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Drawing on comprehensive analyses of all of Sophocles' plays, on structuralist anthropology, and on other extensive work on myth and tragedy, Charles Segal examines Sophocles both as a great dramatic poet and as a serious thinker. He shows how Sophoclean tragedy reflects the human condition in its constant and tragic struggle for order and civilized life against the ever-present threat of savagery and chaotic violence, both within society and within the individual. For this edition Segal also provides a new preface discussing recent developments in the study of Sophocles.

Book details

• Full title: Tragedy and Civilization
• Author: Charles Segal
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 528
• EAN: 9780806131368
• ISBN: 0806131365
• ID: 11524683
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Weight: 808 g
• Dimensions: 153 × 229 × 36 mm
• Date of publishing: 15. March 1999

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