Tragedy and Civilization

An Interpretation of Sophocles

Charles Segal

    1. Tragedy and the Civilizing Power

    2. A Structural Approach to Greek Myth and Tragedy

    3. Kingship, Ritual, Language

    4. Trachiniae

    5. Ajax

    6. Antigone: Death and Love, Hades and Dionysus

    7. Oedipus Tyrannus

    8. Electra

    9. Philoctetes: The Myth and the Gods

    10. Philoctetes: Society, Language, Friendship

    11. Oedipus at Colonus: The End of a Vision

    Abbreviations

    Notes

    Selected Bibliography

    Index Locorum

    General Index

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  • A photo of the author

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