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Sophocles' Tragic World: Divinity, Nature, Society by Charles Segal, 1998-01-13 The Theban Plays (also known as The Oedipus Trilogy) (Dodo Press) by Sophocles, 2009-05-22 Philoctetes by Sophocles, 2010-05-23 Sophocles: The Theban Plays: Antigone/King Oidipous/Oidipous at Colonus (Classical Library) by Sophocles, 2002-12 Sophocles II: Ajax/ Women of Trachis/ Electra and Philoctetes by David; Lattimore, Richmond Sophocles; Grene, 1959 The Complete Sophocles: Volume I: The Theban Plays (Greek Tragedy in New Translations) The Theban Plays of Sophocles (The Yale New Classics Series) by Sophocles, 2009-10-27 Sophocles: Fragments (Loeb Classical Library No. 483) by Sophocles, 1996-07-15 Sophocles, Volume II. Antigone. The Women of Trachis. Philoctetes. Oedipus at Colonus (Loeb Classical Library No. 21) by Sophocles, 1994-01-01 Sophocles: Electra (Duckworth Companions to Greek & Roman Tragedy) by Michael Lloyd, 2005-06-30 The Cure at Troy: A Version of Sophocles' Philoctetes by Seamus Heaney, 1991-12-04 The Theban Plays: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone (Thrift Edition) by Sophocles, 2006-06-23 The Oedipus Plays of Sophocles (Mentor Classic MQ807) by Sophocles; (Translated By Paul Roche), 1958 Oedipus Tyrannus: A New Translation. Passages from Ancient Authors. Religion and Psychology: Some Studies. Criticism by Sophocles, 1970-07-17

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41. Oedipus Trilogy By Sophocles - Project Gutenberg
    Download the free eBook Oedipus Trilogy by sophocles.  
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    Extractions: Online Book Catalog Quick Search Author: Title Word(s): EText-No.: Advanced Search Recent Books Top 100 Offline Catalogs ... Main Page Project Gutenberg needs your donation! More Info Did you know that you can help us produce ebooks by proof-reading just one page a day? Go to: Distributed Proofreaders Help Read online Bibliographic Record Creator Sophocles, 495? BC-406 BC Translator Storr, Francis, 1839-1919 Title Oedipus Trilogy Note Three Greek plays Contents Oedipus The King Contents Oedipus at Colonus Contents Antigone Language English LoC Class PA: Language and Literatures: Classical Languages and Literature Subject Classics Subject Drama EText-No. Release Date Base Directory /files/31/ Formats Available For Download Format Encoding ¹ Compression Size Download Links Plucker none unknown main site HTML none 242 KB main site mirror sites HTML zip 93 KB main site mirror sites Plain text us-ascii none 235 KB main site mirror sites Plain text us-ascii zip 92 KB main site mirror sites ¹ If you need a special character set, try our online recoding service

42. Sophocles. 1909–14. Antigone. Vol. 8, Part 6. The Harvard Classics
    sophocles. 1909–14. Antigone. Vol. 8, Part 6. The Harvard Classics.  
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    Extractions: Select Search All Bartleby.com All Reference Columbia Encyclopedia World History Encyclopedia Cultural Literacy World Factbook Columbia Gazetteer American Heritage Coll. Dictionary Roget's Thesauri Roget's II: Thesaurus Roget's Int'l Thesaurus Quotations Bartlett's Quotations Columbia Quotations Simpson's Quotations Respectfully Quoted English Usage Modern Usage American English Fowler's King's English Strunk's Style Mencken's Language Cambridge History The King James Bible Oxford Shakespeare Gray's Anatomy Farmer's Cookbook Post's Etiquette Bulfinch's Mythology Frazer's Golden Bough All Verse Anthologies Dickinson, E. Eliot, T.S. Frost, R. Hopkins, G.M. Keats, J. Lawrence, D.H. Masters, E.L. Sandburg, C. Sassoon, S. Whitman, W. Wordsworth, W. Yeats, W.B. All Nonfiction Harvard Classics American Essays Einstein's Relativity Grant, U.S. Roosevelt, T. Wells's History Presidential Inaugurals All Fiction Shelf of Fiction Ghost Stories Short Stories Shaw, G.B. Stein, G. Stevenson, R.L. Wells, H.G. Fiction Harvard Classics Sophocles Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted. Frag. 842

