Euripides Heracles is a tragedy with a serious theme the sudden downfall of the good and the glorious. In this edition the editor has attempted to help the modern reader approach Euripides works by studying the formal elements which are prominent in his plays plus... Lees meer.

This text has been abridged in order to provide students with a more easily approachable and digestible introduction to the subject. The explanations of basic matters have been simplified and additional examples have been included to illustrate the commoner metres.... Lees meer.

The Hellenistic poets of the third century BC such as Theocritus Callimachus and Apollonius Rhodius have not received enough critical attention. This book provides an overview of their poetry and its influence on Latin literature. The work of the Hellenistic poets... Lees meer.

In this book R.W. Scribner provides the first detailed analysis of the forms of popular propaganda which were aimed at the illiterate and semi-literate during the Reformation in Germany. Hailed as a pioneering study of great importance on its original publication in 198... Lees meer.

Despite its great popularity in antiquity and its importance as a link between classical Greek tragedy and later theatrical developments this is the first English edition of Euripides play published since 1895. The text is accompanied by explanatory notes which empha... Lees meer.

A study of the history of Shakespeare criticism in the modern era. Hugh Grady charts the construction of Shakespeare as a 20th-century Modernist text by redirecting new historicist methods to an investigation of the social roots of contemporary Shakespeare criticism i... Lees meer.

In the debate about animal rights biologists may feel threatened by criticism of their use of animals. They may also feel that philosophical discussion of animals is so abstract as to be meaningless. This book brings philosophy and biology together to address these att... Lees meer.

In this book David Miller makes a comprehensive analysis of an economy in which market mechanisms retain a central role but in which capitalist patterns of ownership have been superseded. Can we conceive of a market economy that fulfils the ideals of socialism. In... Lees meer.

...a scholarly wide-ranging and illuminating book ... will be indispensable to students and teachers of Shakespeare and the English Romantic poets. British Book News. Although is is well known that the Romantics were obsessed with Shakespeare extraordinarily litt... Lees meer.

This book brings together a cross-section of the author s work in the field of medical law and ethics. Many of the articles have appeared previously in journals but all are updated. Others are published here for the first time. This book brings together a wide cross-... Lees meer.

This text concentrates on research done during the last 20 years on the philosophy of quantum mechanics. In particular the author focuses on three major issues. whether quantum mechanics is an incomplete theory whether it is non-local and whether it can be interpret... Lees meer.

Deals with two fundamental themes of late Antiquity. the barbarization of the Roman army and the interrelation of Church and secular government. It explores both Alaric s Goths in the West and the authorities in Constantinople. Barbarians and Bishops is concerned wi... Lees meer.

This study addresses major problems in interpreting Aristotle such as whether the reader should reconcile the apparent inconsistencies of the corpus by assuming an underlying unity of doctrine unitarianism or by positing a sequence of developing ideas developmentali... Lees meer.

This is a comprehensive history of Macedonia the home of Philip II and Alexander the Great. It traces the history of the Macedonian state in action from early times right down to 167 BC and analyses its institutions in Europe Asia and Egypt. In 338 BC Philip II o... Lees meer.

An account of the singular way in which the American tort system has evolved and operates today. The book deals with such topics as judicial activism the jury in civil trials the trial lawyers the contingent fee and mass litigation. all subjects of contemporary inte... Lees meer.