1. Sophocles - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia According to the Suda, a 10th century encyclopedia, sophocles wrote 120 or more plays during the course of his life, 1 but only seven have survived in a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophocles

Sophocles From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search Sophocles Born 495 BC Colonus Hippius Died ca. 406 BC Athens Occupation Playwright, politician, general and priest This article is about the Greek tragedian. For the script-writing software, see Sophocles (software) Sophocles or Sofokles pronounced /ˈsɒfəkliːz/ ancient Greek pronounced [sopʰoklɛ̂ːs] ; circa. 496 BC - 406 BC) was the second of the three ancient Greek tragedians whose work has survived to the present day. His first plays were written later than those of Aeschylus , and earlier than those of Euripides . According to the Suda , a 10th century encyclopedia , Sophocles wrote 120 or more plays during the course of his life, but only seven have survived in a complete form, namely Ajax Antigone Trachinian Women Oedipus the King Electra Philoctetes and Oedipus at Colonus . For almost 50 years, Sophocles was the most-awarded playwright in the dramatic competitions of ancient Athens that took place during the religious festivals of the Lenaea and the Dionysia . Sophocles competed in around thirty drama competitions; he won perhaps twenty four and never received lower than second place. Aeschylus won fourteen competitions and was defeated by Sophocles at times. Euripides won only four competitions (Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.).

2. Sophocles (c. 496-406 B.C.) Biography of ancient Greek playwright sophoclesplus links to all of his works currently in print. http://www.imagi-nation.com/moonstruck/clsc1.htm

Sophocles 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. In addition to his theatrical duties, Sophocles served for many years as an ordained priest in the service of two local heroesAlcon and Asclepius, the god of medicine. He also served on the Board of Generals, a committee that administered civil and military affairs in Athens, and for a time he was director of the Treasury, controlling the funds of the association of states known as the Delian Confederacy.

3. Sophocles And His Tragedies Biography of ancient Greek dramatist sophocles and analysis of his poetic qualities. http://www.theatrehistory.com/ancient/sophocles001.html

SOPHOCLES AND HIS TRAGEDIES This document was originally published in The Drama: Its History, Literature and Influence on Civilization, vol. 1 . ed. Alfred Bates. London: Historical Publishing Company, 1906. pp. 106-112. Purchase Books by Sophocles Colonus, a village near Athens, was the place of Sophocles' birth, and the date, 495 B.C., thus making him thirty years younger than Aeschylus and fifteen years older than Euripides In his younger days he appears to have been somewhat over fond of women and wine, and this he himself admits in one of his sayings recorded by Plato: "I thank old age for delivering me from the tyranny of my appetites." Yet, even in his later years, the charms of the gentler sex were at times too strong for the great dramatist. Aristophanes accused him of avarice, though there is nothing in what is known of Sophocles to substantiate the charge, and this is further disproved by the utter neglect of his affairs, which brought on him the imputation of lunacy, refuted by reading to his judges a passage from a newly-written play. The occasional excesses referred to appear to have been the only blemish on an otherwise blameless and contented life. Dramatic Career For more than sixty years after this event Sophocles continued to compose and exhibit tragedies and satyric dramas. Of the one hundred and eighty plays ascribed to him, probably seventeen were spurious, and the number of his first prizes is variously stated at from eighteen to twenty-four, with many second prizes, so that in this respect he left both Aeschylus and Euripides far behind. So far from being dulled with age and toil, his powers seem only to have assumed a mellower tone, a more touching pathos, a sweeter and gentler mode of thought and expression.

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5. Sophocles - About The Greek Playwright Sophocles sophocles was the second of the three great Greek writers of tragedy (with Aeschylus and Euripides). He is known for writing about Oedipus, the mythological http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/sophocles/p/Sophocles.htm

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6. Sophocles A biography of the Greek dramatist sophocles and list of related links. http://www.theatredatabase.com/ancient/sophocles_001.html

