Books by Barbara Goff

A fascinating exploration of the relation of the Modern Olympic Games to the Classical tradition, examining claims of continuity between ancient and modern.

Set at the end of the Trojan war, this book depicts the women of Troy as they wait to be taken into slavery. It introduces readers to the issues that have divided critics, such as the extent to which the play responds to the historical events of the Peloponnesian War.

An investigation into the teaching of classics in the colonial education of West Africa in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

This 1990 book is a reading of Euripides' Hippolytos. Dr Goff approaches the play through the techniques of modern literary criticism, including deconstruction and feminism and is able to shed light on this influential text through her analysis of the language of the play.