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ISBN: 9780801487262 - Singers, Heroes, and Gods in the Singers, Heroes, and Gods in the "Odyssey"
Charles Segal

ISBN10: 0801487269  ISBN13: 9780801487262
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 01 Mar 2001
One of the special charms of the Odyssey, according to Charles Segal, is the way it transports readers to fascinating places. Yet despite the appeal of its narrative, the Odyssey is fully understood only when its style, design, and mythical... More

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ISBN: 9780847686179 - Aglaia Aglaia
Charles Segal

ISBN10: 0847686175  ISBN13: 9780847686179
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Edition: Reissue
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 28 Dec 1998
In this landmark collection of essays, renowned classicist Charles Segal offers detailed analyses of major texts from archaic and early classical Greek poetry - in particular, works of Alcman, Mimnermus, Sappho, Pindar, Bacchylides, and Corinna. More

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ISBN: 9780691015972 - Dionysiac Poetics and Euripides' Dionysiac Poetics and Euripides' "Bacchae"
Charles Segal

ISBN10: 069101597X  ISBN13: 9780691015972
Publisher: The University Press Group Ltd Princeton University Press
Edition: Expanded edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 27 Oct 1997
Charles Segal's reading of Euripides' Bacchae builds gradually from concrete details of cult, setting, and imagery to the work's implications for the nature of myth, language, and theater. This volume presents the argument that the Dionysiac... More

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ISBN: 9780674821019 - Sophocles' Tragic World Sophocles' Tragic World
Charles Segal

ISBN10: 0674821017  ISBN13: 9780674821019
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 27 Feb 1998
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... More

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ISBN: 9780806131368 - Tragedy and Civilization Tragedy and Civilization
Charles Segal

ISBN10: 0806131365  ISBN13: 9780806131368
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 31 Dec 1999
Drawing on comprehensive analyses of all of Sophocles' plays, on structuralist anthropology, and on other extensive work on myth and tragedy, Charles Segal examines Sophocles both as a great dramatic poet and as a serious thinker. He shows how... More

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ISBN: 9780822313601 - Euripides and the Poetics of Sorrow Euripides and the Poetics of Sorrow
Charles Segal

ISBN10: 082231360X  ISBN13: 9780822313601
Publisher: Duke University Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 15 Jun 1993
Where is the pleasure in tragedy? This question, how suffering and sorrow become the stuff of aesthetic delight, is at the center of Charles Segal's new book, which collects and expands his recent explorations of Euripides' art. "Alcestis... More

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ISBN: 9780847686162 - Aglaia Aglaia
Charles Segal

ISBN10: 0847686167  ISBN13: 9780847686162
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Edition: 0352
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 28 Dec 1998
Summary Of The Book: In this landmark collection of essays, renowned classicist Charles Segal offers detailed analyses of major texts from archaic and early classical Greek poetry; in particular, works of Alcman, Mimnermus, Sappho, Pindar... More

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ISBN: 9780801847202 - Orpheus Orpheus
Charles Segal

ISBN10: 0801847206  ISBN13: 9780801847202
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 01 Aug 1993
This text surveys the literary treatment of the Orpheus myth as the myth of the essence of poetry; the ability to encounter the fullest intensity of beauty and sorrow and to transform them into song. It focuses on the ancient tradition and the... More

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ISBN: 9780691068268 - Lucretius on Death and Anxiety Lucretius on Death and Anxiety
Charles Segal

ISBN10: 0691068267  ISBN13: 9780691068268
Publisher: The University Press Group Ltd Princeton University Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 01 Dec 1990
In a fresh interpretation of Lucretius's On the Nature of Things, Charles Segal reveals this great poetical account of Epicurean philosophy as an important and profound document for the history of Western attitudes toward death. He shows that this... More

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ISBN: 9780801493621 - Interpreting Greek Tragedy Interpreting Greek Tragedy
Charles Segal

ISBN10: 0801493625  ISBN13: 9780801493621
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 31 Dec 1993