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Author
Publisher
Greenleaf Book Group
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Standing alone in the VIP box of the Olympic Games in 2004, Gianna Angelopoulos began to dance. The world had doubted Greece's ability to successfully stage this global event. She danced to celebrate the efforts of all Greeks and her own to host a phenomenally successful games, an effort that showed the world a new Greece, a Greece worthy of its illustrious heritage.
Little did she know that a few years later her country would abandon the lessons
...Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In this second look at Greek drama, examine individual plays that epitomize the genre of tragedy, such as Aeschylus’s Oresteia and Prometheus Bound, Sophocles’s Antigone and Oedipus the King, and Euripides’s Trojan Women and Medea. Explore the nature of tragedy, its meaning for audiences and existential function in the Greek world. Then, investigate the sublime comic plays of Aristophanes.
3) Aristophanes
Author
Series
Publisher
Twayne Publishers
Pub. Date
1978.
Language
English
Description
Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of Aristophanes.
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"From the curator of The New York Times's "The Stone, " a provocative and timely exploration into tragedy--how it articulates conflicts and contradiction that we need to address in order to better understand the world we live in. We might think we are through with the past, but the past isn't through with us. Tragedy permits us to come face to face with what we do not know about ourselves but that which makes those selves who we are. Having Been Born...
Author
Series
Publisher
The Teaching Company
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The ancient Greeks, more than any other early culture, have given the template for Western civilization. The course takes viewers from the great Classical and Hellenistic eras through Greece's dramatic modern history. Discover Greek culture in examples such as Athenian democracy; Greek religious beliefs; Greek drama, epic poetry, and philosophy; and Greek sculpture, vase painting, and architecture.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Based on the publishing phenomenon, Percy Jackson and other young demigods continue to fight, but this time in the sea, to fulfill their destinies. To save their world, Percy and his friends must find the fabled and magical Golden Fleece. Embarking on a treacherous odyssey into the uncharted waters of the Sea of Monsters (known to humans as the Bermuda Triangle), they battle terrifying creatures, an army of zombies, and the ultimate Evil.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
This series takes you from the great Classical and Hellenistic eras through Greece’s dramatic modern history. You’ll discover Greek culture in examples such as: Athenian democracy; Greek religious beliefs; Greek drama, epic poetry, and philosophy; and Greek sculpture, vase painting, and architecture.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Uncover the origins of Greek drama, and how it evolved into the form of a chorus and masked actors. Learn about early theater festivals; the elements of a Greek theater; and how plays were selected, financed, and performed. Finally, study the rituals of theater going, the use of theatrical devices and stage machinery, and the story of how the Greeks’ iconic plays survived into the modern era.
Publisher
NCircle Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Join junior dinosaur expert Trek Henderson as he imagines dinosaurs into the real world! These eight great dino adventures include some of the coolest dinosaurs yet! On a trip to the swimming pool Trek teaches a baby Plesiosaur how to swim. Then to Marineland where Trek imagines up a spectacular show starring giant prehistoric marine reptiles. And it's on a fishing trip with Grandma that Trek solves the mystery of who's stealing his fish a baby Spinosaurus!...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"User's guide to opera--Matthew Aucoin, "the most promising operatic talent in a generation" (New York Times Magazine), describes the creation of his groundbreaking new work, Eurydice, and shares his reflections on the past, present, and future of opera"--
"From its beginning, opera has been an impossible art. Its first practitioners, in seventeenth-century Florence, set themselves the unreachable goal of reproducing the wonders of ancient Greek...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2010
Language
English
Description
Percy Jackson is no ordinary teenager, he's the son of Poseidon and is accused of stealing Zeus' lightning bolt, the most powerful weapon ever created! With storm clouds brewing, Percy embarks on an incredible cross-country journey to prove his innocence, recover the bolt, and prevent a war among the gods that could destroy our world!
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