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Sophocles' Tragic World - Divinity, Nature, Society (Paperback, Revised)
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Sophocles' Tragic World - Divinity, Nature, Society (Paperback, Revised)
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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. He pays particular attention to the
mythic and ritual backgrounds of the plays, noting Sophocles'
reinterpretation of the ancient myths. His delineation of the
heroes and their tragedies encompasses their relations with city
and family, conflicts between men and women, defiance of social
institutions, and the interaction of society, nature, and the gods.
Segal's analysis sheds new light on Sophocles' plays--among the
most widely read works of classical literature--and on their
implications for Greek views on the gods, moral life, and
sexuality.
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