21. 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 burial-place is said to have been http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Sophocles

Sophocles From LoveToKnow 1911 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

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Fun Trivia Quizzes Games People ... Challenge List Welcome to our world of fun trivia quizzes and quiz games: New Player Play Now! Fun Trivia Sophocles Structure Sub-topic of: Authors Q-S Quizzes Interesting Questions, Facts and Information There are a total of general entries. Special Topics Oedipus the King Oedipus "Antigone" The Oedipus Plays ... Oedipal Complexes Interesting Questions, Facts, and Information Sophocles Who was the warder that was to care for the son of Ajax and Tecmessa? Sophocles' Ajax Teucer . 'So trusty is the warder whom I will leave to guard you, even Teucer, who will not falter in his care for you....' Whose sword had Ajax taken...the same sword by which he died? Sophocles' Ajax Hector . 'For since this hand took this gift from Hector, my worst foe, to this hour I have had no good from the Greeks'. Who was the prophet that warned of certain death once Ajax left his house and went abroad? Sophocles' Ajax Calchas . 'Calchus drew apart from the Atreidae...and strictly charged' Teucer to keep 'Ajax within the house...if he wished ever to see him alive...(that) day alone (would) the wrath of divine Athena vex him'. Menelaus was the king of what region?

23. Electra Summary and analysis of the play by sophocles. http://www.theatrehistory.com/ancient/bates022.html

ELECTRA A summary and analysis of the play by Sophocles 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. 135-142. The theme of the Electra , which, with the Ajax and Philoctetes , belongs to the Trojan legend, is the same as that of the Mourning Women of Aeschylus , but with a marked difference of treatment. Electra, and not Orestes, is the chief character, and for her Sophocles claims all our sympathies. The scene is laid in front of the palace; but there is no grave of Agamemnon, as in the Aeschylean tragedy. At daybreak enter, as if from foreign lands, Pylades, Orestes and his keeper, who gives him instructions as he introduces him to the city of his fathers. Orestes replies with a speech on the injunction of Apollo and the manner in which he means to execute it, then addresses a prayer to the gods and to his father's house. Electra is heard sobbing within; Orestes wishes to greet her immediately, but is led away to present an offering at the grave of his father. Electra comes out, and in a pathetic address to heaven pours forth her griefs, and in prayer to the infernal deities her unappeased longing for revenge. "The holy light and all-surrounding air, which ere this oft have heard my cries of woe, hear me only wailing for my hapless sire, whom his own wife and her paramour smote in foul and grievous death.

24. Sophocles - Simple English Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia sophocles (497 BC, 496 BC, or 495 BC – 406 BC) was an Ancient Greek writer who wrote 123 plays. Only 7 of his tragedies have survived complete. http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophocles

Sophocles From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search A Roman bust of Sophocles Sophocles (497 BC, 496 BC, or 495 BC – 406 BC) was an Ancient Greek writer who wrote 123 plays . Only 7 of his tragedies have survived complete. Sophocles was the second of the three greatest Ancient Greek writers of tragedies , the others being Aeschylus and Euripides . The most famous of Sophocles' tragedies are those concerning (relating to, being about) Oedipus and Antigone : these are often known as the Theban plays, although each play was actually a part of different tetralogy, the other members of which are now lost. Contents Life Surviving plays Other pages References ... change Life A marble relief of a poet, perhaps Sophocles Sophocles, the son of Sophillus, was a wealthy member of the rural (having to do with to the countryside rather than the town) deme (small community) of Colonus Hippius in Attica , which would later become a setting for his plays, and was probably born there. His birth took place a few years before the Battle of Marathon in 490 BC: the exact year is unclear, although 497/6 is perhaps most likely.

25. Famous Quotes By Sophocles | Quotes Daddy sophocles largest online collection of Famous Quotes and Quotations Page 1 http://www.quotesdaddy.com/author/Sophocles

26. Ajax Summary and analysis of the play by sophocles. http://www.theatrehistory.com/ancient/bates023.html

AJAX A summary and analysis of the play by Sophocles 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. 142-151. In the tragic fate of Ajax, the bravest of all the Greeks, save only Achilles, the poet teaches that men, though excelling in strength and riches, should never boast or utter impious words against the gods. All human things A day lays low, a day lifts up again; But still the gods love those of ordered soul, And hate the evil. The play opens in the interior of his tent, where he calls on his friends to slay him: "Never yet has such shame fallen on me, that I, who ever faced the foe fearless in fight, should now have shown my prowess on these poor, harmless beasts. Well may my enemies laugh at me in their delight! Would that I might slay them, then die myself! For I, like to whom Troy has found no other hero, am stricken with dishonor! Can I go home? How can I look Telamon, my father, in the face, if I return without the victor's spoil, when he himself came back with glory's noblest crown? Shall I go alone against the Trojan walls, and there seek death in noble combat? That would but gladden the Atridæ. No; I must seek some perilous enterprise, that my show my father that I am no degenerate scion of his stock. Either noble life or death becomes the brave." In the following chorus Salaminian sailors sing of the misery that the news of Ajax insanity will cause when related in their island home:

27. Sophocles (Author Of Oedipus Rex) sophocles was an ancient Greek tragedy playwright. Not many things are known about his life. He was wealthy; well educated. He wrote about 123 plays but not many survived throughou http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1002.Sophocles

