Sample Sentences for
Sophocles
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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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    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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    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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    Does Sophocles actually say any of these things?†  (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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    Sophocles was an imperial poet—he spoke like God among flashes of lightning: the Œdipus Rex is not only one of the greatest plays in the world, it is one of the greatest stories.†  (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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    Now, I made for Madame Marguerite of Flanders, that famous epithalamium, as you know, and the city will not pay me, under the pretext that it was not excellent; as though one could give a tragedy of Sophocles for four crowns!†  (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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    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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    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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