Charles Paul Segal (March 19, 1936 — January 1, 2002) was an American classicist renowned for his application of critical theory to ancient texts.
[1] Although his work spanned a variety of Latin and Greek genres, he is best known for his work on Greek tragedy.
His most influential work is Tragedy and Civilization: an Interpretation of Sophocles (1981), in which he presents a structuralist approach to Greek theatre.
[2] Segal graduated from Harvard University in 1957 and, four years later, was awarded a doctorate from the same institution for a 900-page thesis on the philosopher Democritus.
There, he served as the Walter C. Klein Professor of Classics until his death in 2002.