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Simon Goldhill

Author of Love, Sex & Tragedy: How the Ancient World Shapes Our Lives

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Love, Sex & Tragedy: How the Ancient World Shapes Our Lives 140 copies, 3 reviews
Wonders of the World 137 copies, 1 review
The Temple of Jerusalem 42 copies, 2 reviews
Reading Greek Tragedy 41 copies
Foucault's Virginity: Ancient Erotic Fiction and the History of Sexuality… 29 copies
Jerusalem: City of Longing 23 copies
Who Needs Greek?: Contests in the Cultural History of Hellenism 19 copies
Aeschylus: The Oresteia (Landmarks of World Literature (New)) 17 copies
The Poet's Voice: Essays on Poetics and Greek Literature 13 copies
Freud's Couch, Scott's Buttocks, Bronte's Grave (Culture… 12 copies
The Invention of Prose (New Surveys in the Classics) 8 copies
How to Stage Greek Tragedy Today 8 copies
Victorian culture and classical antiquity : art, opera, fiction, and the… 6 copies
Sophocles and the Language of Tragedy (Onassis Series in Hellenic Culture) 6 copies

Visualizing the Tragic: Drama, Myth, and Ritual in Greek Art and… (Editor) 3 copies

Performance Culture and Athenian Democracy (also Editor) (Editor) 2 copies

The End of Dialogue in Antiquity (also Editor) (Editor) 2 copies

Being Greek under Rome: Cultural Identity, the Second Sophistic and the… (also Editor) (Editor) 2 copies

Art and Text in Ancient Greek Culture (also Editor) (Editor) 2 copies

Rethinking Revolutions through Ancient Greece (also Editor) (Editor) 2 copies

Language, sexuality, narrative: the Oresteia 1 copy

Andy Warhol: Eros and Mortality: The Late Male Nudes 1 copy

'Men, de and Nanno' in TLS 5065, 28 April 2000 [review of Daniel… 1 copy

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World Mythology (Contributor) 306 copies, 2 reviews
The Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy (Contributor) 88 copies
The Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Political Thought (Contributor) 43 copies, 2 reviews
Nothing to Do with Dionysos? Athenian Drama in Its Social Context (Contributor) 29 copies
Ancient Literacies: The Culture of Reading in Greece and Rome (Contributor) 27 copies
The Sleep of Reason: Erotic Experience and Sexual Ethics in Ancient Greece… (Contributor) 20 copies
The Cambridge Companion to the Greek and Roman Novel (Contributor) 11 copies
Tragedy and the Tragic: Greek Theatre and Beyond (Contributor) 8 copies
Greeks and Barbarians (Edinburgh Readings on the Ancient World) (Contributor) 7 copies
Laughing with Medusa: Classical Myth and Feminist Thought (Contributor) 7 copies
The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Rhetoric (Contributor) 6 copies
Xenophon (Oxford Readings in Classical Studies) (Contributor) 5 copies
The Soul of Tragedy: Essays on Athenian Drama (Contributor) 5 copies
Classics and the Uses of Reception (Classical Receptions) (Contributor) 4 copies

Modern Critical Theory and Classical Literature (Contributor) 3 copies

Greek Tragedy (Greece and Rome Studies) (Contributor) 2 copies

Homer in the Twentieth Century: Between World Literature and the Western… (Contributor) 2 copies

Poststructuralist Classics (Warwick Studies in Philosophy & Literature) (Contributor) 1 copy

Characterization and Individuality in Greek Literature (Contributor) 1 copy

Kosmos: Essays in Order, Conflict and Community in Classical Athens (Contributor) 1 copy

Performance, iconography, reception : studies in honour of Oliver Taplin (Contributor) 1 copy

Envy, Spite and Jealousy: The Rivalrous Emotions in Ancient Greece… (Contributor) 1 copy

Philostratus (Greek Culture in the Roman World) (Contributor) 1 copy

Contextualizing Classics: Ideology, Performance, Dialogue (Greek Studies.) (Contributor) 1 copy

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