43. Sophocles: A Mythic Life
    The facts of sophocles life are difficult to separate from legend. According to one version of his death, the ninetyyear-old dramatist was giving a public  
    http://www.amrep.org/past/antigone/antigone3.html
    
    Extractions: Where to? Season 2007-08 ART Home ARTblog ARTicles bookstore box office calendar contact us connections directions employment institute links we like loeb drama ctr media guide mission/history parking people posters restaurants search site guide zero arrow Ticket Services * exchange * group sales * student pass * subscriptions Support the ART ART Home by Helen Shaw The facts of Sophocles' life are difficult to separate from legend. According to one version of his death, the ninety-year-old dramatist was giving a public reading of Antigone when he tried and failed to recite a fatally long sentence in a single breath. Similar myths surround the final moments of the other Athenian playwrights; Euripides was eaten by a pack of wild dogs, and Aeschylus was killed by a falling turtle, dropped by an eagle who mistook the tragedian's bald head for a rock. But of the three, Sophocles lived most fully in the public eye, and more details of his biography were recorded than of almost any other figure in Periclean Athens. Born in about 496 BC to a wealthy factory-owner in the Athenian suburb of Colonus, Sophocles encountered fame at an early age. At fifteen he led an official dance to celebrate the Athenian victory at the battle of Salamis, wearing nothing but a pair of sandals and playing a lyre. Boys chosen for this role were picked according to criteria of both talent and physical beauty, so the young Sophocles must have been an attractive youth.

44. Diotima
    sophocles Antigone. Translated with Introduction and Notes Wm. Blake Tyrrell and Larry J. Bennett. Copyright © 1996. All rights reserved.  
    http://www.stoa.org/diotima/anthology/ant/
    
    Extractions: Sophocles' Antigone We wish to thank Patricia Lunn, Mary Grace Hanson, Vicki Pinckney and Jim McNitt for reading and criticizing earlier forms of our translation. Permission is hereby granted to distribute for classroom use, provided that Larry J. Bennett, Wm. Blake Tyrrell, and Diotima are identified in any such use. Other uses not authorized in writing by the translator or in accord with fair use policy are expressly prohibited. Begin www.stoa.org/diotima

45. Sophocles (c. 495-406 B.C.)
    A biography of the Greek dramatist sophocles; includes a list of related links.  
    http://www.usefultrivia.com/biographies/sophocles_001.html
    
    Extractions: SOPHOCLES The long life of the second greatest dramatist of Athens extends over the whole period of her glory, and ends just before her great collapse. He saw the Persian wars and the Peloponnesian wars, the whole career of Themistocles, Cimon, Pericles, and Nicias, the rise and perfection of all the arts of poetry and form, and all the great Athenians between Aristides and Plato. trilogy , he was able to make each drama a highly complex and refined study of character in action. Hence, by his contemporaries at Athens, and, perhaps, by the ancients, Sophocles was regarded as the perfection of the tragic poet. Oedipus the King was taken by Aristotle as the type of true tragedy. And other critics have called it "the masterpiece of Attic tragedy." As a work of consummate art, it is perhaps the most perfect tragedy extant. In the same way, all the seven plays of Sophocles which survive are examples of supreme skill in painting character, and in the combination of tragic situations. But the poet is no longer, as in the Trilogy, hero, prophet, and preacher; he is simply the faultless artist.

46. Oedipus Trilogy By Sophocles
    Complete chapterindexed hypertext and e-text from Literature Project.  
    http://www.literatureproject.com/oedipus/index.htm

47. Sophocles' Antigone
    sophocles, like Aeschylus and Euripides, made a virtue of the necessity of this convention of the ancient theater by writing elaborate messenger speeches  
    http://depthome.brooklyn.cuny.edu/classics/dunkle/studyguide/antigone.htm
    
