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Die Mitleidsindustrie
Campus Verlag 2010; US$ 18.33Hauptbeschreibung Aktueller könnte das Thema kaum sein. Wenn Hilfsorganisationen zum Spenden auffordern, folgen wir ihrem Ruf nur allzu bereitwillig. Rund 2 Millionen Euro spenden allein die Deutschen jedes Jahr. Doch wissen wir immer, was mit diesem Geld geschieht? Bewirkt es wirklich, was wir damit bezwecken? Wie entscheiden humanitäre Helfer,... more...
The Complete Euripides, Volume V
Oxford University Press, USA 2010; US$ 11.99Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in order to evoke the poetry of the originals. This volume... more...
Defence Speeches
Oxford University Press, UK 2001; US$ 8.99This volume presents five of Cicero's most famous defence speeches: of Roscius, accused of murder; of Murena, accused of bribery; of Archias, on a citizenship charge; of Caelius, accused of violence; and of Milo, accused of murdering Cicero's hated enemy Clodius. These new translations achieve new standards of accuracy and introductions and... more...
Divine Talk
OUP Oxford 2009; US$ 134.99Gunther Martin examines the references to religion in the speeches of Demosthenes and other Athenian orators in the 4th century BC. In Part I he demonstrates the role religion plays in the rhetorical strategy of speeches in political trials: his main argument is that speakers had to be consistent in their approach to religion throughout their career.... more...
Von Kriegsverächtern und Kriegsverfechtern
Springer Fachmedien 2008; US$ 54.99The Odyssey
Oxford University Press, UK 1980; US$ 8.99The first English prose translation of Homer's The Odyssey to appear in over thirty years, Shewring's translation comes as close to the spirit of the original Greek as our language will allow. more...
The Oresteian Trilogy
Penguin Books Ltd 1973; Not AvailableAeschylus (525-c.456 bc) set his great trilogy in the immediate aftermath of the Fall of Troy, when King Agamemnon returns to Argos, a victor in war. Agamemnon depicts the hero?s discovery that his family has been destroyed by his wife?s infidelity and ends with his death at her callous hand. Clytemnestra?s crime is repaid in The Choephori when her... more...
Three Plays
Penguin Books Ltd 2005; Not AvailableOne of the greatest playwrights of Ancient Greece, the works of Euripides (484-406 BC) were revolutionary in their depiction of tragic events caused by flawed humanity, and in their use of the gods as symbols of human nature. The three plays in this collection show his abilities as the sceptical questioner of his age. Alcestis, an early drama, tells... more...
Antigone
Ivan R. Dee 1998; US$ 8.99One of the greatest, most moving of all tragedies, Antigone continues to have meaning for us because of its depiction of the struggle between individual conscience and state policy, and its delicate probing of the nature of human suffering. Plays for Performance Series. more...









