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A comedy about tragedy and a play about playmaking, Aristophanes' Frogs (405 BCE) is perhaps the most popular of ancient comedies. This new introduction guides students through the play, its themes and contemporary contexts, and its reception history. Frogs offers sustained engagement with the Athenian literary scene, with the politics of Athens at the end of the Peloponnesian War, and with the religious understanding of the fifth-century city...

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Using Euripides' play Helen as the main point of reference, C. W. Marshall expands our understanding of Athenian tragedy and Classical performance. The book focuses on structure to reveal how directorial decisions and the assumptions held by the ancient audience shape meaning in performance.

Now in its third edition, this textbook gives a comprehensive account of soil physics with emphasis on field applications.

A commissioned collection of papers covering widely read works, fragmentary plays and lost authors, showcasing the best of new scholarship on Old and Middle comedy.

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This book’s first edition has been widely cited by researchers in diverse fields. The following are excerpts from reviews. “Inequalities: Theory of Majorization and its Applications” merits strong praise. It is innovative, coherent, well written and, most importantly, a pleasure to read. … This work is a valuable resource!” (Mathematical Reviews). “The authors … present an extremely rich collection of inequalities in a remarkably coherent and ...

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In his detailed study of Euripides' play, Helen, C. W. Marshall expands our understanding of Athenian tragedy and Classical performance.

Athenian comedy is firmly entrenched in the classical canon, but imperial authors debated, dissected and redirected comic texts, plots and language of Aristophanes, Menander, and their rivals in ways that reflect the non-Athenocentric, pan-Mediterranean performance culture of the imperial era. Although the reception of tragedy beyond its own contemporary era has been studied, the legacy of Athenian comedy in the Roman world is less well unders...

This book’s first edition has been widely cited by researchers in diverse fields. The following are excerpts from reviews. “Inequalities: Theory of Majorization and its Applications” merits strong praise. It is innovative, coherent, well written and, most importantly, a pleasure to read. … This work is a valuable resource!” (Mathematical Reviews). “The authors … present an extremely rich collection of inequalities in a remarkably coherent and ...

Libation Bearers is the 'middle' play in the only extant tragic trilogy to survive from antiquity, Aeschylus' Oresteia, first produced in 458 BCE. This introduction to the play will be useful for anyone reading it in Greek or in translation. Drawing on his wide experience teaching about performance in the ancient world, C. W. Marshall helps readers understand how the play was experienced by its ancient audience. His discussion explores the imp...

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A comprehensive study of Roman theatrical production including all aspects of Roman performance practice.

The book's format makes it a well-paced, enjoyable and informative read. The "conversations" enable all to understand the profound stories discussed. Whether it is an appreciative analysis of the suffering endured by a woman whose medical condition was repeatedly misdiagnosed or a piercing examination of the reflection cast by the soulful innocence of a wheelchair bound boy, Body & Soul takes the reader on an unforgettable journey. Each chapte...

The book's format makes it a well-paced, enjoyable and informative read. The "conversations" enable all to understand the profound stories discussed. Whether it is an appreciative analysis of the suffering endured by a woman whose medical condition was repeatedly misdiagnosed or a piercing examination of the reflection cast by the soulful innocence of a wheelchair bound boy, Body & Soul takes the reader on an unforgettable journey. Each chapte...