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Helen of Troy

Beauty, Myth, Devastation

By: Ruby Blondell

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Helen of Troy

Beauty, Myth, Devastation

By: Ruby Blondell

Helen of Troy engages with the ancient origins of the persistent anxiety about female beauty, focusing on this key figure from ancient Greek culture in a way that both extends our understanding of that culture and provides a useful perspective for reconsidering aspects of our own.

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Oxford University Press

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0190263539

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Helping Friends and Harming Enemies

A Study in Sophocles and Greek Ethics

By: Ruby Blondell

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Helping Friends and Harming Enemies

A Study in Sophocles and Greek Ethics

By: Ruby Blondell

Sophocles is often considered the least philosophical of the three great Greek tragedians. However, Ruby Blondell offers a vital examination of the ethical content of the plays by focusing on the pervasive Greek popular moral code of 'helping friends and harming enemies'. Five of the extant plays are discussed in detail from both a dramatic and an ethical standpoint, and the author concludes that ethical themes are not only integral to each drama, but are subjected to an implicit critique through the tragic consequences to which they give rise. Greek scholars and students of Greek drama and Greek thought will welcome this book, which is presented in such a way as to be accessible to specialists and non-specialists alike. No knowledge of Greek is required. This revised edition includes a contextualising new Foreword which engages with critical and scholarly developments in Greek drama since the original publication.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009465864

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9781009465861

Helping Friends and Harming Enemies

A Study in Sophocles and Greek Ethics

By: Ruby Blondell

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A Study in Sophocles and Greek Ethics

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Helen of Troy in Hollywood

By: Ruby Blondell

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Helen of Troy in Hollywood

By: Ruby Blondell

How a legendary woman from classical antiquity has come to embody the threat of transcendent beauty in movies and TV Helen of Troy in Hollywood examines the figure of the mythic Helen in film and television, showing how storytellers from different Hollywood eras have used Helen to grapple with the problems and dynamics of gender and idealized femininity. Paying careful attention to how the image of Helen is embodied by the actors who have portrayed her, Ruby Blondell provides close readings of such works as Wolfgang Petersen’s Troy and the Star Trek episode “Elaan of Troyius,” going beyond contextualization to lead the reader through a fundamental rethinking of how we understand and interpret the classic tradition. A luminous work of scholarship by one of today’s leading classicists, Helen of Troy in Hollywood highlights the importance of ancient myths not as timeless stories frozen in the past but as lenses through which to view our own artistic, cultural, and political moment in a new light. This incisive book demonstrates how, whether as the hero of these screen adaptations or as a peripheral character in male-dominated adventures, the mythic Helen has become symbolic of the perceived dangers of superhuman beauty and transgressive erotic agency.

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Princeton University Press

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0691229643

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Helen of Troy

Beauty, Myth, Devastation

By: Ruby Blondell

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Beauty, Myth, Devastation

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Women on the Edge

Four Plays by Euripides

By: Ruby Blondell,Mary-Kay Gamel,Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz,Bella Vivante

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Women on the Edge

Four Plays by Euripides

By: Ruby Blondell,Mary-Kay Gamel,Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz,Bella Vivante

Women on the Edge, a collection of Alcestis, Medea, Helen, and Iphegenia at Aulis, provides a broad sample of Euripides' plays focusing on women, and spans the chronology of his surviving works, from the earliest, to his last, incomplete, and posthumously produced masterpiece. Each play shows women in various roles--slave, unmarried girl, devoted wife, alienated wife, mother, daughter--providing a range of evidence about the kinds of meaning and effects the category woman conveyed in ancient Athens. The female protagonists in these plays test the boundaries--literal and conceptual--of their lives. Although women are often represented in tragedy as powerful and free in their thoughts, speech and actions, real Athenian women were apparently expected to live unseen and silent, under control of fathers and husbands, with little political or economic power. Women in tragedy often disrupt "normal" life by their words and actions: they speak out boldly, tell lies, cause public unrest, violate custom, defy orders, even kill. Female characters in tragedy take actions, and raise issues central to the plays in which they appear, sometimes in strong opposition to male characters. The four plays in this collection offer examples of women who support the status quo and women who oppose and disrupt it; sometimes these are the same characters.

