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" Sophocles' tragic world : "
Charles Segal
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632083
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Segal, Charles,1936-2002
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Sophocles' tragic world : : divinity, nature, society /\ Charles Segal
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xii, 276 pages ;; 24 cm
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0674821009
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: 9780674821002
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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1. Drama and Perspective in Ajax -- 2. Myth, Poetry, and Heroic Values in the Trachinian Women -- 3. Time, Oracles, and Marriage in the Trachinian Women -- 4. Philoctetes and the Imperishable Piety -- 5. Lament and Closure in Antigone -- 6. Time and Knowledge in the Tragedy of Oedipus -- 7. Freud, Language, and the Unconscious -- 8. The Gods and the Chorus: Zeus in Oedipus Tyrannus -- 9. Earth in Oedipus Tyrannus
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Much has been written about the heroic figures of Sophocles' powerful dramas. Now Charles Segal focuses our attention not on individual heroes and heroines, but on the world that inspired and motivated their actions - a universe of family, city, nature, and the supernatural. He shows how these ancient masterpieces offer insight into the abiding question of tragedy: how one can make sense of a world that involves so much apparently meaningless violence and suffering. In a series of engagingly written interconnected essays, Segal studies five of Sophocles' seven extant plays: Ajax, Oedipus Tyrannus, Philoctetes, Antigone, and the often neglected Trachinian Women. He examines the language and structure of the plays from several interpretive perspectives, drawing both on traditional philological analysis and on current literary and cultural theory
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Sophocles-- Criticism and interpretation
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Religious drama, Greek-- History and criticism
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Literature and society-- Greece
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Mythology, Greek, in literature
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Gods, Greek, in literature
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Nature in literature
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Tragedy
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Grieks
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Tragedies
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882/.01
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PA4417.S46 1995
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