Interpreting Greek Tragedy: Myth, Poetry, Text

Charles Segal

Open Access Published by Cornell University Press 1986

Interpreting Greek Tragedy

Myth, Poetry, Text

Charles Segal
Funded by: National Endowment for the Humanities Open Book Program

https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501746703

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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...

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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.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	7
Preface Open Access Download PDF	9
Acknowledgments Open Access Download PDF	13
Abbreviations Open Access Download PDF	15
I. GREEK TRAGEDY: MYTH AND STRUCTURE
1. Greek Tragedy and Society: A Structuralist Perspective Open Access Download PDF	21
2. Greek Myth as a Semiotic and Structural System and the Problem of Tragedy Open Access Download PDF	48
3. Greek Tragedy: Writing, Truth, and the Representation of the Self Open Access Download PDF	75
II. SOPHOCLES
4. Visual Symbolism and Visual Effects in Sophocles Open Access Download PDF	113
5. Sophocles' Praise of Man and the Conflicts of the Antigone Open Access Download PDF	137
III. EURIPIDES
6. The Tragedy of the Hippolytus: The Waters of Ocean and the Untouched Meadow Open Access Download PDF	165
7. The Two Worlds of Euripides' Helen Open Access Download PDF	222
8. Pentheus and Hippolytus on the Couch and on the Grid: Psychoanalytic and Structuralist Readings of Greek Tragedy Open Access Download PDF	268
9. Euripides' Bacchae: The Language of the Self and the Language of the Mysteries Open Access Download PDF	294
IV. TRANSFORMATIONS
10. Boundary Violation and the Landscape of the Self in Senecan Tragedy Open Access Download PDF	315
11. Tragedy, Corporeality, and the Texture of Language: Matricide in the Three Electra Plays Open Access Download PDF	337
12. Literature and Interpretation: Conventions, History, and Universals Open Access Download PDF	359
Index Open Access Download PDF	377

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Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Audience: General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 390
Keywords: Ancient History & Classical Studies; Poetry & Criticism; Literary Studies

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Published: May 15, 2019
ISBN: 9781501746703