Home Ancient Theatre Medieval Theatre 16th Century ... 20th Century SOPHOCLES (C. 497 - 406 B.C.) The following biography was originally published in The Tragic Drama of the Greeks . A.E. Haigh. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1896. pp. 126-37. SOPHOCLES was born in the autumn of 497 [B.C.], twenty-eight years after Aeschylus . His father Sophillus, though not of aristocratic descent, was a rich man, his wealth being derived from the ownership of slaves employed in various manufactures. The deme to which the family belonged was Colonus, a village to the north-west of Athens, and about a mile distant from the city. It was here that Sophocles passed his boyhood; and the affection with which he always continued to regard his early home finds beautiful expression in the Oedipus Coloneus the latest of his tragedies, in which he dwells with tender recollection upon the charms of that "white Colonus," where the nightingale ever sings in the green glades amid the ivy and the vine, where the narcissus and the golden crocus bloom, and where the sleepless fountains of Cephisus wander over the swelling bosom of the land. He was educated with great care, according to the old Greek system, in which music, dancing, and gymnastics training played an important part. His instructor was Lamprus, a celebrated musician of the period, and a supporter of the antique and dignified style of music, as opposed to the more florid manner which was then being introduced. In these various exercises Sophocles displayed his pre-eminence from the very first; and the beauty of his form and his skill in dancing and in music were so conspicuous, that when, after the defeat of the Persians, a chorus of boys was chosen to sing a paean round the trophy of victory, he was selected to lead the chorus, and to play the accompaniment on the harp.

7. Sophocles - Biography And Works sophocles. Biography of sophocles and a searchable collection of works. http://www.online-literature.com/sophocles/

The Literature Network Authors: 260 Books: 2,327 Forum Members: 44,745 Forum Posts: 513,581 Subscribe Teacher Accounts with student management and more. Home Authors Shakespeare Bible ... Sophocles Sophocles addthis_pub = 'ChrisWebPub'; Search all of Sophocles Advanced Search Sophocles (495-405 B.C) was one of the great playwrights of the golden age of Greek Drama. The son of a wealthy merchant, he enjoyed 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, in 468 B.C, Sophocles took first prize, defeating none other than Aeschylus himself. More than 120 plays were to follow. He would go on to win eighteen first prizes. An accomplished actor, Sophocles performed in many of his own plays. However, his voice was comparatively weak, and eventually he would give up his acting career to pursue other ventures. In addition to his theatrical duties, Sophocles served for many years as an ordained priest of Alcon and Asclepius, the god of medicine. He also served on the Board of Generals, a committee that administered civil and military affairs in Athens, and for a time he was director of the Treasury, controlling the funds of the association of states known as the Delian Confederacy.

8. Great Books Index - Sophocles sophocles Great Books Index. Study Guide for sophocles Antigone (Temple) Discusses four plays by sophocles Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, http://books.mirror.org/gb.sophocles.html

GREAT BOOKS INDEX Sophocles (495406 BC) An Index to Online Great Books in English Translation AUTHORS/HOME TITLES ABOUT GB INDEX BOOK LINKS Plays by Sophocles Oedipus Rex Oedipus at Colonus Antigone Ajax ... Articles Oedipus Rex (Oedipus the King, Oedipus Tyrannus) (about 429425 BC) HTML edition in one document (Myatt, 140KB) A new translation by D.W. Myatt. HTML edition in small sections (Perseus, Tufts) Translated by R.C. Jebb. Greek text also available. HTML edition in one document (90KB, InterGO) Translated by F. Storr. HTML pages (Michigan) HTML edition in one document (Maryland, 80KB) Translated by F. Storr. Text file (gopher, Minnesota) The three Oedipus plays, translated by F. Storr. Oedipus the King is in two parts. Text of the Oedipus plays in one file (ftp, Gutenberg at Illinois, 240KB) Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone combined in one file. Translated by F. Storr. Text of the Oedipus plays in one file (Adelaide, 220KB) Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone combined in one file. Translated by F. Storr. HTML edition in one document (Virginia, 120KB)

9. Perseus Encyclopedia The Life of sophocles informs us that he was born in the second year of the 71st 13.103.4 reports that sophocles died in 406/5, at the age of ninety. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0004:id=soph

10. Sophocles Quotes - The Quotations Page sophocles; One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life That word is love. sophocles, Ajax; Men of ill judgment oft ignore the good http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Sophocles

Quotation Search by keyword or author: Home Weblog Quotes of the Day Motivational ... Read books online at our other site: The Literature Page Quotations by Author Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC) Greek tragic dramatist [more author details] Showing quotations 1 to 30 of 37 total A short saying oft contains much wisdom. Sophocles - More quotations on: [ Quotations Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away. Sophocles - More quotations on: [ Ignorance Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another. Sophocles One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love. Sophocles - More quotations on: [ Love The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities. Sophocles What you cannot enforce, do not command. Sophocles No man loves life like him that's growing old. Sophocles Acrisius To him who is in fear everything rustles. Sophocles Acrisius It is not righteousness to outrage A brave man dead, not even though you hate him. Sophocles Ajax Men of ill judgment oft ignore the good That lies within their hands, till they have lost it.

