Euripides and the Tragic Tradition asks all the right questions. It forces us to confront the many contradictions in Euripides' work, demonstrates the differenc

Tragic Workings in Euripides? Drama' offers a substantially new theory and method for understanding Attic tragedy. Starting from anthropological insights, and d

This book contains essays by international experts on Sophocles, asking why he matters, and why he is still read and performed today. His seven surviving traged

The Music of Tragedy offers a new approach to the study of classical Greek theater by examining the use of musical language, imagery, and performance in the lat

This generous selection of published essays by the distinguished classicist Charles Segal represents over twenty years of critical inquiry into the questions of