Charles Segal
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Charles Paul Segal was an American classicist renowned for his application of critical theory to ancient texts. Although his work spanned a variety of Latin and Greek genres, he is best known for his work on Greek tragedy. His most influential work is Tragedy and Civilization: an Interpretation of Sophocles , in which he presents a structuralist approach to Greek theatre.
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- The Rhetoric of Imitation: Genre and Poetic Memory in Virgil and Other Latin Poets (1996) (246)
- Gorgias and the Psychology of the Logos (1962) (193)
- Tragedy and Civilization: An Interpretation of Sophocles (1981) (168)
- Dionysiac Poetics and Euripides' Bacchae (1982) (116)
- Tragedy and Philosophy (1969) (110)
- The theme of the mutilation of the corpse in the Iliad (1971) (99)
- Singers, heroes, and gods in the Odyssey (1939) (98)
- Orpheus: The Myth of the Poet (1988) (56)
- Interpreting Greek Tragedy: Myth, Poetry, Text (1986) (46)
- Landscape in Ovid's Metamorphoses. A Study in the Transformations of a Literary Symbol (1970) (45)
- Euripides and the Poetics of Sorrow: Art, Gender, and Commemoration in Alcestis, Hippolytus , and Hecuba (1993) (41)
- Euripides and the poetics of sorrow (1993) (41)
- Sophocles' Tragic World: Divinity, Nature, Society (1995) (39)
- Orpheus and the Fourth Georgic: Vergil on Nature and Civilization (1966) (38)
- Oedipus Tyrannus: Tragic Heroism and the Limits of Knowledge (1993) (38)
- Language and desire in Seneca's Phaedra (1986) (36)
- Myth and Philosophy in the Metamorphoses: Ovid's Augustanism and the Augustan Conclusion of Book XV (1969) (33)
- The Two Worlds of Euripides' Helen (1971) (32)
- Boundary Violation and the Landscape of the Self in Senecan Tragedy (1983) (31)
- Philomela’s Web and the Pleasures of the Text: Reader and Violence in the Metamorphoses of Ovid (1994) (28)
- Poetic Immortality and the Fear of Death: The Second Proem of the De Rerum Natura (1989) (28)
- Bacchylides Reconsidered: Epithets and the Dynamics of Lyric Narrative (1976) (27)
- Curse and Oath in Euripides' Hippolytus (1972) (27)
- Υψοσ and the Problem of Cultural Decline in the De Sublimitate (1959) (26)
- The Character and Cults of Dionysus and the Unity of the Frogs (1961) (24)
- The Tragedy of the Hippolytus: The Waters of Ocean and the Untouched Meadow: In Memoriam Arthur Darby Nock (1965) (23)
- Messages to the Underworld: An Aspect of Poetic Immortalization in Pindar (1985) (23)
- Lucretius on death and anxiety (1990) (22)
- Poetry and Myth in Ancient Pastoral: Essays on Theocritus and Virgil (1981) (21)
- Andromache's Anagnorisis: Formulaic Artistry in Iliad 22.437-476 (1971) (21)
- Catullan Otiosi: The Lover and the Poet (1970) (20)
- Aglaia: The Poetry of Alcman, Sappho, Pindar, Bacchylides, and Corinna (1997) (19)
- Circean Temptations: Homer, Vergil, Ovid (1968) (18)
- Puritans, Indians, and manifest destiny (1977) (17)
- PASTORAL REALISM AND THE GOLDEN AGE: CORRESPONDENCE AND CONTRAST BETWEEN VIRGIL'S THIRD AND FOURTH ECLOGUES (1977) (17)
- Catullus 5 and 7: A Study in Complementaries (1968) (17)
- Euripides' Medea : Vengeance, Reversal and Closure (1996) (17)
- Violence and the Other: Greek, Female, and Barbarian in Euripides' Hecuba (1990) (16)
- FOUR. Eros and Incantation: Sappho and Oral Poetry (1996) (16)
