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Sophocles' Tragic World : Divinity, Nature, Society.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 1995Copyright date: ©1995Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (290 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674043428
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Sophocles' Tragic WorldLOC classification:
  • PA4417
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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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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