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  • Language and Desire in Seneca’s Phaedra
    Charles Segal
    This close reading of Seneca’s most influential tragedy explores the question of how poetic language produces the impression of an individual self, a full personality with a conscious and unconscious emotional life.Originally published in 1986.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the d...
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    56,94 €

  • Poetry and Myth in Ancient Pastoral
    Charles Segal
    Collected in this volume are fifteen essays, previously published in a wide variety of journals, on the pastoral poetry of Theocritus and Virgil.Originally published in 1981.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions pr...
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    82,28 €

  • Lucretius on Death and Anxiety
    Charles Segal
    In a fresh interpretation of Lucretius’s On the Nature of Things, Charles Segal reveals this great poetical account of Epicurean philosophy as an important and profound document for the history of Western attitudes toward death. He shows that this poem, aimed at promoting spiritual tranquillity, confronts two anxieties about death not addressed in Epicurus’s abstract treatment-...
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    65,06 €

  • Pindar’s Mythmaking
    Charles Segal
    Combining historical and philological method with contemporary literary analysis, this study of Pindar’s longest and most elaborate victory ode, the Fourth Pythian, traces the underlying mythical patterns, implicit poetics, and processes of mythopoesis that animate his poetry.Originally published in 1986.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to...
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    50,18 €

  • Antigone
    Sophocles / Charles Segal / Reginald Gibbons
    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...
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    17,48 €

  • Conversations with Lincoln
    Charles Segal
    A Lincoln book that says something new is a rarity ...
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    42,82 €

  • Aglaia
    Charles Segal
    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...
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    98,18 €

  • Dionysiac Poetics and Euripides’ Bacchae
    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 g...
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    95,02 €