Preface

Introduction

Drama and Perspective in Ajax

Myth, Poetry, and Heroic Values in the Trachinian Women

Time, Oracles, and Marriage in the Trachinian Women

Philoctetes and the Imperishable Piety

Lament and Closure in Antigone

Time and Knowledge in the Tragedy of Oedipus

Freud, Language, and the Unconscious

The Gods and the Chorus: Zeus in Oedipus Tyrannus

Earth in Oedipus Tyrannus

Abbreviations

Notes

Index

Charles Segal is the late Walter C. Klein Professor of the Classics, Harvard University.

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