    Extractions: Brooklyn College Core Curriculum Series The setting of the Antigone , as in the case of most Greek tragedies, does not require a change of scene. Throughout the play the skene with at least one door represents the facade of the royal palace of Thebes. Even when the poet shifts the audience's attention to events in the plain and the cave in which Antigone was entombed, there is no shift of scene. These events are reported by minor characters (here, a guard and a character specifically called a messenger) rather than enacted before the audience (245-277;1192-1243). Interior action is also reported by a messenger to characters on-stage for the benefit of the audience. The suicide of Eurydice, which takes place inside the palace, is reported to Creon (and to the audience) by a second messenger (1279-1318). The messenger speech eliminates the need for scene changes, which, due to the limited resources of the ancient theater, would have been difficult and awkward. Sophocles, like Aeschylus and Euripides, made a virtue of the necessity of this convention of the ancient theater by writing elaborate messenger speeches which provide a vivid word picture of the offstage action. The numbers are references to lines in the Antigone . All quotations from the Antigone are translated by the author. During the report of this messenger the body of Eurydice probably was displayed on the

48. Works By Sophocles
    Read classic literature by sophocles at 4literature.net.  
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49. Sophocles - LoveToKnow 1911
    sophocles (4954 06 B.C.), Greek tragic poet, was born at Colonus in the neighbourhood of Athens. His father s name was Sophillus; and the family  
    http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Sophocles
    
    Extractions: SOPHOCLES (495-4 06 B.C.), Greek tragic poet, was born at Colonus in the neighbourhood of Athens . His father's name was Sophillus; and the family burial -place is said to have been about a mile and a half from the city on the Decelean Way. The date assigned for the poet's birth is in accordance with the tale that young Sophocles, then a pupil of the musician Lamprus, was chosen to lead the chorus of boys in the celebration of the victory of Salamis (480(480 B.C.). The time of his death is fixed by the allusions to it in the Frogs of Aristophanes and in the Muses, a lost play of Phrynichus , the comic poet, which were both produced in 405 B.C., shortly before the capture of Athens. And the legend which implies that Lysander allowed him funeral honours is one of those which, like the story of Alexander and Pindar's house at Thebes , we can at least wish to be founded on fact, though we should probably substitute Agis for Lysander. Apart from tragic victories, the event of Sophocles' life most fully authenticated is his appointment at the age of fifty-five as one of the generals who served with Pericles in the Samian War (440-439 B.C.). Conjecture has been rife as to the possibility of his here improving acquaintance with

50. Sophocles Quotes
    Collection of quotations for the category sophocles Quotes.  
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51. Sophocles - Books And Biography
    Read sophocles s literature for FREE at Read Print.  
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    Extractions: To read literature by Sophocles, select from the list on the left. Sophocles (495-405 B.C) . Born in 495 B.C. about a mile northwest of Athens, Sophocles was to become one of the great playwrights of the golden age. The son of a wealthy merchant, he would enjoy all the comforts of a thriving Greek empire. He studied all of the arts. By the age of sixteen, he was already known for his beauty and grace and was chosen to lead a choir of boys at a celebration of the victory of Salamis. Twelve years later, his studies complete, he was ready to compete in the City Dionysiaa festival held every year at the Theatre of Dionysus in which new plays were presented. In his first competition, Sophocles took first prizedefeating none other than Aeschylus himself. More than 120 plays were to follow. He would go on to win eighteen first prizes, and he would never fail to take at least second. An accomplished actor, Sophocles performed in many of his own plays. In the Nausicaa or The Women Washing Clothes , he performed a juggling act that so fascinated his audience it was the talk of Athens for many years. However, the young athenian's voice was comparatively weak, and eventually he would give up his acting career to pursue other ventures.

