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The sparkling plays about the scoundrelly valet Figaro, used as the basis of operas by Mozart and Roissini A highly engaging comedy of intrigue, The Barber of Seville portrays the resourceful Figaro...

This volume contains the complete libretti for Mozart's operas "Le nozze di Figaro" (The marriage of Figaro) and "Così fan tutti" (Women are like that) in the original Italian with line-for-line...

Alors que Figaro, le valet du comte Almaviva, doit épouser Suzanne, la première camériste de la comtesse, son maître, sensible aux charmes de la future mariée, décide de restaurer le droit de...

Oubliant les nombreux services que son valet Figaro lui a rendus dans Le Barbier de Séville, le comte Almaviva tente de lui dérober sa fiancée Suzanne.Avec l'ingéniosité de celle-ci et l'aide de la...

In this engaging and readable narrative, noted classicist and author Robin Waterfield traces the life and history of the city of Athens, with an emphasis on the classical period when, in the space of...

"A critical history of the recurring idea that technology will free us from work and bring about a truly democratic society. In popular thought, ancient Athens endures as a place ahead of its...

"From an award-winning historian, the definitive history of classical Greece and the rivalry of its two greatest cities. No period has more profoundly influenced the Western world than classical...

How does the funeral oration relate to democracy in ancient Greece? How did the death of an individual citizen-soldier become the occasion to praise the city of Athens? In The Invention of Athens,...

"The seventh century BC in ancient Greece is referred to as the Orientalizing period because of the strong presence of Near Eastern elements in art and culture. Conventional narratives argue that...

Like Wescott's extraordinary novella The Pilgrim Hawk (which Susan Sontag described in The New Yorker as belonging "among the treasures of 20th-century American literature"), Apartment in Athens...

Athens Tales is a portrait of Greece's capital through the city's own writers. The book is made up of eighteen short stories, in English translation, by different Greek authors, some of whom have...

What was ancient democracy like? Why did it spread in ancient Greece? An astonishing number of volumes have been devoted to the well-attested Athenian case, while non-Athenian democracy - for which...

This exciting series focuses on the vitality and uniqueness of the world's greatest cities. Each volume is superbly designed and produced, yet ingeniously practical, with lavish photography,...

In 2000, Seattle, Washington, became the first U.S. city to officially adopt the U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) “Silver” standards for its own...

The arrival of the Sophists in Athens in the middle of the fifth century B.C. was a major intellectual event, for they brought with them a new method of teaching founded on rhetoric and bold...

The authoritative edition of Timon of Athens from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers.The real Timon of Athens lived there...

Make the most of every day and every dollar with Rick Steves! This colorful, compact guidebook is perfect for spending a week or less in Athens: City walks and tours: Five detailed tours and walks...

What did citizenship really mean in classical Athens? It is conventionally understood as characterised by holding political office. Since only men could do so, only they were considered to be...

"Classicist Carawan explores changes in the judicial review of laws in ancient democratic Athens over time. Reassessing the accumulated evidence, he constructs a new model of how the courts shaped...