Charles Segal (1936–2002) taught classics at the University of Pennsylvania, Brown University, Princeton University, and Harvard University, where he was Walter C. Klein Professor of the Classics. Among his many books are, as author, Interpreting Greek Tragedy: Myth, Poetry, Text and Singers, Heroes, and Gods in the „Odyssey“, both published by Cornell University Press.
13 Ebooks von Charles Segal
Charles Segal: Pindar’s Mythmaking
Combining historical and philological method with contemporary literary analysis, this study of Pindar’s longest and most elaborate victory ode, the Fourth Pythian, traces the underlying mythical pat …
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€39.99
Charles Segal: Poetry and Myth in Ancient Pastoral
Collected in this volume are fifteen essays, previously published in a wide variety of journals, on the pastoral poetry of Theocritus and Virgil. Originally published in 1981. The Princeton Legacy Li …
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€62.99
Charles Segal: Lucretius on Death and Anxiety
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 We …
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€49.99
Charles Segal: Language and Desire in Seneca’s Phaedra
This close reading of Seneca’s most influential tragedy explores the question of how poetic language produces the impression of an individual self, a full personality with a conscious and unconscious …
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€44.99
Charles Segal: Interpreting Greek Tragedy
This generous selection of published essays by the distinguished classicist Charles Segal represents over twenty years of critical inquiry into the questions of what Greek tragedy is and what it mean …
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Euripides: Bakkhai
Regarded by many as Euripides‘ masterpiece, Bakkhai is a powerful examination of religious ecstasy and the resistance to it. A call for moderation, it rejects the temptation of pure reason as well as …
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€12.49
Sophocles: Antigone
Oedipus, the former ruler of Thebes, has died. Now, when his young daughter Antigone defies her uncle, Kreon, the new ruler, because he has prohibited the burial of her dead brother, she and he enact …
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€8.35
Sophocles: Antigone
Oedipus, the former ruler of Thebes, has died. Now, when his young daughter Antigone defies her uncle, Kreon, the new ruler, because he has prohibited the burial of her dead brother, she and he enact …
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€8.35
Euripides: Bakkhai
Regarded by many as Euripides‘ masterpiece, Bakkhai is a powerful examination of religious ecstasy and the resistance to it. A call for moderation, it rejects the temptation of pure reason as well as …
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€10.40
Charles Segal: Conversations with Lincoln
A Lincoln book that says something new is a rarity. Conversations with Lincoln is just such a book. In it Charles M. Segal has collected and presented more than one hundred interviews with Lincoln as …
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€22.56
Charles Segal: Conversations with Lincoln
A Lincoln book that says something new is a rarity. Conversations with Lincoln is just such a book. In it Charles M. Segal has collected and presented more than one hundred interviews with Lincoln as …
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€22.48
Charles Segal: Dionysiac Poetics and Euripides‘ Bacchae
In his play Bacchae, Euripides chooses as his central figure the god who crosses the boundaries among god, man, and beast, between reality and imagination, and between art and madness. In so doing, h …
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€79.99
