"The Trojan Women and Other Plays" von Edith Hall ist eine Sammlung klassischer griechischer Tragödien, die sich mit den Themen Krieg, Leid und menschlicher Natur auseinandersetzen. Die zentrale Tragödie, "Die Troerinnen" von Euripides,...

Edith Hall lässt uns die Kraft und Faszination der griechischen Antike neu entdecken Sie waren die Erfinder der Demokratie, Begründer der Philosophie, Schöpfer unsterblicher Mythen und Dramen - die alten Griechen haben das Fundament...

Edith Hall first encountered Aristotle when she was twenty, and he changed her life forever. Now one of Britain's foremost classicists, and a Professor at King's College London, she is the first woman to have won the Erasmus Medal of the...

Unpacks the mysterious and successful ancient Greek people through 10 personality traits. Their civilization lasted more than 20 centuries, and these 10 chapters look at the traits and pairs them with a different Greek community. Now in...

The ancient Greeks invented democracy, theater, rational science, and philosophy. They built the Parthenon and the Library of Alexandria. They wrote down the timeless myths of Odysseus and Oedipus, and the histories of Leonidas's three...

The 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...