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Meineck and Woodruff's new annotated translations of Sophocles'
Ajax , Women of Trachis , Electra , and Philoctetes combine the
same standards of accuracy, concision, clarity, and powerful speech
that have so often made their Theban Plays a source of epiphany in
the classroom and of understanding in the theatre. Woodruff's
Introduction offers a brisk and stimulating discussion of central
themes in Sophoclean drama, the life of the playwright, staging
issues, and each of the four featured plays.
Designed for students with little or no background in ancient Greek
language and culture, this collection of extracts from The History
of the Peloponnesian War includes those passages that shed most
light on Thucydides' political theory--famous as well as important
but lesser-known pieces frequently overlooked by nonspecialists.
Newly translated into spare, vigorous English, and situated within
a connective narrative framework, Woodruff's selections will be of
special interest to instructors in political theory and Greek
civilization. Includes maps, notes, glossary.
The four late plays of Euripides collected here, in beautifully
crafted translations by Cecelia Eaton Luschnig and Paul Woodruff,
offer a faithful and dynamic representation of the playwright's
mature vision.
[Woodruff's translation] is clear, fluent, and vigorous, well
thought out, readable and forceful. The rhythms are right,
ever-present but not too insistent or obvious. It can be spoken
instead of read and so is viable as an acting version; and it keeps
the lines of the plot well focused. The Introduction offers a good
survey of critical approaches. The notes at the foot of the page
are suitably brief and nonintrusive and give basic information for
the non-specialist. --Charles Segal, Harvard University
Peter Meineck and Paul Woodruff's collaboration on this new
translation combines the strengths that have recently distinguished
both as translators of Greek tragedy: expert knowledge of the Greek
and of the needs of the teaching classicist, intimate knowledge of
theatre, and an excellent ear for the spoken word. Their Oedipus
Tyrannus features foot-of-the-page notes, an Introduction, stage
directions and a translation characterized by its clarity,
accuracy, and power.
This volume offers the fruits of Peter Meineck and Paul Woodruff's
dynamic collaboration on the plays of Sophocles' Theban cycle,
presenting the translators' Oedipus Tyrannus (2000) along with
Woodruff's Antigone (2001) and a muscular new Oedipus at Colonus by
Meineck. Grippingly readable, all three translations combine
fidelity to the Greek with concision, clarity, and powerful,
hard-edged speech. Each play features foot-of-the-page notes, stage
directions, and line numbers to the Greek. Woodruff's Introduction
discusses the playwright, Athenian theatre and performance, the
composition of the plays, and the plots and characters of each; it
also offers thoughtful reflections on major critical
interpretations of these plays.
Few topics are more ubiquitous in everyday life and, at the same
time, more controversial in practice, than that of one's moral
obligation to loyalty. Featuring essays by scholars working in a
variety of subjects from law to psychology, Loyalty presents
diverse perspectives on dilemmas posed by potential conflicts
between loyalties to specific institutions or professional roles
and more universalistic conceptions of moral duty. The volume
begins with a philosophical exploration of theories of loyalty,
both Eastern and Western, then moves to examine several problematic
situations in which loyalty is often a factor: partisan politics,
the armed forces, and lawyer-client relationships. A fair and
balanced analysis from a wide range of disciplinary and normative
viewpoints, Loyalty infuses new life into an oft-tread avenue of
scholarly inquiry. Contributors: Ryan K. Balot, Paul O. Carrese,
Yasmin Dawood, Bernard Gert, Kathleen M. Higgins, Sanford Levinson,
Daniel Markovits, Lynn Mather, Russell Muirhead, Nancy Sherman,
Paul Woodruff
Aeschylus: The Libation Bearers ; Euripides: Electra ; Sophocles:
Electra
Thucydides was the first ancient Greek historian to double as a
social scientist. He set out to understand human events entirely in
human terms, without recourse to myth. He sought to know why people
go to war and how they are affected by its violence. He studied the
civil war in Corcyra, which began when radicals burst into the
council house and killed leaders who favored democracy. The
strengths and weaknesses of democracy are a major theme of his
History . Its larger story shows how the Athenians tried to expand
their empire too far and came to a crushing defeat. Here are vivid
stories of land and sea battles, interspersed with fascinating and
disturbing debates about war and policy. All of Thucydides's
History is here, either in summary or translation, in a volume
short enough for a wide readership. This Second Edition is expanded
to include all the important debates and battle scenes, and the
entire translation has been revised in accord with the latest
scholarship. The Essential Thucydides (Hackett, fall 2021) is the
second edition of Paul Woodruff's On Justice, Power, and Human
Nature: Selections from The History of the Peloponnesian War (first
published by Hackett Publishing Company in 1993, paperback ISBN
978-0-87220-168-2, cloth ISBN 978-0-87220-169-9).