- Early Epic Scenery: Homer, Virgil and the Medieval Legacy (1976) (15)
- Divine Justice in the Odyssey: Poseidon, Cyclops, and Helios (1992) (14)
- Choral lyric in the fifth century (1985) (12)
- The Electra of Sophocles (1966) (12)
- Senecan Baroque: The Death of Hippolytus in Seneca, Ovid, and Euripides (1984) (12)
- Golden Armor and Servile Robes: Heroism and Metamorphosis in Hecuba of Euripides (1990) (11)
- Vergil's Caelatum Opus: An Interpretation of the Third Eclogue (1967) (11)
- The Heroic Paradox: Essays on Homer, Sophocles, and Aristophanes@@@Dionysiac Poetics and Euripides' Bacchae (1985) (11)
- Visual Symbolism and Visual Effects in Sophocles (1980) (11)
- The Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite: A Structuralist Approach (1974) (10)
- Simaetha and the Iynx (Theocritus, Idyll II) (1973) (10)
- Beginnings in Classical Literature: Tragic beginnings: narration, voice, and authority in the prologues of Greek drama (1992) (10)
- Ovid's Orpheus and Augustan Ideology (1972) (10)
- Jupiter in Ovid's Metamorphoses (2001) (10)
- God and Man in Pindar's First and Third Olympian Odes (1964) (9)
- Dionysus and the Gold Tablets from Pelinna (1990) (9)
- On the Fifth Stasimon of Euripides' Medea (1997) (8)
- Pindar's Seventh Nemean (1967) (8)
- Song, Ritual, and Commemoration in Early Greek Poetry and Tragedy (1989) (8)
- Greek Tragedy: Sophocles' Trachiniae : myth, poetry, and heroic values (1977) (8)
- Archaic choral lyric (1985) (8)
- Dissonant Sympathy: Song, Orpheus, and the Golden Age in Seneca's Tragedies (1983) (8)
- Vergil's Sixth Eclogue and the Problem of Evil (1969) (7)
- Pentheus and Hippolytus on the Couch and on the Grid: Psychoanalytic and Structuralist Readings of Greek Tragedy (1978) (7)
- Theocritean Criticism and the Interpretation of the Fourth Idyll (1972) (6)
- The Magic of Orpheus and the Ambiguities of Language (1978) (6)
- Euripides' "Alcestis": Female Death and Male Tears (1992) (6)
- Tacitus and Poetic History: The End of Annals XIII (1973) (6)
- Ovid´s Meleager and the Greeks: Trials of Gender and Genre (1999) (5)
- Sophocles' Tragic World (1995) (5)
- Myth, Cult, and Memory in Pindar's Third and Fourth Isthmian Odes (1981) (5)
- The Problem of the Gods in Euripides' Hecuba (1989) (5)
- The Hydra's Nursling : Image and Action in the Trachiniae (1975) (5)
- Oedipus tyrannus : lame knowledge and the homosporic womb (1979) (5)
- Dido's Hesitation in "Aeneid" 4 (1990) (5)
- 2. Death by Water: A Narrative Pattern in Theocritus (Idylls 1, 13, 22, 23) (1981) (4)
- War, Death and Savagery in Lucretius: The Beasts of Battle in 5.1308-49 (1986) (4)
- Classics, Ecumenicism, and Greek Tragedy (1995) (4)
- Landscape into Myth: Theocritus' Bucolic Poetry (1975) (4)
- Euripides' Bacchae: Conflict and Mediation (1977) (4)
- Classics and Comparative Literature (1984) (4)
- Time, Oracles, and Marriage in the "Trachiniae" (1992) (4)
- Perseus and the Gorgon: Pindar Pythian 12.9-12 reconsidered (1995) (4)
- Lament and Recognition: A Reconsideration of the Ending of the Bacchae (1999) (4)
- Lucretius, Epilepsy, and the Hippocratic on Breaths (1970) (4)
- 1. "Since Daphnis Dies": The Meaning of Theocritus’ First Idyll (1981) (4)
- Simichidas' Modesty: Theocritus, Idyll 7.44 (1974) (3)
- Drama, Narrative and Perspective in Sophocles' Ajax (1989) (3)
- The Oracles of Sphocles´ Trachiniae: Convergence or Confusion? (2000) (3)