11. The Classics Pages - Sophocles The main source for sophocles the Man is the ancient Life of sophocles existing as sort of preface to his plays. Here are some gems - although the Life http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~loxias/sophocles.htm

sophocles sophocles the man The main source for Sophocles the Man is the ancient "Life of Sophocles" - existing as sort of preface to his plays. Here are some gems - although the Life quotes some sources, without any other means of checking up on them some of this material should possibly be taken with a grain of salt. His father Sophilos was believed by some to have been a carpenter or smith or a sword - maker. Most probably, though, he owned an "armaments business" which employed carpenters and smiths. The Life thinks it improbable that Sophocles could have become a general and friend of Pericles if his father had been a mere workman (so much for Athenian democracy!) - also he'd have been pilloried in comedy (as Euripides was for supposedly having a greengrocer as a mother) - and Sophocles is always mentioned by Aristophanes with greatest respect. He was an Athenian, from the deme (village community) of Colonus - where his last play is set. Check the ode to the place in Oedipus at Colonus line 668ff. His family was well off (as you'd expect if the father was an industrialist). As a boy he won prizes for wrestling and music - and as a 16 year old, was chosen to lead the boys' chorus (singing and dancing) which celebrated the Athenian victory over the Persians at the Battle of Salamis (480 BC). [Supposedly Euripides was born on the same day, while Aeschylus had of course fought in the battle - this is a neat way to remember the age gap between the three great tragedians.] The Life says the boys were naked and shiny with oil - presumably young Sophocles would not have been chosen for this unless he was exceptionally good-looking!

12. Sophocles Collection At Bartleby.com Includes brief biography, quotations, and etexts of Antigone and Oedipus Rex. http://www.bartleby.com/people/Sophocle.html

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13. The Glory That Was Greece When he returned to Athens for the festival in 468 BCE, a twentyeight year old named sophocles, competing for the first time, won first place over the http://www.watson.org/~leigh/drama.html

An online resource for students by Leigh T. Denault HOME DRAMA HISTORY MYTHOLOGY ... BIBLIOGRAPHY Drama: The Greek Theatre and Three Athenian Tragedians: Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides Table of Contents: The Book of the Ancient Greeks, Chapter XIV: The Greek Theatre Aeschylus Sophocles Euripides Note: For English Translations of the Greek Dramas mentioned in this page, see the Online Books site for Classical Languages and Literature. The Book of the Ancient Greeks, Chapter XIV: The Greek Theatre Selections from: Mills, Dorothy. The Book of the Ancient Greeks: An Introduction to the History and Civilization of Greece from the Coming of the Greeks to the Conquest of Corinth by Rome in 146 B.C The Greek drama began as a religious observance in honour of Dionysus. To the Greeks this god personified both spring and the vintage, the latter a very important time of year in a vine-growing country, and he was a symbol to them of that power there is in man of rising out of himself, of being impelled onwards by a joy within him that he cannot explain, but which makes him go forward, walking, as it were, on the wings of the wind, of the spirit that fills him with a deep sense of worship. We call this power enthusiasm , a Greek word which simply means

14. Sophocles - History For Kids! Aeschylus is the first playwright whose plays survive, but sophocles (ca. 496406 BC) is the second. sophocles lived at the same time as Aeschylus, http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/greeks/literature/sophocles.htm

Sophocles for Kids Sophocles Aeschylus is the first playwright whose plays survive, but Sophocles (ca. 496-406 BC ) is the second. Sophocles lived at the same time as Aeschylus, but he was younger and he lived longer. He died at the age of about 100, right before the end of the Peloponnesian War Sophocles came from a rich family that lived in Colonus, a small town near Athens . His father, Sophillus, sent Sophocles to school in Athens, where he got a good education When Sophocles was six years old, the Athenians beat the Persians at Marathon . When he was sixteen, the Athenians beat the Persians at Salamis . Sophocles did not fight, but he saw his house and all of Athens , including the Parthenon , burned by the Persians before the Athenians beat them. As an adult, Sophocles was active in Athenian politics , and worked alongside Pericles. He knew Herodotus and Thucydides as well as Aeschylus and the younger playwright Euripides Socrates was only a little younger than Sophocles. He watched the construction of the new Parthenon Sophocles' plays are generally very optimistic, full of the spirit of Athens in the

