The Leading eBooks Store Online
for Kindle Fire, Apple, Android, Nook, Kobo, PC, Mac, Sony Reader...
Most popular at the top
The Agamemnon of Aeschylus
The Floating Press 1920; US$ 3.95The Agamemnon of Aeschylus is the first play in The Trilogy of the Oresteia , which deals with the eternal problem of the evil act causing vengeance which wreaks more evil which must be avenged. Aeschylus declares that the new ruler in heaven, Zeus, heralds the end of this cycle and the beginning of hope. Zeus has suffered and sinned and grown wise,... more...
Streben und Bewegen
De Gruyter 2008; US$ 168.00How do animals make themselves move? Unlike most modern theories, Aristotle answers this question through a general theory of animal movement valid for both humans and animals. This book interprets this theory and analyses its fundamental concepts. more...
Homer's Winged Words
BRILL 2009; US$ 237.00This book is an attempt to shed new light, via the tenets of oral-formulaic theory, on the evolution and meaning of several dozen words and phrases found in early Greek epic whose etymologies have puzzled philologists for over 2500 years. more...
Electra, Phoenician Women, Bacchae, and Iphigenia at Aulis
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 2011; US$ 10.95The four late plays of Euripides collected here, in beautifully crafted translations by Cecelia Eaton Luschnig and Paul Woodruff, offer a faithful and dynamic representation of the playwrights mature vision. Cecelia Eaton Luschnig is Professor Emerita of Classics, University of Idaho, and author of An Introduction to Ancient Greek, Second Edition... more...
The Republic
The Floating Press 2009; US$ 4.95The Republic is Plato's most famous work and one of the seminal texts of Western philosophy and politics. The characters in this Socratic dialogue - including Socrates himself - discuss whether the just or unjust man is happier. They are the philosopher-kings of imagined cities and they also discuss the nature of philosophy and the soul among other... more...
Works of Sophocles
MobileReference.com 2010; US$ 3.99This collection was designed for optimal navigation on Kindle and other electronic devices. This collection offers lower price, the convenience of a one-time download, and it reduces the clutter in your digital library. All books included in this collection feature a hyperlinked table of contents and footnotes. The collection is complimented by an... more...
Selected Dialogues
OUP Oxford 2006; US$ 8.99you'll find another man to harvest, Glycerion: let this one go'The Greek satirist Lucian was a brilliantly entertaining writer who invented the comic dialogue as a vehicle for satiric comment. His influence was immense, not only in the Greek world, but on later European writers such as Rabelais and Swift. His dialogues puncture the pretensions... more...
Lysias
Philipp von Zabern Verlag 2011; US$ 8.80Hauptbeschreibung In Pantikapaion, der größten griechischen Koloniestadt, rumort es. Der junge Offizier Lysias bekommt einen wichtigen Geheimauftrag. Er soll als Spion ans Schwarzmeer reisen und eine Expedition vorbereiten, die die Tyrannen vertreiben und ein demokratisches, athenfreundliches System installieren soll. Jochen Fornasier erzählt spannend... more...
Stesichoros zwischen kultischer Praxis, mythischer Tradition und eigenem Kunstanspruch
Narr Francke Attempto 2012; US$ 63.92Hauptbeschreibung Das vorliegende Buch beschäftigt sich mit der berühmten Alternativversion zu Homers Darstellung vom Trojanischen Krieg, die der sizilische Dichter Stesichoros (ca. 630- 550 v. Chr.) gab, wonach nicht Helena selbst, sondern nur ein Phantom nach Troja gelangt sei. Zu diesem Zweck werden in dieser Studie sämtliche Erwähnungen Helenas,... more...
Classical Rhetoric and Modern Public Relations
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 125.00This book expands the theoretical foundations of modern public relations, a growing young profession that lacked even a name until the twentieth century. As the discipline seeks guiding theories and paradigms, rhetorics both ancient and modern have proven to be fruitful fields of exploration. Charles Marsh presents Isocratean rhetoric as an instructive... more...









