Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Drama and Perspective in Ajax -- 2. Myth, Poetry, and Heroic Values in the Trachinian Women -- 3. Time, Oracles, and Marriage in the Trachinian Women -- 4. Philoctetes and the Imperishable Piety -- 5. Lament and Closure in Antigone -- 6. Time and Knowledge in the Tragedy of Oedipus -- 7. Freud, Language, and the Unconscious -- 8. The Gods and the Chorus: Zeus in Oedipus Tyrannus -- 9. Earth in Oedipus Tyrannus -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Index.
In a series of interconnected essays, Charles Segal studies five of Sophocles' seven extant plays: Ajax, Oedipus Tyrannus, Philoctetes, Antigone, and the often neglected Trachinian Women.
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Sophocles-Criticism and interpretation. Greek drama (Tragedy)-History and criticism. Religious drama, Greek-History and criticism. Literature and society-Greece. Gods, Greek, in literature. Nature in literature.