The Politics of Re-(en)visioning: Contemporary British Rewritings of Greek and Roman Tragedies

This thesis examines three different kinds of socio-political rewritings of Greek and Roman tragedies – Sarah Kane’s “Phaedra’s Love”, Tony Harrison’s “Prometheus”, and Martin Crimp’s “Cruel and Tender” – written, staged or screened in Britain (and, more precisely, England) between 1996 and 2004. Offering close readings of these re-visionary appropriations, this dissertation analyses some of the innumerable and unexpected forms that ancient tragedy can assume today. In particular, it explores how three talented British authors have subverted the conventions of the noblest literary and dramatic genre in order to (re)write contemporaneity in ways that oscillate between the personal and the public, the local and the global, the national and the transnational.

Aeschyli Prometheus vinctus

Title in Greek at head of t.-p.; text in Greek.

Aeschyli Prometheus vinctus : ad fidem manuscriptorum emendavit notas et glossarium adjecit Carolu Jacobus Blomfield.

Title in Greek at head of t.-p.; text in Greek with Latin commentary.

Greek dramas

The Prometheus bound of Æschylus; tr. by Elizabeth B. Browning. The Agamemnon of Æschylus; tr. by R. Potter.--The Antigone of Sophocles; tr. by R.C. Jebb.--The Œdipus Tyrannus of Sophocles; tr. by T. Francklin.--The Alcestis of Euripides; tr. by A.S. Way.--The Medea of Euripides; tr. by A.S. Way.--The clouds of Aristophanes; tr. by W.J. Hickie.--The Plutus of Aristophanes; tr. by W.J. Hickie.

Aeschyli Prometheus vinctus : ad fidem manuscriptorum emendavit notas et glossarium adjecit Carolu Jacobus Blomfield.

Title in Greek at head of t.-p.; text in Greek with Latin commentary.

Plays, by Greek, Spanish, French, German and English dramatists,

--v. 1. [Eschylus] Prometheus bound. [Sophocles] Oedipus rex. [Euripides] Medea. [Aristophanes] The knights. [Calderon, P.] Life a dream. [Molière, J.B.P.] The misanthrope. [Racine, J.B.] Phædra. [Goldsmith, O.] She stoops to conquer.--v. 2. [Goethe, J.W. von] Faust. [Sheridan, R.B.] The rivals. [Schiller, F. von] Mary Stuart. [Ibsen, H.] A doll's house. [Sardou, V.] Les pattes de mouche.

Nine Greek dramas /

The house of Atreus (Aeschylus) tr. by E.D.A. Morshead.- Prometheus bound (Aeschylus) tr. by E.H. Plumptre.- Oedipus, the king (Sophocles).- Antigone (Sophocles) tr. by E.H. Plumptre.- Hippolytus (Euripides).- The Bacchae (Euripides) tr. by Gilbert Murray.- The frogs (Aristophanes) tr. by B.B. Rogers.

From Greek temple to bird's nest : mapping, assessing and understanding national integrity systems

In this paper, I would like to outline the approach we have taken to mapping and assessing integrity systems and how this has led us to see integrity systems in a new light. Indeed, it has led us to a new visual metaphor for integrity systems – a bird’s nest rather than a Greek temple. This was the result of a pair of major research projects completed in partnership with Transparency International (TI). One worked on refining and extending the measurement of corruption. This, the second, looked at what was then the emerging institutional means for reducing corruption – ‘national integrity systems’

Greek or not : the use of symbols and abbreviations in mathematics

The use of symbols and abbreviations adds uniqueness and complexity to the mathematical language register. In this article, the reader’s attention is drawn to the multitude of symbols and abbreviations which are used in mathematics. The conventions which underpin the use of the symbols and abbreviations and the linguistic difficulties which learners of mathematics may encounter due to the inclusion of the symbolic language are discussed. 2010 NAPLAN numeracy tests are used to illustrate examples of the complexities of the symbolic language of mathematics.

‘…souvlaki and a bit of lemon’: An Aboriginal Australian Greek Story.

In Victoria, Aboriginal peoples are collectively known as Koories (Koori History Website 2014). It’s a name that most people are comfortable with, even though each Koori will also hold their own specific tribal affiliations (Horton 1999). For example, the people of the Kulin nation are the Traditional Owners of the land that is now known by the English name of Melbourne. I am an Aboriginal Australian woman who originates from south-east Queensland (Brisbane/Ipswich). In south-east Queensland, some groups are collectively referred to as Murries...

Remixing Canadian copyright law: A review essay on'An Emerging Intellectual Property Paradigm','Canadian Copyright: A Citizen's Guide'; and'RiP!: A Remix Manifesto', Prometheus, Vol. 27 (3), p. 297-305

In her album, Hymns of the 49th Parallel, the chanteuse K.D. Lang pays tribute to a series of great Canadian songwriters—such as Neil Young, Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell and Jane Siberry. In a similar spirit of celebration, this review essay pays homage to a number of recent texts and films dealing with Canadian intellectual property. First, it considers Ysolde Gendreau’s collection, An Emerging Intellectual Property Paradigm: Perspectives from Canada. Second, this essay looks at Laura Murray and Samuel Trosow’s manual, Canadian Copyright: A Citizen’s Guide. Finally, this review evaluates Brett Gaylor’s documentary, RiP! A Remix Manifesto. The three works share certain affinities—a spirit of scepticism about the legitimacy and the efficacy of existing networks of law, policy and bureaucracy; a populist interest in the impact of intellectual property on the everyday lives of citizens, creators and consumers; a passion for human rights; and a melioristic desire for sensible law reform of copyright law and related regimes of intellectual property.