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Core curriculum video libraries (Cambridge educational (Firm)) Core curriculum video library Great courses (Compact disc) Great courses (DVD) Greek tragedy in new translations Project Gutenberg 31 Sophocles (New York, N.Y.) Ted Kooser contemporary poetry The Greek tragedy in new translations Treading the boardsSophocles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 882.01 SOPSophocles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 882.01 SOPSophocles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 882 SOPSummary: Bearer of an almost unspeakable, immutable fate, Oedipus yet feels himself a man chosen-that is, favored-by the gods. Now an old man, blind and outcast, Oedipus wanders through Greece guided by his daughter Antigone until he comes to Colonus, where he knows he will die. Protected by the ruler of Thebes against the armies of Creon who have come in pursuit, he curses his son Polynices for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Antigone is perhaps the most easily accessible of all the great classical tragedies, its theme clear and up-to-date: the conflict between moral and political law. Now the tale of Oedipus and his family comes to its end-he, his wife Jocasta, his sons, and now, at the last, his daughter, all dead. Antigone is not the only victim in the play; Creon too comes to a tragic downfall-although he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Heaney, Seamus
Summary: Sophocles' play stands as a timely exploration of the conflict between those who affirm the individual's human rights and those who must protect the state's security. During the War of the Seven Against Thebes, Antigone learns that her brothers have killed each other, having been forced onto opposing sides. When Creon, king of Thebes, grants burial of one but not the "treacherous" other,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 882 HEASummary: The Stratford, Ontario, Shakespearean Festival Players, speaking through Greek-style masks, present the tragedy of Oedipus, who, having unwittingly slain his father and unknowingly married his mother, is driven by the plague that has swept through his kingdom to track down the evildoer who has polluted his land and its people.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2002
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1 available in Performing Arts DVDs, Call number: DVD PERFORMING ARTS OEDSummary: Sophocles often won the leading prize at the Dionysia, the principal dramatic festival of Athens; but Oedipus the King was a runner-up, winner of the second prize. Posterity, however, considers the play second to none. The play tells the beginning of the Oedipus saga, setting the stage and creating the characters who will continue the story to its conclusion in Antigone. With Michael...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Fears, J. Rufus.
Summary: Presents an examination of the lives, achievements, and influence of seminal figures in the history of ancient Greece.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 938.09 FAMSummary: Surveys over 70 literary geniuses and masterpieces of western literature. Examines the works, styles, themes and relationships with one another and the role they played both within the context of their own times and within the larger span of literary history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2004
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8 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 800 GRECall number: DVD 800 GRE PART 1
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Soupios, Michael A.
Summary: Applies ideas from Aristotle, Heraclitus, Sophocles, Hesiod, and other classical Greek thinkers to the challenges of the modern workplace.
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Publisher / Publication Date: AMACOM American Management Association 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.5 SOUSummary: They gave their names to some of the most memorable plays in Western history, and, thousands of years later, they are still very much a presence in contemporary culture. Who were the women of classical Greek drama? In this program, the presentation of powerful women in Medea, Antigone, and Lysistrata is contrasted with the circumscribed role of women in Athenian society by Princeton...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: This course explores six themes that every one of us has experienced or will experience: the unconquerable human spirit; youth, old age, and all that is between; romance and love; adventure and courage; laughter and irony; and patriotism.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2009
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3 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 800 FEA PART 1Call number: CD 800 FEA PART 2
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Summary: Why do plays well over two millennia old still speak to audiences today? This program traces Greek theater from ancient harvest rites to the golden age of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes. Key scenes from Antigone, Oedipus Tyrannus, Medea, and Lysistrata show how these works remain relevant by exploring the timeless themes of honor, class, gender, sexuality, and politics....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Vandiver, Elizabeth
Summary: Introduces students to Greek tragedy by setting the plays in their cultural and historical background.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2001
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 882 VANAristotle
Summary: Contains two works by ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle, including "Poetics," a critique of the literature of his time with reference to the plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides; and "Rhetoric," a discussion of the role of language in achieving precision and clarity of thought.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Franklin Library 1981
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 808.5 ARISummary: A Touch of Greatness is a feature-length documentary film focusing on the extraordinary work of Albert Cullum, an elementary school teacher for over twenty years and a pioneer in American education. Championing an unorthodox educational philosophy, Cullum regularly taught his elementary school children literary masterpieces, most notably the works of Shakespeare, Sophocles and Shaw. Combining...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aubin Pictures 2004
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TOUSummary: From the Greeks to the present, this program explores the evolution of play structure, staging techniques, and acting styles. Viewers learn about the following innovations, movements, and artistic figures: the open air amphitheater and its central role in the work of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides; the use of the chorus and masks; the role of theater in ancient Roman society; morality and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Jackson, Fleda Brown
Summary: The Woods Are On Fire is Fleda Brown’s deeply human and intensely felt poetic explorations of her life and world. Her account includes her brain-damaged brother, a rickety family cottage, a puzzling and sometimes frightening father, a timid mother, and the adult life that follows with its loves, divorces, and serious illnesses. Visually and emotionally rich, Brown’s poems call on Einstein,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 BROContents: v. 1-2. The syntopicon : an index to the great ideas -- 4. Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes -- 5. The history of Herodotus. The history of the Peloponnesian War / Thucydides -- 9. Hippocratic writings. On the natural faculties / Galen -- 10. The thirteen books of Euclid's elements. The works of Archimedes including the method. Introduction to arithmetic / by Nicomachus -- 11. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Encyclopaedia Britannica 1990