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Originally adapted for the stage, Peter Meineck's revised
translations achieve a level of fidelity appropriate for classroom
use while managing to preserve the wit and energy that led The New
Yorker to judge his Clouds The best Greek drama we've ever seen
anywhere," and The Times Literary Supplement to describe his Wasps
as "Hugely enjoyable and very, very funny. A general Introduction,
introductions to the plays, and detailed notes on staging, history,
religious practice and myth combine to make this a remarkably
useful teaching text.
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.
The Routledge Handbook of Classics and Cognitive Theory is an
interdisciplinary volume that examines the application of cognitive
theory to the study of the classical world, across several
interrelated areas including linguistics, literary theory, social
practices, performance, artificial intelligence and archaeology.
With contributions from a diverse group of international scholars
working in this exciting new area, the volume explores the
processes of the mind drawing from research in psychology,
philosophy, neuroscience, and anthropology, and interrogates the
implications of these new approaches for the study of the ancient
world. Topics covered in this wide-ranging collection include:
cognitive linguistics applied to Homeric and early Greek texts,
Roman cultural semantics, linguistic embodiment in Latin
literature, group identities in Greek lyric, cognitive dissonance
in historiography, kinesthetic empathy in Sappho, artificial
intelligence in Hesiod and Greek drama, the enactivism of Roman
statues and memory and art in the Roman Empire. This
ground-breaking work is the first to organize the field, allowing
both scholars and students access to the methodologies,
bibliographies and techniques of the cognitive sciences and how
they have been applied to classics.
Theatrocracy is a book about the power of the theatre, how it can
affect the people who experience it, and the societies within which
it is embedded. It takes as its model the earliest theatrical form
we possess complete plays from, the classical Greek theatre of the
fifth century BCE, and offers a new approach to understanding how
ancient drama operated in performance and became such an
influential social, cultural, and political force, inspiring and
being influenced by revolutionary developments in political
engagement and citizen discourse. Key performative elements of
Greek theatre are analyzed from the perspective of the cognitive
sciences as embodied, live, enacted events, with new approaches to
narrative, space, masks, movement, music, words, emotions, and
empathy. This groundbreaking study combines research from the
fields of the affective sciences - the study of human emotions -
including cognitive theory, neuroscience, psychology, artificial
intelligence, psychiatry, and cognitive archaeology, with
classical, theatre, and performance studies. This book revisits
what Plato found so unsettling about drama - its ability to produce
a theatrocracy, a "government" of spectators - and argues that this
was not a negative but an essential element of Athenian theatre. It
shows that Athenian drama provided a place of alterity where
audiences were exposed to different viewpoints and radical
perspectives. This perspective was, and is, vital in a freethinking
democratic society where people are expected to vote on matters of
state. In order to achieve this goal, the theatre offered a
dissociative and absorbing experience that enhanced emotionality,
deepened understanding, and promoted empathy. There was, and still
is, an urgent imperative for theatre.
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.
Aristophanes's classic send-up of rivalry within the
ultra-competitive world of fifth-century Athenian theatre wins a
new lease on life in this fresh line-for-line translation by Peter
Meineck. Premiered in 2021 by Aquila Theatre and accompanied here
by Meineck's notes and wide-ranging Introduction, this Frogs offers
the best view yet of a high-stakes afterlife contest between two of
Athens's late great playwrights. Both are undisputed masters of
tragedy. But only one can win and return to save the city.
Theatrocracy is a book about the power of the theatre, how it can
affect the people who experience it, and the societies within which
it is embedded. It takes as its model the earliest theatrical form
we possess complete plays from, the classical Greek theatre of the
fifth century BCE, and offers a new approach to understanding how
ancient drama operated in performance and became such an
influential social, cultural, and political force, inspiring and
being influenced by revolutionary developments in political
engagement and citizen discourse. Key performative elements of
Greek theatre are analyzed from the perspective of the cognitive
sciences as embodied, live, enacted events, with new approaches to
narrative, space, masks, movement, music, words, emotions, and
empathy. This groundbreaking study combines research from the
fields of the affective sciences - the study of human emotions -
including cognitive theory, neuroscience, psychology, artificial
intelligence, psychiatry, and cognitive archaeology, with
classical, theatre, and performance studies. This book revisits
what Plato found so unsettling about drama - its ability to produce
a theatrocracy, a "government" of spectators - and argues that this
was not a negative but an essential element of Athenian theatre. It
shows that Athenian drama provided a place of alterity where
audiences were exposed to different viewpoints and radical
perspectives. This perspective was, and is, vital in a freethinking
democratic society where people are expected to vote on matters of
state. In order to achieve this goal, the theatre offered a
dissociative and absorbing experience that enhanced emotionality,
deepened understanding, and promoted empathy. There was, and still
is, an urgent imperative for theatre.
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.
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Oresteia (Paperback, New Ed)
Aeschylus; Translated by Peter Meineck; Introduction by Helene P Foley
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R380
Discovery Miles 3 800
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Meineck's translation is faithful and supple; the language employed
is modern without betraying the grandeur and
complexity--particularly the images--of the Aeschylean text. After
reading this translation, one has but one further wish: to see it
and hear it at Delphi, Epidaurus or Syracuse. --Herman Van Looy,
L'Antiquite Classique
The Routledge Handbook of Classics and Cognitive Theory is an
interdisciplinary volume that examines the application of cognitive
theory to the study of the classical world, across several
interrelated areas including linguistics, literary theory, social
practices, performance, artificial intelligence and archaeology.
With contributions from a diverse group of international scholars
working in this exciting new area, the volume explores the
processes of the mind drawing from research in psychology,
philosophy, neuroscience, and anthropology, and interrogates the
implications of these new approaches for the study of the ancient
world. Topics covered in this wide-ranging collection include:
cognitive linguistics applied to Homeric and early Greek texts,
Roman cultural semantics, linguistic embodiment in Latin
literature, group identities in Greek lyric, cognitive dissonance
in historiography, kinesthetic empathy in Sappho, artificial
intelligence in Hesiod and Greek drama, the enactivism of Roman
statues and memory and art in the Roman Empire. This
ground-breaking work is the first to organize the field, allowing
both scholars and students access to the methodologies,
bibliographies and techniques of the cognitive sciences and how
they have been applied to classics.
Aeschylus: The Libation Bearers ; Euripides: Electra ; Sophocles:
Electra
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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Philoctetes (Paperback)
Sophocles; Translated by Peter Meineck, Paul Woodruff
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R297
Discovery Miles 2 970
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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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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Philoctetes (Hardcover)
Sophocles; Translated by Peter Meineck, Paul Woodruff
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R873
R811
Discovery Miles 8 110
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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
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The Electra Plays (Hardcover)
Peter Meineck, Cecelia Eaton Luschnig, Paul Woodruff
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R1,058
R961
Discovery Miles 9 610
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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
Discovery Miles 9 420
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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.
Originally adapted for the stage, Peter Meineck's revised
translations achieve a level of fidelity appropriate for classroom
use while managing to preserve the wit and energy that led The New
Yorker to judge his Clouds The best Greek drama we've ever seen
anywhere," and The Times Literary Supplement to describe his Wasps
as "Hugely enjoyable and very, very funny. A general Introduction,
introductions to the plays, and detailed notes on staging, history,
religious practice and myth combine to make this a remarkably
useful teaching text.
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