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With a very serious expression, Segal responded that he had just solved a “crux” in Thucydides, meaning a textual problem that had baffled generations of scholars...
...Segal taught at the University of Pennsylvania, then at Brown University for 18 years and briefly at Princeton University before returning to Harvard...
...spent many years studying in Europe, including early education at the American School of Classical Study in Athens and two years at the American Academy in Rome. His years abroad instilled in Segal a love for the land and people of Greece and Italy and led him to develop close ties with many European colleagues, said his wife, Nancy Jones...
...Segal often adopted methods of literary criticism that were widely used in English departments but not yet practiced by classics scholars. In particular, Segal welcomed the “new criticism” of the 1940s and 1950s that read literature outside of its historical context, as well as later “structuralist” interpretations that stressed how authors developed their own internal structures within pieces of literature...
...Segal was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1992 and served as president of the American Philological Association, the national society of classical scholars, in 1994. When the Philological Association gathered for its annual meeting last week, the group’s president began his opening address with a eulogy for Segal...