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16. Sophocles -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia Britannica online encyclopedia article on sophocles with Aeschylus and Euripides, one of classical Athens three great tragic playwrights. http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9109862/Sophocles

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17. GradeSaver: ClassicNote: Biography Of Sophocles The Greek playwright sophocles was born in 496 BC at Colonus, near Athens. Unlike his younger contemporary, the oftenmisunderstood Euripides, sophocles had http://www.gradesaver.com/classicnotes/authors/about_sophocles.html

My Account Home Free Online Study Guides Best Editing Anywhere Getting you the grade since 1999. Study Guides Editing Services ... Help Search: Biography of Sophocles (496 BC-406 BC) Sophocles The Greek playwright Sophocles was born in 496 BC at Colonus, near Athens. Unlike his younger contemporary, the often-misunderstood Euripides, Sophocles had the fortune of being revered for his genius during his own lifetime. He lived to the age of ninety, and his life coincided with the great golden age of the city-state of Athens. Sophocles came from a stable, well-to-do family, and from the beginning it seemed that he was blessed in every way. Handsome, wealthy, and well-educated, Sophocles lived and died as one of Athens' most beloved citizens. In 468 BC, his debut dramatic production took first prize at the festival of Dionysis - no small feat for a beginner in his twenties, especially considering that among his competitors was the great Aeschylus. By 450 BC, Sophocles had written some two dozen plays. He was the most prolific of the three great Greek tragedians, writing 120 plays over the span of his remarkable career. Only seven complete plays survive. He received the prize at the Dionysia a total of 24 times - more than Aeschylus or Euripides - and in the years that he competed and did not win, he took second place. Since playwrights produced trilogies for the Dionysia, this impressive record means that 72 of Sophocles' plays were first-place winners. Sophocles' most famous plays are the Theban plays, also known as

18. The Dramas Of Sophocles sophocles was born about 495 B.C.E. Along with Aeschylus and Euripides he was one of the three most prominent ancient Greek tragedians. http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/soph/index.htm

Topics Home Catalog African Age of Reason ... Aeschylus Sophocles Euripides Plato Virgil Ovid ... Classics The Dramas of Sophocles Sophocles was born about 495 B.C.E. Along with Aeschylus and Euripides he was one of the three most prominent ancient Greek tragedians. He wrote over a hundred plays, of which only seven still survive. The most famous of these are the 'Theban' or 'Oedipus' cycle. He died in 406 B.C.E. The Oedipus Cycle Antigone translated by R. C. Jebb Oedipus the King ( Oedipus Rex translated by F. Storr Oedipus at Colonus translated by F. Storr Other Plays Ajax translated by R. C. Trevelyan Electra translated by R. C. Jebb Philoctetes translated by Thomas Francklin The Trachiniae translated by R. C. Jebb Sign up for sacred-texts updates by email Enter your Email Preview Powered by FeedBlitz search powered by sacred-texts Web Sponsored Links Books are selected by Amazon.com and are not necessarily endorsed by this site This is a quiet place in cyberspace devoted to religious tolerance and scholarship Non-public domain contents of this site See Terms of Service for more information.

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20. The Internet Classics Archive | Works By Sophocles List of works by sophocles, part of the Internet Classics Archive. http://classics.mit.edu/Browse/browse-Sophocles.html

Home Search Buy Books and CD-ROMs ... Help Works by Sophocles Ajax Written 440 B.C.E Translated by R. C. Trevelyan Read discussion : 16 comments Antigone Written 442 B.C.E Translated by R. C. Jebb Read discussion : 792 comments Electra Written 410 B.C.E Translated by R. C. Jebb Read discussion : 26 comments Oedipus at Colonus Translated by F. Storr Read discussion : 4 comments Oedipus the King Translated by F. Storr Read discussion : 62 comments Philoctetes Written 409 B.C.E Translated by Thomas Francklin Read discussion : 28 comments The Trachiniae Written 430 B.C.E Translated by R. C. Jebb Read discussion : 2 comments

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