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- Sophocles was very popular in his own time.
- Saying, I remember Sophocles?† (source)
- Sophocles' plays of Oedipus and his doomed clan show up over and over again in all sorts of variations.† (source)
- Plato, Sophocles, Homer, Dryden, Coleridge, Shelley, Shaw.† (source)
- This is where the great tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides were performed during the time of Socrates.† (source)
- I only performed in a few dramas, but I had one memorable role: that of Creon, the king of Thebes, in Sophocles' Antigone.† (source)
- If Polybus hadn't taken in the young Oedipus, Sophocles wouldn't have written his most beautiful tragedy!† (source)
- 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)
- This one advertised itself with names carved in the granite frieze above its broad front: HOMER, HERODOTUS, SOPHOCLES, PLATO, ARISTOTLE, DEMOSTHENES, CICERO, VERGIL.† (source)
- The tragedy about him, by Sophocles, was first performed here.† (source)
- She's named for the great tragic character from Sophocles' drama Oedipus the King (ca.† (source)
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- Quite lucky for Sophocles, if catastrophic for poor Oedipus.† (source)
- Two and a half millennia ago Sophocles wrote a little play called Oedipus Rex.† (source)
- And of course divine wrath is the order of the day at the beginning of Sophocles' play.† (source)
- Does Sophocles actually say any of these things?† (source)
- It was a translation of Sophocles'Oedipus.† (source)
- It was apparently with this in mind that he picked up a translation of Sophocles'Oedipus.† (source)
- She walked over to the bookshelves and took down Sophocles'Oedipus.† (source)
- Besides, how many engineers read Sophocles?† (source)
- Sophocles uses the heart to mean the center of emotion within the body, as do Dante, Shakespeare, Donne, Marvell, Hallmark …. all the great writers.† (source)
- Now neither Camus's nor Sophocles' use is particularly subtle or hard to get, but in their overt way they teach us how other writers may use illness when it is less central.† (source)
- You see, Sophocles is writing this not only at the end of his life but at the end of the fifth century B.c., which is to say at the end of the period of Athenian greatness.† (source)
- In Oedipus Rex Sophocles has Thebes hit by various plagues—withered crops, stillborn children, the works—but here as in general use, plague carries with it the implication of bubonic.† (source)
- When Sophocles is a very old man, he finally writes the middle third of his Theban trilogy of plays, Oedipus at Colonus (406 B.c.), in which the old and frail Oedipus arrives at Colonus and receives the protection of the Athenian king, Theseus.† (source)
- At the end of Sophocles' Oedipus Rex, the king blinds himself, which is very definitely a kind of marking—of atonement, guilt, and contrition—and one that he will wear throughout the subsequent play, Oedipus at Colonus.† (source)
- But call forth thundering Aeschylus, Euripides and Sophocles to us.† (source)
- 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)
- For when at last I came back to my bedroom, it looked small, untidy; and I would ride the waves of these fragmentary feelings—repeat these scraps of talk—say it all over to myself—what I said—what he said—and next morning would still be going over it as I read my Sophocles for Miss Case.† (source)
- 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)
- Left alone in the great house, father shut in his study at the top, Lizzie polishing brass stair rods, another maid doing bedrooms, Shag asleep on his mat, while Sophie, I suppose, stood at the back door taking in joints, milk, vegetables from tradespeople in their little carts, I mounted to my room; spread my Liddell and Scott upon the table, and settled down to read Plato, or to make out some scene in Euripides or Sophocles for Clara Pater, or Janet Case.† (source)
- "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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- The Roman Martius has conquered Athens—all but the invincible spirits of Sophocles, the duke of Athens, and Dorigen, his wife.† (source)
- So, 'tis well; Never one object underneath the sun Will I behold before my Sophocles: Farewell; now teach the Romans how to die.† (source)
- The beauty of the latter inflames Martius, and he seeks to save her husband; but Sophocles will not ask his life, although assured, that a word will save him, and the execution of both proceeds.† (source)
- _ Stay, Sophocles—with this, tie up my sight; Let not soft nature so transformed be, And lose her gentler sexed humanity, To make me see my lord bleed.† (source)
- In harmony with this delight in personal advantages, there is in their plays a certain heroic cast of character and dialogue,—as in Bonduca, Sophocles, the Mad Lover, the Double Marriage,[314]—wherein the speaker is so earnest and cordial, and on such deep grounds of character, that the dialogue, on the slightest additional incident in the plot, rises naturally into poetry.† (source)
- …America, Old chants, Egyptian priests, and those of Ethiopia, The Hindu epics, the Grecian, Chinese, Persian, The Biblic books and prophets, and deep idyls of the Nazarene, The Iliad, Odyssey, plots, doings, wanderings of Eneas, Hesiod, Eschylus, Sophocles, Merlin, Arthur, The Cid, Roland at Roncesvalles, the Nibelungen, The troubadours, minstrels, minnesingers, skalds, Chaucer, Dante, flocks of singing birds, The Border Minstrelsy, the bye-gone ballads, feudal tales, essays, plays,…† (source)
- Euphorion was first, Sophocles second, Euripides third, with Medea t Philoctetes, Dictys, and the Harvesters, a Satyr-play.† (source)
- As for the poets, they have Aristophanes, Homer, Euripides, and Sophocles of Aldus's edition; and for historians, Thucydides, Herodotus, and Herodian.† (source)
- SOPHOCLES.† (source)
- SOPHOCLES OEDIPUS THE KING Translation by F. Storr, BA Formerly Scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge From the Loeb Library Edition Originally published by Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA and William Heinemann Ltd, London First published in 1912 ARGUMENT To Laius, King of Thebes, an oracle foretold that the child born to him by his queen Jocasta would slay his father and wed his mother.† (source)
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