Myth and Tragedy in Ancient Greece

5 best books like Myth and Tragedy in Ancient Greece (Jean-Pierre Vernant): The Hand of Ethelberta, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides, Le Petit Nicolas, Poema Sujo, Six Tragedies

AuthorThomas Hardy
ISBN0140435026
Adventuress and opportunist, Ethelberta reinvents herself to disguise her humble origins, launching a brilliant career as a society poet in London with her family acting incognito as her servants. Turning the male-dominated literary world to her advantage, she happily exploits the attentions...
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
AuthorAeschylus
ISBN0140443339
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In the Oresteia—the only trilogy in Greek drama which survives from antiquity—Aeschylus took as his subject the bloody chain of murder and revenge within the royal family of Argos.

Moving from darkness to light, from...
Le Petit Nicolas
AuthorRené Goscinny
ISBN2070364232
La maîtresse est inquiète, le photographe s'éponge le front, le Bouillon devient tout rouge, les mamans ont mauvaise mine, les papas font les guignols, le directeur part à la retraite, quant à l'inspecteur, il est reparti aussi vite qu'il était venu. Pourtant, à l'école ou en famille, Geoffroy,...
Poema Sujo
AuthorFerreira Gullar
ISBN8503005409
Na Buenos aires de 1975, Gullar viveu meses devotado e consumido pelo desejo de registrar no papel lembranças, imagens e fragmentos de um passado, como se fizesse uma 'viagem' onírica, mas profundamente realista, marcada pela dor e prazer. Hoje, o leitor vai saciar-se novamente com os versos 'sujos',...
AuthorSeneca
ISBN0192807064
Here is a lively, readable, and accurate verse translation of the six best plays by one of the most influential of all classical Latin writers--the only tragic playwright from ancient Rome whose work survives. Tutor to the emperor Nero, Seneca lived through uncertain, oppressive, and violent times,...
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