# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/charles-segal
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:09:38.931Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/charles-segal"
name: "Charles Segal"
slug: "charles-segal"
description: "Charles Paul Segal was an American classicist renowned for his application of critical theory to ancient texts. 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."
tagline: "American classical philologist (1936–2002)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1936-03-19"
deathDate: "2002-01-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.89
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.674298666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Segal"
    title: "Charles Segal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%D8%B2_%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%BA%D8%A7%D9%84"
    title: "تشارلز سيغال"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%D8%B2_%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%84"
    title: "تشارلز سيجال"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Segal"
    title: "Charles Segal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Segal_(classicist)"
    title: "Charles Segal (classicist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Segal"
    title: "Charles Segal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1066038"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump