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.
- ISBN10 0674902068
- ISBN13 9780674902060
- Publish Date 3 June 1981
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 12 January 1995
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Harvard University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 544
- Language English