18 books like Greek Studies A Series Of Essays
The Queen of Air
This book covers the lectures on greek myths of storm. A myth, in its simplest definition, is a story with a meaning attached to it other than it seems to have at first; and the fact that it has such a meaning is generally marked by some of its circumstances being extraordinary, or, in the common use of the word, unnatural.
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L'Odyssée
The Odyssey (French title: LOdyssée) is a 2016 French-Belgian biographical adventure film directed by Jérôme Salle and written by Salle and Laurent Turner, based on the non-fiction book Capitaine de La Calypso by Albert Falco and Yves Paccalet. The film stars Lambert Wilson, Pierre Niney, and Audrey Tautou.
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Plays
"Four Plays" by Aeschylus is a collection that typically includes some of the most significant works by this ancient Greek playwright, who is often referred to as the father of tragedy. Aeschylus' plays are known for their profound exploration of justice, power, and the divine. While different collections might include various selections, four of his most famous plays are:
"Agamemnon": The first…
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Interpretations of Greek Mythology (Routledge Revivals)
Interpretations of Greek Mythology, first published in1987, builds on the innovative work of Walter Burkert and the ‘Paris school’ of Jean-Pierre Vernant, and represents a renewal of interpretation of Greek mythology. The contributors to this volume present a variety of approaches to the Greek myths, all of which eschew a monolithic or exclusively structuralist hermeneutic method. Specifically,…
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Old Greek Folk Stories Told Anew
"Old Greek Folk Stories Told Anew" from Josephine Preston Peabody. American poet and dramatist (1874-1922).
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The Homeric gods
In many respects, this book is considered to be the best guide ever written on Homeric religion. The analysis by W. F. Otto, while being very careful in terms of interpretation, denotes an open consonance of the author with the spirit - sometimes brutal and, for our mentality, immoral - of Greek polytheism. A thrilling and amazing journey to Olympus. This is a new edition of the Pantheon Books…
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Aeschyli Tragoediae
Introduction in English
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Ten plays
The first playwright of democracy, Euripides wrote with enduring insight and biting satire about social and political problems of Athenian life.  In contrast to his contemporaries, he brought an exciting--and, to the Greeks, a stunning--realism to the "pure and noble form" of tragedy.  For the first time in history, heroes and heroines on the stage were not…
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Euripides
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Euripides’ theater of ideas / William arrowsmith -- Euripides and the gods / G. M. A. Grube -- The virtues of Admetus / Anne Pippin Burnett -- On Euripides’ Medea / Eilhard Schlesinger -- The Hippolytus of Euripides / Bernard M. W. Knox -- Watching the Trojan women / Eric A. Havelock -- Why the Trojan women? / Jean-Paul Sartre -- Orestes / Christian Wolff -- Tragedy and…
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The library
Attributed to Apollodorus of Athens (born c. 180 BCE), but probably composed in the first or second century BCE, the Library provides a grand summary of Greek myths and heroic legends about the origin and early history of the world and of the Hellenic people.
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Euripide
Ten tragedies by one of the three great tragedians of classical Athens, namely Hecuba, Orestes, The Phœnician Virgins, Medea, Hippolytus, Alcestis, The Bacchæ, The Heraclidæ, Iphigenia in Aulis, and Iphigenia in Tauris.
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The complete plays of Sophocles
Oedipus the King - Antigone - Electra - AjaxTrachinian Women - Philoctetes - Oedipus at ColonusThe greatest of the Greek tragedians, Sophocles wrote over 120 plays, surpassing his older contemporary Aeschylus and the younger Euripides in literary output as well as in the number of prizes awarded his works. Only the seven plays in this volume have survived intact. From…
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The tragedies of Sophocles
Preface signed: Theodore Alois Buckley.
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Tragoediae
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Fairy Tale in the Ancient World
In this, the first modern study of the ancient fairytale, Graham Anderson asks whether the familiar children's fairytale of today existed in the ancient world. He examines texts from the classical period and finds many stories which resemble those we know today, including:
a Jewish Egyptian Cinderella
a Snow White whose enemy is the goddess Artemis
a Pied Piper at Troy.
He puts forward many…
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Python
If you are an engineer, a researcher, or a hobbyist, and you are interested in robotics and want to build your own robot, this book is for you. Readers are assumed to be new to robotics but should have experience with Python.
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Description of Greece
Pausanias (110 – 180 A.D.), was a Greek geographer, known for his work Description of Greece.  The ten volumes (which are all included), cover Attica, Corinth, Laconia, and more.  This edition is translated by W.H.S. Jones and H.A. Ormerod.
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The plays of Euripides
Euripides’ classic play, based on the myth of Jason and Medea, about a barbarian woman who retaliates against the husband who leaves her—here in the 1912 translation by Gilbert Murray into English rhyming verse. With explanatory notes.
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