52. Sophocles
    sophocles (496406 BC) introduced a third actor. Euripides (c. 480-406 BC) is another well-known ancient Greek tragedian. The plays became very popular as  
    http://fajardo-acosta.com/worldlit/sophocles/
    
    Extractions: CREDITS Sophocles (496-406 BC) Biographical Information Main Works Featured Works: Oedipus the King Antigone Contexts Selected Quotations ... Links Biographical Information Ancient Greek dramatist, born at Colonus (near Athens), 496 BC, died 406 BC; best known for his tragedy Oedipus Rex Oedipus the King

53. Island Of Freedom - Sophocles
    The career of sophocles, one of the three great tragic dramatists of ancient Greece, the other two being Aeschylus and Euripides, spanned the period of  
    http://www.island-of-freedom.com/SOPHOCLE.HTM
    
    Extractions: The career of Sophocles, one of the three great tragic dramatists of ancient Greece, the other two being Aeschylus and Euripides, spanned the period of greatest political and cultural achievement in Athens. According to tradition, Sophocles wrote 123 plays and won 24 victories in the city's annual dramatic contests. Of these, only seven tragedies are preserved in full, but they are sufficient to reveal the playwright's genius. Sophocles' tragedies are usually regarded as the high point of Attic drama.

54. Ancient History Sourcebook: Sophocles: Antigone, Excerpts
    Antigone, by the great tragic poet sophocles, is about conflicting duties. The heroine Antigone has defied her uncle Creon s edict and buried her rebellious  
    http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/sophocles-antigone.html
    
    Extractions: Sophocles: Antigone , excerpts Back to top. As the seer Teiresias warns Creon of the consequences of his inflexibility, the ruler relents, but it's too late. Source: Sophocles, Antigone This text is part of the Internet Ancient History Sourcebook . The Sourcebook is a collection of public domain and copy-permitted texts related to medieval and Byzantine history. See See How to Cite these pages in books, term papers, etc. © Paul Halsall, August 2000

55. Sophocles Quotes
    A collection of quotes from the plays of sophocles.  
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    Extractions: SOPHOCLES QUOTES Unwanted favours gain no gratitude. SOPHOCLES, Oedipus at Colonus I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State; and as for the man who sets private friendship above the public welfare I have no use for him either. SOPHOCLES, Antigone The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves. SOPHOCLES, Oedipus Rex What people believe prevails over the truth. SOPHOCLES, The Sons of Aleus [fragment] Each one of us must live the life God gives him; it cannot be shirked. SOPHOCLES, Philoctetes The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown. Nothing is impossible. SOPHOCLES, Ajax Nothing abides; the starry night, our wealth, our sorrows, pass away. SOPHOCLES, Women of Trachis A man is nothing but breath and shadow. SOPHOCLES, Ajax the Locrian [fragment] Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver. SOPHOCLES

56. Biography
    One can only wonder how sophocles would rank if all of his plays had survived. sophocles was born a mile northwest of Athens in the deme (township) of  
    http://www.cummingsstudyguides.net/sophbiography.html
    
    Extractions: Although Sophocles died more than twenty-four centuries ago, he continues to live today in his plays as one of history's greatest writers. Only seven of his one hundred twenty-three dramas survive intact, but they are enough to prompt his admirers to regard him as the equal of Shakespeare , or nearly so. One can only wonder how Sophocles would rank if all of his plays had survived. Sophocles was born a mile northwest of Athens in the deme (township) of Colonus between 497 and 495 B.C. Because his father, Sophillus, shared in the profits of a successful family weapons and armor manufactory, Sophocles was a child of advantage, enjoying the comforts of the privileged and receiving an education that undergirded his natural talents. He studied poetry, dance, philosophy, mathematics, astronomy, law, athletics, and military tactics. He also studied music and became accomplished at playing the cithara, a stringed instrument resembling the lyre of the harp family.

57. Harvard University Press: Sophocles, I, Ajax. Electra. Oedipus Tyrannus By Sopho
    sophocles, I, Ajax. Electra. Oedipus Tyrannus by sophocles, published by Harvard University Press.  
    http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/L020.html
    
    Extractions: BCE Hugh Lloyd-Jones gives us, in two volumes, a new translation of the seven surviving plays. Volume I contains Oedipus Tyrannus (which tells the famous Oedipus story), Ajax (a heroic tragedy of wounded self-esteem), and Electra (the story of siblings who seek revenge on their mother and her lover for killing their father). Volume II contains Oedipus at Colonus (the climax of the fallen hero's life), Antigone (a conflict between public authority and an individual woman's conscience), The Women of Trachis (a fatal attempt by Heracles' wife to regain her husband's love), and Philoctetes (Odysseus's intrigue to bring an unwilling hero to the Trojan War). The Searchers Emeritus Regius Professor of Greek, Oxford Hugh Lloyd-Jones was knighted in 1989. Sophocles, II, Antigone. The Women of Trachis. Philoctetes. Oedipus at Colonus Sophocles, III, Fragments Sophocles, II, Antigone. The Women of Trachis. Philoctetes. Oedipus at Colonus

