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  • Dionysiac Poetics and Euripides' Bacchae

    Expanded Edition

    by 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 gradually from ... Read more

    $61.19 USD

  • Aglaia

    The Poetry of Alcman, Sappho, Pindar, Bacchylides, and Corinna

    by Charles Segal ...
    Series series Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches
    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 of their aims and ... Read more

    $72.89 USD

  • Conversations with Lincoln

    by Charles Segal ...
    A Lincoln book that says something new is a rarity. Conversations with Lincoln is just such a book. In it Charles M. Segal has collected and presented more than one hundred interviews with Lincoln as President-elect and President. As a revelation of the intimate, human side of Abraham Lincoln, it will be a source of endless fascination to every reader interested in the Civil War era. This is a ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Euripides and the Poetics of Sorrow

    Art, Gender, and Commemoration in Alcestis, Hippolytus, and Hecuba

    by Charles Segal ...
    Where is the pleasure in tragedy? This question, how suffering and sorrow become the stuff of aesthetic delight, is at the center of Charles Segal's new book, which collects and expands his recent explorations of Euripides' art.Alcestis, Hippolytus, and Hecuba, the three early plays interpreted here, are linked by common themes of violence, death, lamentation and mourning, and by their implicit ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

  • Antigone

    by Sophocles, Reginald Gibbons, Charles Segal ...
    Series series Greek Tragedy in New Translations
    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-serving allegiance ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • The Military In New Times

    Adapting Armed Forces To A Turbulent World

    by James Burk, Robert J Waldman, David R Segal, Charles C Moskos ...
    What role will armed forces play in a world that is turbulent yet no longer organized by the bipolar conflict of East and West? In this volume, leading experts from several disciplines assess the rapidly changing global strategic and cultural landscape, examining how it will affect the responsibilities and social standing of the modern military. There are provocative disagreements among the ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Preventing Medication Errors and Improving Drug Therapy Outcomes

    A Management Systems Approach

    by Charles D. Hepler, Richard Segal ...
    Read this book in order to learn: Why medicines often fail to produce the desired result and how such failures can be avoided How to think about drug product safety and effectiveness How the main participants in a medications use system can improve outcomes and how professional and personal values, attitudes, and ethical reasoning fit into ... Read more

    $375.00 USD

  • Bakkhai

    by Reginald Gibbons ...
    Translated by Charles Segal ...
    Series series Greek Tragedy in New Translations
    Regarded by many as Euripides' masterpiece, Bakkhai is a powerful examination of religious ecstasy and the resistance to it. A call for moderation, it rejects the temptation of pure reason as well as pure sensuality, and is a staple of Greek tragedy, representing in structure and thematics an exemplary model of the classic tragic elements. Disguised as a young holy man, the god Bacchus arrives in ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • Interpreting Greek Tragedy

    Myth, Poetry, Text

    by Charles Segal ...
    This generous selection of published essays by the distinguished classicist Charles Segal represents over twenty years of critical inquiry into the questions of what Greek tragedy is and what it means for modern-day readers. Taken together, the essays reflect profound changes in the study of Greek tragedy in the United States during this period-in particular, the increasing emphasis on myth, ... Read more

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