Results for: books tagged ‘Ancient Greece’
Seize the Fire: Tom Paulin
After the success of The Riot Act, his version of Sophocles's Antigone, Tom Paulin turned his formidable powers of transformation on Aeschylus's Prometheus Bound. Commissioned by the Open University, Paulin ... More
Euripides' Alcestis: Ted Hughes
Alcestis is the story of a king, Admetus, who is able to escape death because his wife, Alcestis, has volunteered to die in his place. Ted Hughes's version goes beyond ... More
The Faber Book of Greek Legends: Kathleen Lines
What was the Golden Fleece? What was the Apple of Discord? Who were the Pleiades?This acclaimed anthology of Greek legends contains twenty-five stories told by eleven different authors including Charles ... More
Seeing Things: Seamus Heaney
Songs on Bronze: Nigel Spivey
Most of us would like to know the Greek myths better than we do, and in this book Cambridge academic and BBC presenter Nigel Spivey re-tells the Greek myths as ... More
Orpheus: Don Paterson
Published in 1923, near the end of his life, the fifty-five Sonnets to Orpheus were completed in less than a month and famously described by Rilke as ‘perhaps the most ... More
The Penelopiad: Margaret Atwood
As portrayed in Homer's Odyssey, Penelope - wife of Odysseus and cousin of the beautiful Helen of Troy - has become a symbol of wifely duty and devotion, enduring twenty ... More
Xenophon's Retreat: Robin Waterfield
It is 401 BC. In battle at Cunaxa on the River Euphrates, the Persian king Artaxerxes II defeats a challenge to his throne by his brother Cyrus the Younger. Among ... More
The Agamemnon of Aeschylus: Louis MacNeice
Louis MacNeice read classics at Oxford, and his professional life began as a lecturer in classics, before his career developed as a poet and broadcaster. Published in 1936 and intended ... More
Euripides' Hippolytus: Timberlake Wertenbaker
Furious that Prince Hippolytus will not worship her, Aphrodite, goddess of love, seeks revenge. Infecting Hippolytus’ stepmother, Phaedra, with an overpowering desire for him, Aphrodite’s retribution will sweep both prince ... More
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