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1) Lysistrata
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Along with Sophocles and Euripides, Aristophanes is considered one of the three great Greek playwrights. Only eleven of his nearly forty plays survive in their entirety to this day. Of his extant works Aristophanes's "Lysistrata" is considered one of his finest and one of the truly great comedies from classical antiquity. Central to the work is the vow by the women of Greece to withhold sex from their husbands until they end the brutal war between...
Author
Series
Great books of the western world volume 6
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[c1920]
Physical Desc
2v
Language
English
Description
The Dialogues of Plato, written between 427 and 347 b.c., rank among the most important and influential works in Western thought. Most famous are the first four, in which Plato casts his teacher Socrates as the central disputant in colloquies that brilliantly probe a vast spectrum of philosophical ideas and issues. Socrates' ancient words are still true, and the ideas found in Plato's Dialogues still form the foundation of a thinking person's education....
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Toula is a quiet, devoted daughter in a big, crazy Greek family. Working in her father's restaurant, she hides behind her family and keeps the world at a distance. One day at the restaurant she finds herself pouring coffee for a man who inspires her to change her life, and the way she sees the world ... forever.
Author
Series
Complete Greek tragedies. Aeschylus volume 1
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
1953
Physical Desc
vii, 170 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
7) Dogtooth
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Greek
Description
A darkly surreal look at three teenagers confined to an isolated country estate and kept under strict rule and regimen by their parents - an alternately hilarious and nightmarish experiment of manipulation and oppression.
"Hilarious, macabre, and baffling..."--New York Times
Author
Publisher
Naxos AudioBooks
Pub. Date
p1996
Physical Desc
3 compact discs (3:54:10) : analog, Dolby processed.
Language
English
Description
In this, the first prose history in European civilization, Herodotus tells the heroic tale of the Greeks' resistance to the vast invading force assembled by Xerxes, King of Persia. Here are not only the great battles--Marathon, Thermopylae, Salamis--but also penetrating human insight and a powerful sense of epic destiny at work.
9) Chevalier
Publisher
Strand Releasing Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Greek
Description
In the middle of the Aegean Sea on a luxury yacht, six men on a fishing trip decide to play a game to deem who among them is the overall 'best'. During this game, things will be compared, measured and blood will be tested. Friends will become rivals, but at the end of the voyage, when the game is over, the winner will wear the victorious signet ring: the Chevalier.
10) Xenia
Publisher
Strand Releasing Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (128 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Greek
Description
Two young brothers search for their birth father across the colorful landscape of Greece.
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