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516

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Routledge

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1135964610

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9781135964610

Antigone

By: Sophocles

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Antigone

By: Sophocles

This is an English translation of Sophocles’ tragedy of Antigone and her fate when she decides to bury her dead brother Polyneices. Focus Classical Library provides close translations with notes and essays to provide access to understanding Greek culture.

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Hackett Publishing

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1585106046

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9781585106042

Helen of Troy in Hollywood

By: Ruby Blondell

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By: Ruby Blondell

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The Play of Character in Plato's Dialogues

By: Ruby Blondell

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The Play of Character in Plato's Dialogues

By: Ruby Blondell

This book attempts to bridge the gulf that still exists between 'literary' and 'philosophical' interpreters of Plato by looking at his use of characterization. Characterization is intrinsic to dramatic form and a concern with human character in an ethical sense pervades the dialogues on the discursive level. Form and content are further reciprocally related through Plato's discursive preoccupation with literary characterization. Two opening chapters examine the methodological issues involved in reading Plato 'as drama' and a set of questions surrounding Greek 'character' words (especially ethos), including ancient Greek views about the influence of dramatic character on an audience. The figure of Sokrates qua Platonic 'hero' also receives preliminary discussion. The remaining chapters offer close readings of select dialogues, chosen to show the wide range of ways in which Plato uses his characters, with special emphasis on the kaleidoscopic figure of Sokrates and on Plato's own relationship to his 'dramatic' hero.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139433660

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9781139433662

Helping Friends and Harming Enemies

A Study in Sophocles and Greek Ethics

By: Mary Whitlock Blundell,Ruby Blondell

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Helping Friends and Harming Enemies

A Study in Sophocles and Greek Ethics

By: Mary Whitlock Blundell,Ruby Blondell

This book is a detailed study of five plays of Sophocles that examines a key ethical principle.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521423902

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9780521423908

Sophocles: Plays: Antigone

By: Sophocles

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Sophocles: Plays: Antigone

By: Sophocles

This is one of the seven plays of Sophocles in the full editions by R.C. Jebb, now reprinted in affordable paperback versions. In this set, each volume contains a foreword by P.E. Easterling, concerned with the editor and his contribution to Sophoclean scholarship; there follows an introduction by a noted Sophoclean scholar dealing with Jebb's treatment of the individual play and its value for - and contrast with - subsequent interpretations, for which a select bibliography is included. This is an fine example of one of R.C. Jebb's respected editions of Sophocles' plays, originally appearing in the last years of the 19th century. He gives literary and dramatic interpretations and translations that face the Greek text.

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Bristol Classical Press

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1853996475

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9781853996474

Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus

By: Sophocles,Mary Whitlock Blundell

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Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus

By: Sophocles,Mary Whitlock Blundell

English translation of an ancient Greek tragedy.

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Focus Pub R Pullins & Company

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0941051099

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9780941051095

Book's by Ruby Blondell

Helen of Troy

Helen of Troy

Helping Friends and Harming Enemies

Helping Friends and Harming Enemies

Helping Friends and Harming Enemies

Helping Friends and Harming Enemies

Helen of Troy in Hollywood

Helen of Troy in Hollywood

Helen of Troy

Helen of Troy

Women on the Edge

Women on the Edge

Antigone

Antigone

Helen of Troy in Hollywood

Helen of Troy in Hollywood

The Play of Character in Plato's Dialogues

The Play of Character in Plato's Dialogues

Helping Friends and Harming Enemies

Helping Friends and Harming Enemies

Sophocles: Plays: Antigone

Sophocles: Plays: Antigone

Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus

Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus

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