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  • Euripides and the Poetics of Sorrow

    Art, Gender, and Commemoration in Alcestis, Hippolytus, and Hecuba

    de Charles Segal ...
    Where is the pleasure in tragedy? This question, how suffering and sorrow become the stuff of aesthetic delight, is at the center of Charles Segal's new book, which collects and expands his recent explorations of Euripides' art.Alcestis, Hippolytus, and Hecuba, the three early plays interpreted here, are linked by common themes of violence, death, lamentation and mourning, and by their implicit ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

  • Dionysiac Poetics and Euripides' Bacchae

    Expanded Edition

    de Charles Segal ...
    In his play Bacchae, Euripides chooses as his central figure the god who crosses the boundaries among god, man, and beast, between reality and imagination, and between art and madness. In so doing, he explores what in tragedy is able to reach beyond the social, ritual, and historical context from which tragedy itself rises. Charles Segal's reading of Euripides' Bacchae builds gradually from ... Leer más

    $61.19 USD

  • Antigone

    Series series Greek Tragedy in New Translations
    Oedipus, the former ruler of Thebes, has died. Now, when his young daughter Antigone defies her uncle, Kreon, the new ruler, because he has prohibited the burial of her dead brother, she and he enact a primal conflict between young and old, woman and man, individual and ruler, family and state, courageous and self-sacrificing reverence for the gods of the earth and perhaps self-serving allegiance ... Leer más

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  • L'uditore e lo spettatore

    Traducido por Luca Falaschi ...
    de Charles Segal ...
    I Greci sono un popolo di spettatori. Curiosi per natura gli uni degli altri, attenti alle differenze tra loro e l'Altro i non Greci, i «barbari» , sono buoni osservatori e abili narratori. Entrambe le qualità spiccano in tutta l'opera dei due grandi narratori che si situano all'inizio e alla fine dell'età arcaica: Omero, che compose e recitò oralmente i suoi grandi canti epici alla fine dell'VIII ... Leer más

    $1.99 USD

  • Conversations with Lincoln

    de Charles Segal ...
    A Lincoln book that says something new is a rarity. Conversations with Lincoln is just such a book. In it Charles M. Segal has collected and presented more than one hundred interviews with Lincoln as President-elect and President. As a revelation of the intimate, human side of Abraham Lincoln, it will be a source of endless fascination to every reader interested in the Civil War era. This is a ... Leer más

    $34.99 USD

  • Bakkhai

    Traducido por Charles Segal ...
    Series series Greek Tragedy in New Translations
    Regarded by many as Euripides' masterpiece, Bakkhai is a powerful examination of religious ecstasy and the resistance to it. A call for moderation, it rejects the temptation of pure reason as well as pure sensuality, and is a staple of Greek tragedy, representing in structure and thematics an exemplary model of the classic tragic elements. Disguised as a young holy man, the god Bacchus arrives in ... Leer más

    $32.99 USD

  • Aglaia

    The Poetry of Alcman, Sappho, Pindar, Bacchylides, and Corinna

    de Charles Segal ...
    Series series Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches
    In this landmark collection of essays, renowned classicist Charles Segal offers detailed analyses of major texts from archaic and early classical Greek poetry; in particular, works of Alcman, Mimnermus, Sappho, Pindar, Bacchylides, and Corinna. Segal provides close readings of the texts, and then studies the literary form and language of early Greek lyric, the poets' conception of their aims and ... Leer más

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  • Interpreting Greek Tragedy

    Myth, Poetry, Text

    de Charles Segal ...
    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 and what it means for modern-day readers. Taken together, the essays reflect profound changes in the study of Greek tragedy in the United States during this period-in particular, the increasing emphasis on myth, ... Leer más

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  • Medea and Other Plays

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    Traducido por John Davie ...
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