Socrates urged his followers to commit to a lifelong activity of
nurturing the moral health of the soul through self-examination. By
contrast, modern philosophers who follow Aristotle in ethics have
mostly taught that living well depends on having virtues or traits
that are robust traits of character. But traits are not reliable in
all situations, and they do not help us make hard decisions. Having
a trait is no substitute for the Socratic activity we need to
practice in order to live toward virtue. In Living Toward Virtue,
Paul Woodruff shows how we can set about living ethically, drawing
on what Socrates called Human Wisdom - a philosophy centered on the
recognition of the limits of our moral knowledge. Woodruff uses
this ancient set of ideas to develop a practical approach to ethics
that goes beyond what Plato tells us of Socrates, in order to show
how we can nurture our souls, enjoy a virtuous happiness, and avoid
moral injury. Paul Woodruff's Living Toward Virtue shows how richly
a Socratic approach to the moral challenges of life can reward us.
The four late plays of Euripides collected here, in beautifully
crafted translations by Cecelia Eaton Luschnig and Paul Woodruff,
offer a faithful and dynamic representation of the playwright's
mature vision.
Peter Meineck and Paul Woodruff's collaboration on this new
translation combines the strengths that have recently distinguished
both as translators of Greek tragedy: expert knowledge of the Greek
and of the needs of the teaching classicist, intimate knowledge of
theatre, and an excellent ear for the spoken word. Their Oedipus
Tyrannus features foot-of-the-page notes, an Introduction, stage
directions and a translation characterized by its clarity,
accuracy, and power.
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Phaedrus (Paperback)
Plato; Translated by Steven Scully, Paul Woodruff
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R346
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"A superb translation that captures the rhetorical brilliance of
the Greek. . . . The translation is faithful in the very best
sense: it reflects both the meaning and the beauty of the Greek
text. . . . The footnotes are always helpful, never obtrusive. A
one-page outline is useful since there are no editorial additions
to mark major divisions in the dialogue. An appendix containing
fragments of early Greek love poetry helps the reader appreciate
the rich, and perhaps elusive, meaning of eros. . . . The entire
Introduction is crisply written, and the authors' erudition shines
throughout, without a trace of pedantry. . . . this is an excellent
book that deservedly should find wide circulation for many years to
come". --Tim Mahoney, University of Texas at Arlington
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Philoctetes (Paperback)
Sophocles; Translated by Peter Meineck, Paul Woodruff
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R297
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First published in Peter Meineck and Paul Woodruff's Sophocles:
Four Tragedies , this riveting translation by Peter Meineck of
Sophocles' Philoctetes features a new Introduction by Paul
Woodruff. "Peter Meineck has given us a superbly vivid rendering of
the play, informed throughout by his practical experience in the
theater. His is a Philoctetes that is supremely alive, from start
to finish. . . . [I]deal for classroom use . . . accompanied by a
new and thoughtful introduction from philosopher and classicist
Paul Woodruff. Woodruff anchors the play in the complex web of
fears and anxieties of 409 BCE, as both Sophocles' life and Athens'
imperial heyday drew to a close. . . . [A]n exceptionally fine work
of translation and scholarship that will go far toward demolishing
dismissals of the play as inaccessible or unengaging for the modern
reader. Sophocles, Meineck and Woodruff eloquently remind us,
speaks to every age, not least our own." -Thomas R. Keith, Loyola
University Chicago in CJ-Online
Meineck and Woodruff's new annotated translations of Sophocles'
Ajax , Women of Trachis , Electra , and Philoctetes combine the
same standards of accuracy, concision, clarity, and powerful speech
that have so often made their Theban Plays a source of epiphany in
the classroom and of understanding in the theatre. Woodruff's
Introduction offers a brisk and stimulating discussion of central
themes in Sophoclean drama, the life of the playwright, staging
issues, and each of the four featured plays.
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Bacchae (Paperback)
Euripides, Paul Woodruff
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R356
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English translation of Euripides' tragedy based on the mythological
story of King Pentheus of Thebes. Focus Classical Library provides
close translations with notes and essays to provide access to
understanding Greek culture.
Together these two dialogues contain Plato's most important work on
poetry and beauty.
