overview :Written by one of the best-known interpreters of classical literature today, Sophocles and the Language of Tragedy presents a revolutionary ... Read More
Overview :It was destroyed nearly 2,000 years ago, and yet the Temple of Jerusalem--cultural memory, symbol, and site--remains one of the most powerfu... Read More
Overview :These new and especially commissioned essays discuss the ways in which performance is central to the practice and ideology of democracy in c... Read More
Overview :This book is an advanced critical introduction to Greek tragedy. It is written specifically for the reader who does not know Greek and who m... Read More
Overview :The Victorian era was the high point of literary tourism. Writers such as Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Sir Walter Scott became celebri... Read More
Overview :From the stages of Broadway and London to university campuses, Paris, and the bourgeoning theaters of Africa, Greek tragedy remains constant... Read More
Overview :Lucian is one of the most prolific and wide-ranging writers from antiquity and one of the most influential and controversial. His work is de... Read More
Overview :Who Needs Greek? is an interdisciplinary study of arguments on what ancient Greece has meant to western culture from the ancient world to to... Read More
Overview :This is a study of how sex and sexuality were written about in the first centuries of this era, a central period in the history of sexuality... Read More
Overview :How did the Victorians engage with the ancient world? Victorian Culture and Classical Antiquity is a brilliant exploration of how the ancien... Read More
Overview :In Love, Sex & Tragedy Simon Goldhill lifts the veil on our inheritance of classical traditions and offers a witty, engrossing survey of the... Read More
Overview :These especially commissioned essays open up a fascinating and novel perspective on a crucial era of Western culture. In the second century ... Read More
Overview :Time is integral to human culture. Over the last two centuries people's relationship with time has been transformed through industrialisatio... Read More
Overview :"We can begin with a kiss, though this will not turn out to be a love story, at least not a love story of anything like the usual kind." So ... Read More
Overview :From the time of the Roman Empire onwards, fifth- and fourth-century Greece have been held to be the period and place in which civilization ... Read More