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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 Sophoclean tragedy reflects the human condition in its constant and tragic struggle for order and civilized life against the ever-present threat of savagery and chaotic violence, both within society and within the individual. Tragedy and Civilization begins with a study of these themes and then proceeds to detailed discussions of each of the seven plays. For this edition Segal also provides a new preface discussing recent developments in the study of Sophocles.
| ISBN | 0806131365 | | Pages | 528 | | ISBN13 | 9780806131368
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | University of Oklahoma Press | | Weight (grammes) | 699 | | Imprint | University of Oklahoma Press | | Published in | Oklahoma | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 240 | | Publication date | 31 Dec 1999 | | Width (mm) | 155 | | Library of Congress | 98044168 | | Spine width (mm) | 31 | | DEWEY | 882.01 | | Academic level | Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly | | DEWEY edition | DC21 | |
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| | | Preface to the Paperback Edition | | | | | | Preface | | | | 1 | | Tragedy and the Civilizing Power | | 1 | | 2 | | A Structural Approach to Greek Myth and Tragedy | | 13 | | 3 | | Kingship, Ritual, Language | | 43 | | 4 | | Trachiniae | | 60 | | 5 | | Ajax | | 109 | | 6 | | Antigone: Death and Love, Hades and Dionysus | | 152 | | 7 | | Oedipus Tyrannus | | 207 | | 8 | | Electra | | 249 | | 9 | | Philoctetes: The Myth and the Gods | | 292 | | 10 | | Philoctetes: Society, Language, Friendship | | 328 | | 11 | | Oedipus at Colonus: The End of a Vision | | 362 | | | | Abbreviations | | 411 | | | | Notes | | 415 | | | | Selected Bibliography | | 489 | | | | Index Locorum | | 499 | | | | General Index | | 502 |
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