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Sophocles
[sof-uh-kleez]
noun
495?–406? b.c., Greek dramatist.
Sophocles
/ ˈsɒfəˌkliːz, ˌsɒfəˈkliːən /
noun
?496–406 bc , Greek dramatist; author of seven extant tragedies: Ajax, Antigone, Oedipus Rex, Trachiniae, Electra, Philoctetes , and Oedipus at Colonus
Sophocles
An ancient Greek poet, author of Oedipus Rex and Antigone. He is counted, with Euripides and Aeschylus, among the great Greek authors of tragedies.
Other 51Թ Forms
- Sophoclean adjective
Example Sentences
Plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides illuminated how pride, injustice and failed leadership could threaten a community.
The Black prisoners of “The Island” turn to Sophocles’ “Antigone” to understand the injustice of their own situation.
Even Aristotle, who could be said to have launched literary criticism, set forth the precepts of tragedy by empirically studying the indelible examples of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides.
In the years that followed, Maclin immersed himself in “Jitney” by August Wilson and Sophocles’ “Oedipus Rex.”
Fish told BBC News it was a "thrilling challenge to work on Sophocles' tragedy", adding that Carson's translation "explodes the question of what is ancient and what is contemporary".
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