Sophocles' tragic world
divinity, nature, society
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Author
Publication
1995 - Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass, Massachusetts
Language
English
Word Count
69,000 words, Guess
Page Count
276 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL783249M
- ISBN-100674821009
- OCLC Control Number32348200
- OCLC Control Numbersophoclestragicw00sega
- Library of Congress Control Number95015249
and 2 more
- LibraryThing381659
- Goodreads1758
Classifications
- DDC882/.01
- LCCPA4417 .S46 1995
Description
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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