58. New Page 2
    The translator would like to acknowledge the extremely valuable help provided by Andrew Brown’s edition of sophocles’ Antigone (Aris Philips, 1987),  
    http://www.mala.bc.ca/~johnstoi/sophocles/antigone.htm
    
    Extractions: 442 BC Translator's Note . For comments or question please contact Ian Johnston This translation is available in the form of a published paperback book from Richer Resources Publications This text is available in the form of a Publisher file for those who would like to print it off as a small book. There is no charge for these files. For details, please use the following link: Publisher files The translator would like to acknowledge the extremely valuable help provided by Andrew Brown’s edition of Sophocles’ Antigone Note that in this translation the numbers in square brackets refer to the Greek text, and the numbers with no brackets refer to this text. The asterisks in the text are links to explanatory notes at the end. This text was last revised in May 2005. Background Note to the Story When Oedipus, King of Thebes, discovered through his own investigations that he had killed his father and married his mother, Jocasta, he put out his own eyes, and Jocasta killed herself. Once Oedipus ceased being king of Thebes, his two sons, Polyneices and Eteocles, agreed to alternate as king. When Eteocles refused to give up power to Polyneices, the latter collected a foreign army of Argives and attacked the city. In the ensuing battle, the Thebans triumphed over the invading forces, and the two brothers killed each other, with Eteocles defending the city and Polyneices attacking it. The action of the play begins immediately after the battle. Note that Creon is a brother of Jocasta and thus an uncle of Antigone, Ismene, Eteocles, and Polyneices.

59. Drama Authors In Depth - Sophocles - Meyer Literature
    sophocles lived a long, productive life (496?–406 b.c.) in Athens. During his life Athens became a dominant political and cultural power after the Persian  
    http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/literature/bedlit/authors_depth/sophocles.htm
    
    Extractions: Biography Chronology Biography (C. 496-406 B.C.) Image of Sophocles. Reproduced by permission of CORBIS/Bettmann. Oedipus the King Oedipus at Colonus , and Antigone Philoctetes Ajax Maidens of Trachis , and Electra His plays won numerous prizes at festival competitions because of his careful, subtle plotting and the sense of inevitability with which their action is charged. Moreover, his development of character is richly complex. Instead of relying on the extreme situations and exaggerated actions that earlier tragedians used, Sophocles created powerfully motivated characters who even today fascinate audiences with their psychological depth. Oedipus the King , which, it has been argued, is the most influential drama ever written. Chronology c. 496 B.C. Born at Colonus. Athenian victory over the Persians at Salamis. (Sophocles participates as a musician in the victory celebration.). Serves as one of the treasurers of the league against Persia.

60. Antigone - Sophocles
    Read Antigone, by sophocles. sophocles. ANTIGONE. Translation by F. Storr, BA Formerly Scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge  
    http://classiclit.about.com/library/bl-etexts/sophocles/bl-soph-ant.htm
    
    Extractions: William Heinemann Ltd, London First published in 1912 ARGUMENT Antigone, daughter of Oedipus, the late king of Thebes, in defiance of Creon who rules in his stead, resolves to bury her brother Polyneices, slain in his attack on Thebes. She is caught in the act by Creon's watchmen and brought before the king. She justifies her action, asserting that she was bound to obey the eternal laws of right and wrong in spite of any human ordinance. Creon, unrelenting, condemns her to be immured in a rock-hewn chamber. His son Haemon, to whom Antigone is betrothed, pleads in vain for her life and threatens to die with her. Warned by the seer Teiresias Creon repents him and hurries to release Antigone from her rocky prison. But he is too late: he finds lying side by side Antigone who had hanged herself and Haemon who also has perished by his own hand. Returning to the palace he sees within the dead body of his queen who on learning of her son's death has stabbed herself to the heart.

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