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Philoctetes (Hardcover)
Sophocles; Translated by Peter Meineck, Paul Woodruff
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R873
R811
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First published in Peter Meineck and Paul Woodruff's Sophocles:
Four Tragedies , this riveting translation by Peter Meineck of
Sophocles' Philoctetes features a new Introduction by Paul
Woodruff. "Peter Meineck has given us a superbly vivid rendering of
the play, informed throughout by his practical experience in the
theater. His is a Philoctetes that is supremely alive, from start
to finish. . . . [I]deal for classroom use . . . accompanied by a
new and thoughtful introduction from philosopher and classicist
Paul Woodruff. Woodruff anchors the play in the complex web of
fears and anxieties of 409 BCE, as both Sophocles' life and Athens'
imperial heyday drew to a close. . . . [A]n exceptionally fine work
of translation and scholarship that will go far toward demolishing
dismissals of the play as inaccessible or unengaging for the modern
reader. Sophocles, Meineck and Woodruff eloquently remind us,
speaks to every age, not least our own." -Thomas R. Keith, Loyola
University Chicago in CJ-Online
What is unique and essential about theater? What separates it from
other arts? Do we need "theater" in some fundamental way? The art
of theater, as Paul Woodruff says in this elegant and unique book,
is as necessary--and as powerful--as language itself. Defining
theater broadly, including sporting events and social rituals, he
treats traditional theater as only one possibility in an art
that--at its most powerful--can change lives and (as some peoples
believe) bring a divine presence to earth.
The Necessity of Theater analyzes the unique power of theater by
separating it into the twin arts of watching and being watched,
practiced together in harmony by watchers and the watched. Whereas
performers practice the art of being watched--making their actions
worth watching, and paying attention to action, choice, plot,
character, mimesis, and the sacredness of performance
space--audiences practice the art of watching: paying close
attention. A good audience is emotionally engaged as spectators;
their engagement takes a form of empathy that can lead to a special
kind of human wisdom. As Plato implied, theater cannot teach us
transcendent truths, but it can teach us about ourselves.
Characteristically thoughtful, probing, and original, Paul
Woodruff makes the case for theater as a unique form of expression
connected to our most human instincts. The Necessity of Theater
should appeal to anyone seriously interested or involved in theater
or performance more broadly.
This edition of early Greek writings on social and political issues includes works by more than thirty authors, including the sophists, poets, tragedians, historians, medical writers and presocratic philosophers. Besides political theory, ancient political thought includes early sociology, anthropology, ethics and rhetoric, and the wide range of issues discussed includes the origin of human society, the origin of law, the nature of justice, the forms of good government, and the distribution of power among genders and social classes.
Together these two dialogues contain Plato's most important work on
poetry and beauty.
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The Electra Plays (Hardcover)
Peter Meineck, Cecelia Eaton Luschnig, Paul Woodruff
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R1,058
R961
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Aeschylus: The Libation Bearers ; Euripides: Electra ; Sophocles:
Electra
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Theban Plays (Hardcover, New Ed)
Sophocles; Translated by Paul Woodruff, Peter Meineck
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R1,033
R942
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This volume offers the fruits of Peter Meineck and Paul Woodruff's
dynamic collaboration on the plays of Sophocles' Theban cycle,
presenting the translators' Oedipus Tyrannus (2000) along with
Woodruff's Antigone (2001) and a muscular new Oedipus at Colonus by
Meineck. Grippingly readable, all three translations combine
fidelity to the Greek with concision, clarity, and powerful,
hard-edged speech. Each play features foot-of-the-page notes, stage
directions, and line numbers to the Greek. Woodruff's Introduction
discusses the playwright, Athenian theatre and performance, the
composition of the plays, and the plots and characters of each; it
also offers thoughtful reflections on major critical
interpretations of these plays.
What is unique and essential about theater? What separates it from
other arts? Do we need "theater" in some fundamental way? The art
of theater, as Paul Woodruff says in this elegant and unique book,
is as necessary - and as powerful - as language itself. Defining
theater broadly, including sporting events and social rituals, he
treats traditional theater as only one possibility in an art that -
at its most powerful - can change lives and (as some peoples
believe) bring a divine presence to earth.
The Necessity of Theater analyzes the unique power of theater by
separating it into the twin arts of watching and being watched,
practiced together in harmony by watchers and the watched. Whereas
performers practice the art of being watched - making their actions
worth watching, and paying attention to action, choice, plot,
character, mimesis, and the sacredness of performance space -
audiences practice the art of watching: paying close attention. A
good audience is emotionally engaged as spectators; their
engagement takes a form of empathy that can lead to a special kind
of human wisdom. As Plato implied, theater cannot teach us
transcendent truths, but it can teach us about ourselves.
Characteristically thoughtful, probing, and original, Paul Woodruff
makes the case for theater as a unique form of expression connected
to our most human instincts. The Necessity of Theater should appeal
to anyone seriously interested or involved in theater or
performance more broadly.
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