- HORACE, ODES 2.6 (1969) (3)
- Bride or Concubine? lole and Heracles' Motives in the Trachiniae (1994) (3)
- Pindar's mythmaking (1986) (3)
- The Embassy and the Duals of Iliad 9.182-98 (1968) (3)
- Sirius and the Pleiades in Alcman's Louvre Partheneion (1983) (3)
- Running after Philinus (Theocritus, "Idyll" 2.114 ff.) (1984) (2)
- Naming, Truth, and Creation in the Poetics of Pindar (1986) (2)
- Synaesthesia in Sophocles (1977) (2)
- Omero agonista in Delo (1984) (2)
- Confusion and Concealement in Euripides' Hippolytus. Vision, Hope, and Tragic Knowledge (1988) (2)
- Dreams and Poets in Lucretius (1990) (2)
- Solar Imagery and Tragic Heroism in Euripides’ Hippolytus (1979) (2)
- Admetus' Divided House: Spatial Dichotomies and Gender Roles in Euripides' Alcestis (1992) (2)
- Space, Time, and Imagination in Theocritus' Second "Idyll" (1985) (2)
- Book Review:Nietzsche on Tragedy M. S. Silk, J. P. Stern (1983) (1)
- 12. Tamen Cantabitis, Arcades: Exile and Arcadia in Eclogues 1 and 9 (1981) (1)
- Oedipus through the ages (2000) (1)
- Sacrifice and Violence in the Myth of Meleager and Heracles : Homer, Bacchylides, Sophocles in René Girard and Western Literature (1990) (1)
- Female Mourning and Dionysiac Lament in Euripides’ Bacchae (1994) (1)
- 6. Theocritus’ Seventh Idyll and Lycidas (1981) (1)
- CHAPTER EIGHT. Generals, Poets, and Philosophers: Death in the Perspective of Time and Eternity (1990) (1)
- Adonis and Aphrodite (Theocritus Idyll III 48) (1969) (1)
- Theatre, Ritual and Commemoration in Euripides' Hippolytus (1988) (1)
- Tragedy and Civilization: An Interpretation of Sophocles. Martin Classical Lectures, Volume XXV (1982) (1)
- Pindar, Mimnermus, and the "Zeus-Given Gleam": The End of "Pythian" 8 (1976) (1)
- 3. Trials of the Hero: Sexuality, Generational Passage, and the Seeds of Creation (1986) (1)
- Man's Measure. A Study of the Greek Image of Man from Homer to Sophocles (1976) (1)
- Divino e umano nel "Filottete" di Sofocle (1976) (1)
- Humanism and Classical Literature: Modern Problems and Perspectives. (1971) (1)
- Literary Genres in Greece and Rome. Introduction (1992) (1)
- Hippolytus « the Great » (1970) (1)
- CHAPTER THREE. The Wind-Scattered Soul (1990) (1)
- Violence and the Other: Greek, Female, and Barbarian (1993) (1)
- Introduction: Senecan Tragedy and the Drama of the Self (1986) (0)
- CHAPTER SEVEN. The Violation of Corporeal Boundaries, 2 (1990) (0)
- 4. Mythic Patterns I: Wandering and Foundation (1986) (0)
- PindarPindar's Mythmaking: The Fourth Pythian Ode (1988) (0)
- CHAPTER TEN. The Plague Reconsidered: Progress, Poet, and Philosopher (1990) (0)
- CHAPTER ONE. Lucretius's Adequacy to the Fear of Death: Logic, Poetry, and Emotion (1990) (0)
- 9. Sexual Conflict and Ideology (1986) (0)
- Euripides’ Muse of Sorrows and the Artifice of Tragic Pleasure (1993) (0)
- PASTORAL REALISM AND THE GOLDEN AGE: CORRESPONDENCE AND CONTRAST BETWEEN VIRGIL′S THIRD AND FOURTH ECLOGUES (1977) (0)
- CHAPTER NINE. War, Death, and Civilization: The End of Book 5 (1990) (0)
- Admetus’ Divided House: Spatial Dichotomies and Gender Roles (1993) (0)
- Sguardo retrospectivo sulla critica letteraria classica (2000) (0)
- 尤里皮迪斯的《米蒂亞》:暴力與女性之定位 (1997) (0)
- Natura, uomini e dei in Sofocle (1999) (0)
- Nine. Father, Underworld, and Retribution: Phaedra and Theseus (1986) (0)
- La "Medea" di Euripide. Violenza e immagine della donna (1997) (0)
