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Charles P. Segal ’57, a classics professor who brought contemporary techniques of literary criticism to bear on ancient Greek and Latin texts, died on Jan. 1 in Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center after a year-long battle with cancer...
Segal specialized in Greek tragedy, especially the plays of Sophocles, but he also studied the mythological works of Ovid, the epics of Virgil and Greek lyric and pastoral poetry. He maintained interests in both Greek and Latin texts and kept up active scholarship in both fields...
Born in Boston on March 19, 1936, Segal was raised in Dorchester and attended the Boston Latin School, where he received a thorough, traditional education in the Greek and Latin classics. In his day, many students from Boston Latin came to Harvard with anextensive classical background, although, like many of them, Segal wasn’t decided on the classics as his field of study. But his college years developed Segal’s interest in ancient literature...
Others, like Jennifer P. Banister of Teen Empowerment, a Roxbury-based community action group, said they were angered at the choice of the Boston Latin School for the presentation, arguing that as Boston’s top public school it is not representative of real urban youth...
...addition to the protesters, Bush also had his defenders, including Marcus Hughes, a senior at Boston Latin, who said, “We are very pleased that the president selected Latin School, because of the history as well as the talent of the students, but we would have liked to have had more students attend the event, especially the senior class...