Kategoria BISAC: Drama >> General

This edition of the orator Demosthenes' speech On the Crown includes introduction, the Greek text, commentary and useful essays on such topics as the constitution of the Amphictyonic council and the manuscript tradition.

This edition is in part a new work, and partly a revised and expanded version of the Pitt Press edition by J.M. MacGregor (Cambridge University Press, 1915). The Introduction is based on MacGregor's, revised and with an additional sections on Olynthos and the Chalcidian League, and Demosthenes' oratory. There is a also a new bibliography. The Greek text follows, along with a completely new commentary by E.I. McQueen, concentrating mainly on questions of grammar and syntax. The two Appendixes, on the Order of the Olynthiac Speeches and the Theoric Fund, have been completely rewritten to...

This collection is designed to provide a basic text for early Greek philosophy and to encourage those with an elementary knowledge of Greek to read the most important fragments of the Presocratics themselves. The book contains the Greek text of 186 fragments with brief commentary, plus the text and translation of parts of Aristotle's Metaphysics A. An introduction gives a useful overview of the Presocratics.

In all these interviews, Miss Hellman gives her own account of her eventful and exciting life, her evaluations and analyses of her plays and accounts of how and why they came to be written. Throughout, her views are expressed with the pungency, directness, honesty, and...

Euripides' Heracles is an extraordinary play, innovative in its treatment of the myth, bold in its dramatic structure, and filled with affective human pathos. The play tells a tale of horror: Heracles, the greatest hero of the Greeks, is maddened by the gods to murder his wife and children. But this suffering and divine malevolence are...

A video of performance of the play "The Terence Project, Vassar 1996" is available.