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Sophocles was very popular in his own time.
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Plato, Sophocles, Homer, Dryden, Coleridge, Shelley, Shaw.† (source)
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She's named for the great tragic character from Sophocles' drama Oedipus the King (ca.† (source)
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The tragedy about him, by Sophocles, was first performed here.† (source)
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Saying, I remember Sophocles?† (source)
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It was a translation of Sophocles'Oedipus.† (source)
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I only performed in a few dramas, but I had one memorable role: that of Creon, the king of Thebes, in Sophocles' Antigone.† (source)
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This one advertised itself with names carved in the granite frieze above its broad front: HOMER, HERODOTUS, SOPHOCLES, PLATO, ARISTOTLE, DEMOSTHENES, CICERO, VERGIL.† (source)
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That wisdom, which seems to have been unavailable to Chaucer, or Dante, or Catullus, or Sophocles, or Shakespeare, or Dickens, is still with us, and, in 1969 it placed an inordinate burden on African American writers.† (source)
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It would be better to breed horses and live in one of those red villas than to run in and out of the skulls of Sophocles and Euripides like a maggot, with a high-minded wife, one of those University women.† (source)
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He knew some of Ben Jonson's poems, including the fine Hymn to Diana, "Queen and huntress, chaste and fair," and the great tribute to Shakespeare which lifted his hair at "....But call forth thundering Aeschylus, Euripides and Sophocles to us.† (source)
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"Wasn't it Sophocles,' he asked, "who prayed for the time when he would be delivered from the wild beast of passion that devoured his heart-strings?'† (source)
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Meanwhile I will read, as soon as I am settled in Christminster, the books I have not been able to get hold of here: Livy, Tacitus, Herodotus, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Aristophanes—† (source)
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But I cannot admit that the class represented by Eschylus, Sophocles, Aristophanes, Euripides, Shakespear, Goethe, Ibsen, and Tolstoy, not to mention our own contemporary playwrights, is as much in place in Mr Redford's office as a pickpocket is in Bow Street.† (source)
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His mental palate, indeed, was rather pagan, and found a savouriness in a quotation from Sophocles or Theocritus that was quite absent from any text in Isaiah or Amos.† (source)
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The Roman Martius has conquered Athens—all but the invincible spirits of Sophocles, the duke of Athens, and Dorigen, his wife.† (source)
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