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An award-winning classicist turns to Greek tragedies for the wisdom to understand the damage caused by suicide and help those who are contemplating suicide themselvesIn Sophocles’ tragedy Oedipus the Tyrant, a messenger arrives to report that Jocasta, queen of Thebes, has killed herself. To prepare listeners for this terrible news, he announces, “The tragedies that hurt the most are those that sufferers have chosen for themselves.” Edith Hall, whose own li...

An award-winning classicist turns to Greek tragedies for the wisdom to understand the damage caused by suicide and help those who are contemplating suicide themselvesIn Sophocles’ tragedy Oedipus the Tyrant, a messenger arrives to report that Jocasta, queen of Thebes, has killed herself. To prepare listeners for this terrible news, he announces, “The tragedies that hurt the most are those that sufferers have chosen for themselves.” Edith Hall, whose own li...

‘Wonderful and timely … Hugely recommended’ STEPHEN FRYWhat do you and an ancient philosopher have in common? It turns out much more than you might think…Aristotle was an extraordinary thinker yet he was preoccupied by an ordinary question: how to be happy. In this handbook to his timeless teachings, Professor Edith Hall shows how ancient thinking is precisely what we need today, even if you don’t know your Odyssey from your Il...

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring This Very Short Introduction introduces the life, work, and influence of one of the greatest dramatists of all time, Sophocles the Athenian. Placing his plays within their historical context, and explaining the conventions of ancient Greek tragic theatre, Edith Hall spotlights their distinctive features-tight plots, titanic personalities, lucid style, sympathetic women, exquisite poetry, and stagecraft. This analysis i...

Chi erano davvero gli antichi Greci? Ci hanno dato la democrazia, la filosofia razionale, la poesia, la scienza, il piacere di un umorismo pungente. E cosa ha permesso loro di raggiungere tali vette di conoscenza e identità?Gli antichi Greci occuparono un vasto spazio geografico, la loro civiltà durò piú di venti secoli e con essa non abbiamo mai smesso di dialogare. Edith Hall ci fa scoprire questa civiltà in modo inconsueto e rivelatore: individuando dieci brillanti caratteristic...

"Wonderful…a thoughtful discussion of what made [the Greeks] so important, in their own time and in ours." —Natalie Haynes, IndependentThe ancient Greeks invented democracy, theater, rational science, and philosophy. They built the Parthenon and the Library of Alexandria. Yet this accomplished people never formed a single unified social or political identity. In Introducing the Ancient Greeks, acclaimed classics scholar Edith Hall offers a bold sy...

An urgent study of Homer’s Iliad, exposing the beginnings of the ecological disaster we now face and facilitating our understanding of its historyThe roots of today’s environmental catastrophe run deep into humanity’s past. Through this unprecedented reading of Homer’s Iliad, the award-winning classicist Edith Hall examines how this foundational text both documents the environmental practices of the ancient Greeks and betrays an awareness of the d...

They gave us democracy, philosophy, poetry, rational science, the joke. They built the Parthenon and the Library of Alexandria. They wrote the timeless myths of Odysseus and Oedipus, and the histories of Leonidas’s three hundred Spartans and Alexander the Great.But who were the ancient Greeks? And what was it that enabled them to achieve so much?Here, Edith Hall gives us a revelatory way of viewing this geographically scattered people, visiting different communitie...

Los griegos antiguos: un riguroso, a la vez que ameno, estudio sobre las características que definieron a los pueblos de la Grecia antigua y su influencia en la formación de la sociedad occidental moderna.Los griegos antiguos, con el estudio de las diez características de este grupo de pueblos que tanto contribuyeron a modelar el mundo moderno, es una detallada y ví-vida exploración de los dos milenios de historia que van desde el surgimiento de la civilización mic...

They gave us democracy, philosophy, poetry, rational science, the joke. They built the Parthenon and the Library of Alexandria. They wrote the timeless myths of Odysseus and Oedipus, and the histories of Leonidas’s three hundred Spartans and Alexander the Great.But who were the ancient Greeks? And what was it that enabled them to achieve so much?Here, Edith Hall gives us a revelatory way of viewing this geographically scattered people, visiting different communitie...

Von der Kraft und Faszination der griechischen AntikeSie waren die Erfinder der Demokratie, Begründer der Philosophie, Schöpfer unsterblicher Mythen – doch was genau war das Erfolgsgeheimnis der antiken Griechen und was verbindet uns mit ihnen? Edith Hall, Professorin am Londoner King’s College und eine der weltweit profiliertesten Altertumsforscherinnen, untersucht zehn Charaktereigenschaften, die allen griechischen Völkern gemeinsam waren. Über die Jahrtausende h...