- 5. Mythic Patterns II: The Voyage Beyond and Primordial Beginnings (1986) (0)
- Sofocle. Vincenzo Di Benedetto (1986) (0)
- Seven. Character Structure and Symbols of Power: Sword and Scepter (1986) (0)
- 2. The Language of Gods and Men (1986) (0)
- Female Death and Male Tears (1993) (0)
- The Battle in the River (1971) (0)
- 15. Caves, Pan, and Silenus: Virgil’s Sixth Eclogue and the Pastoral Epigrams of Theocritus (1981) (0)
- Six. Parental Models: Ideal and Nightmare (1986) (0)
- 6. The Wisdom of Oedipus (1986) (0)
- The Climax: Book 22 (1971) (0)
- Introduction: Theme and Formula (1971) (0)
- Resolution: Book 24 (1971) (0)
- The Problem of the Gods (1993) (0)
- Index of Works and Passages (1986) (0)
- Three. The Forest World (1986) (0)
- Law and Universals (1993) (0)
- More Alexandrianism in Catullus Vii (1974) (0)
- Books Received (1999) (0)
- Mutilation and Homeric Values (1971) (0)
- Reading Greek Tragedy. Simon Goldhill (1988) (0)
- CHAPTER ELEVEN. The Fear of Death and the Good Life (1990) (0)
- Eleven. Closure, Form, and the Father (1986) (0)
- Index of Passages (1990) (0)
- 2. Classical Criticism and the Canon, or, Why Read the Ancient Critics? (1994) (0)
- 10. Conclusion. Chionos: Time and Structure (1986) (0)
- Two. Imagery and the Landscape of Desire (1986) (0)
- Language, Signs, and Gender (1993) (0)
- I. Index of Names and Subjects (1974) (0)
- 1. Heroic Guile: The Craft of the Hero and the Art of the Poet (1986) (0)
- 4. Simaetha and the lynx (Theocritus, Idyll 2) (1981) (0)
- 3. Adonis and Aphrodite: Theocritus, Idyll 3.48 (1981) (0)
- Two Fauns and a Naiad? (Virgil, Ecl. 6, 13-26) (1971) (0)
- Golden Armour and Servile Robes: Heroism and Metamorphosis (1993) (0)
- 8. Thematic Coherence in Theocritus’ Bucolic Idylls (1981) (0)
- Four. The Golden Age and Nature (1986) (0)
- Index of Selected Words (1971) (0)
- Eight. Desire, Silence, and the Speech of the Sword (1986) (0)
- 7. Poetry and/or Ideology (1986) (0)
- Two Agonistic Problems in Pindar, Nemean 7.70-74 and Pythian 1.42-45 (2011) (0)
- Prelude: Books 16-20 (1971) (0)
- Ten. Seneca’s Patricide and the Trace of Writing (1986) (0)
- CHAPTER TWO. Atoms, Bodies, and Individuals: Death in Epicurus and Lucretius (1990) (0)
- One. Language and the Unconscious: Towards a Rhetorical View of Character (1986) (0)
- Five. Rivalry with the Father: Initiation and Failure (1986) (0)
- Introduction. Poets and Goatherds, Forests and Consuls: Art, Imagination, and Realism in Ancient Pastoral Poetry (1981) (0)
- Theater, Ritual, and Commemoration (1993) (0)
- The Order of Lines in Hippolytus 1452-56 (1970) (0)
- Book reviews (1995) (0)
- Twelve. Conclusion: Rhetoric and Reality (1986) (0)
- Cold Delight: Art, Death, and the Transgression of Genre (1993) (0)
- 8. Pindar's Post-Oral Poetics: Between Inspiration and Textuality (1986) (0)
- Perspective and Transition: Book 23 (1971) (0)
- CHAPTER FIVE. The World's Body and the Human Body: Walls, Boundaries, and Mortality (1990) (0)
- Sophocles Electra 610-11 Again (1982) (0)
- Iopas revisited ( Aeneid I 740 ff.) (1981) (0)
- Conclusion: Euripides’ Songs of Sorrow (1993) (0)
- Poetry, performance and soety in Early Greek Literature (1988) (0)
- CHAPTER FOUR. Nothingness and Eternity: The Fear of the Infinite (1990) (0)
- Confusion and Concealment: Vision, Hope, and Tragic Knowledge (1993) (0)
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