Mocked with Death: Tragic Overliving from Sophocles to Milton 0801879647, 2004008931

Sophocles' Tragic World: Divinity, Nature, Society 9780674043428

In a series of interconnected essays, Charles Segal studies five of Sophocles' seven extant plays: Ajax, Oedipus Ty

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Oedipus at Thebes: Sophocles' Tragic Hero and His Time 9780300147100

In Oedipus, Sophocles created a character who was the essence of his age, a figure of such symbolic potency that he appe

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Sophocles and the Greek Tragic Tradition 1107404045, 9781107404045

This book contains thirteen essays by senior international experts on Greek tragedy looking at Sophocles' dramas. T

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Oedipus, oracles, and meaning : from Sophocles to Umberto Eco

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Outmaneuvered : America's Tragic Encounter with Warfare from Vietnam to Afghanistan 9781668004579, 9781668004555

From a celebrated military historian, a highly engaging and thought-provoking exploration of why the United States has f

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Outmaneuvered - America's Tragic Encounter with Warfare from Vietnam to Afghanistan [1 ed.] 9781668004579, 9781668004555

From a celebrated military historian, a highly engaging and thought-provoking exploration of why the United States has f

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Machiavellian Rhetoric: From the Counter-Reformation to Milton 9781400821280

Historians of political thought have argued that the real Machiavelli is the republican thinker and theorist of civic vi

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Domestic Georgic: Labors of Preservation from Rabelais to Milton 9780226797526

Inspired by Virgil’s Georgics, this study conceptualizes Renaissance poetry as a domestic labor. When is literary produc

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The Accommodated Jew: English Antisemitism from Bede to Milton 9781501706158

England during the Middle Ages was at the forefront of European antisemitism. It was in medieval Norwich that the notori

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Tragic Pleasure from Homer to Plato 1107184444, 9781107184442

This book offers a resolution of the paradox posed by the pleasure of tragedy by returning to its earliest articulations

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