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  • ’Your Secret Language’
    Barbara Goff
    This book is the first to examine the complex and contradictory history of Classics in Sierra Leone, Ghana and Nigeria. It investigates how Classical Studies, as an integral part of colonial education, enforced a notion of cultural inferiority on African subjects, but conversely played an enabling role in nationalist expression. The enquiry is structured around three main quest...
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    66,76 €

  • Thinking the Olympics
    Barbara Goff
    This book is the first to focus on the theme of tradition as an integral feature of the ancient and modern Olympic Games. Just as ancient athletes and spectators were conscious of Olympic traditions of poetic praise, sporting achievement, and catastrophic shortcoming, so the revived Games have been consistently cast as a legacy of ancient Greece. The essays here examine how thi...
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    75,94 €

  • History, Tragedy, Theory
    Barbara Goff
    Greek tragedy has held sway over the imagination of audiences for well over two millennia. This collection of essays on Athenian drama, the proceedings of a conference held at the University of Texas at Austin in 1992, demonstrates that Greek tragedy still retains its power to provoke debate and to engage the interest of specialists and non-classicists alike. The book includes ...
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    33,65 €

  • Euripides
    Barbara Goff
    Set at the end of the Trojan war, 'Euripides’ Trojan Women' depicts the women of Troy as they wait to be taken into slavery. While choral songs recall the death-throes of the great city, the scenes between the old queen, Hekabe, and the women of her family explore the consequences of the defeat, from the rape of Cassandra, through the triumphant self-exculpation of Helen, to th...
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    44,90 €

  • The Noose of Words
    Barbara E. Goff / Barbara EGoff / Barbara Goff
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    54,75 €

  • Classics and Colonialism
    Barbara Goff
    This collection of well-focussed essays is the first to examine explicitly the role played by the literature and culture of classical antiquity in the various discourses that established, maintained or undermined the British empire. Drawing on reception studies and postcolonial studies, the contributors investigate topics such as the intersections among nineteenth- and twentiet...
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    51,42 €