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28. Oedipus Trilogy By Sophocles. Search, Read, Study, Discuss. A searchable version of the Loeb translation. http://www.online-literature.com/sophocles/oedipus/

The Literature Network Authors: 261 Books: 2,949 Forum Members: 71,085 Forum Posts: 863,502 Subscribe Teacher Accounts with student management and more. Home Authors Shakespeare Bible ... Subscriber Login addthis_pub = 'ChrisWebPub'; Literature Network Sophocles Oedipus Trilogy Oedipus Trilogy Search all of Oedipus Trilogy Advanced Search Introductions Forum Discussions Fan of this book? Help us introduce it to others by writing a better introduction for it . It's quick and easy, click here Related Links: Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Fable - Chapter 10 Oedipus the King Summary and Author Biography Find essays on Oedipus Trilogy Quizzes on Oedipus Trilogy No quizzes available to take yet. Please submit a quiz here Recent Forum Posts on Oedipus Trilogy How does Oedipus die? No, I haven't read the trilogy (only Oedipus Rex) but I'm reading about it and find it fascinating. One thing bothers me. Is it ever explicitly stated how Oedipus dies in Colonus? It is implied that he commits suicide, correct? But how? As readers, do we get to see the act? Or are we, like the sisters, not allowed to watch him in his last moments? Are we privileged enough, like Theseus, to watch what's happening in the sacred grove? Posted By Wilde woman at Sat 7 Mar 2009, 6:16 AM

29. Oedipus Rex Synopsis of the play by sophocles. http://www.theatrehistory.com/ancient/oedipus001.html

OEDIPUS REX A synopsis of the play by Sophocles This document was originally published in Minute History of the Drama Date and circumstances of production are unknown. It is, however, known that Sophocles suffered defeat in the contests with this play, although it is generally regarded as his masterpiece. SOME twelve years before the action of the play begins, Oedipus has been made King of Thebes in gratitude for his freeing the people from the pestilence brought on them by the presence of the riddling Sphinx. Since Laius, the former king, had shortly before been killed, Oedipus has been further honored by the hand of Queen Jocasta. Now another deadly pestilence is raging and the people have come to ask Oedipus to rescue them as before. The King has anticipated their need, however. Creon, Jocasta's brother, returns at the very moment from Apollo's oracle with the announcement that all will be well if Laius' murderer be found and cast from the city. In an effort to discover the murderer, Oedipus sends for the blind seer, Tiresias. Under protest the prophet names Oedipus himself as the criminal. Oedipus, outraged at the accusation, denounces it as a plot of Creon to gain the throne. Jocasta appears just in time to avoid a battle between the two men. Seers, she assures Oedipus, are not infallible. In proof, she cites the old prophecy that her son should kill his father and have children by his mother. She prevented its fulfillment, she confesses, by abandoning their infant son in the mountains. As for Laius, he had been killed by robbers years later at the junction of three roads on the route to Delphi.

30. Sophocles - About The Greek Playwright Sophocles sophocles Greek playwright sophocles sophocles was the second of the 3 greatest Greek writers of tragedy (with Aeschylus and Euripides). http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/sophocles/p/Sophocles.htm

zWASL=1;zGRH=1 zGCID=this.zGCID?zGCID+" test11":" test11" zJs=10 zJs=11 zJs=12 zJs=13 zc(5,'jsc',zJs,9999999,'') zDO=0 Home Education Ancient / Classical History Ancient / Classical History Search Ancient History Wars Share w(x2+zWl+'?p=1" zT="18/1[N" rel="nofollow">Print') Free Ancient History Newsletter! Sign Up Discuss in my Forum Sophocles - The Second of 3 Great Greek Writers of Tragedy Sophocles By N.S. Gill , About.com Guide See More About: sophocles playwrights greek tragedy oedipus ... euripides Sophocles Clipart.com More Images zSB(3,3) Who Was Sophocles?: Sophocles was the second of the 3 greatest Greek writers of tragedy (with Aeschylus and Euripides ). He is known for writing about Oedipus , the mythological figure who proved central to Freud and the history of psychoanalysis. Sophocles lived through most of the 5th century, experiencing the Age of Pericles and the Peloponnesian War Occupation : Playwright Sophocles - Basics: Sophocles lived from c. 496-406 B.C. He grew up in the town of Colonus, just outside Athens , which was the setting of his tragedy Oedipus at Colonus . Sophocles' father Sophillus, thought to have been been a wealthy nobleman, sent his son to Athens for an education.

31. The Antigone Summary and analysis of the play by sophocles. http://www.theatrehistory.com/ancient/bates017.html

THE ANTIGONE A summary and analysis of the play by Sophocles 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. 112-123. In the Antigone contempt of death enables a weak maiden to conquer a powerful ruler, who, proud of his wisdom, ventures in his unbounded insolence to pit his royal word against divine law and human sentiment, and learns all too late, by the destruction of his house, that Fate in due course brings fit punishment on outrage. The play takes up the story of the Seven Against Thebes , by Aeschylus , but with some changes in the situation. Two brothers, Eteocles and Polynices, have fallen, as will be remembered, at one of the gates of Thebes. King Creon allows Eteocles to be buried at once, that he might receive due honor among the shades; but he orders a herald to forbid any funeral rites or burial to the corpse of Polynices. "Let him lie unwept, unburied, a toothsome morsel for the birds of heaven, and whoso touches him shall perish by the cruel death of stoning." Antigone tells these gloomy tidings to her sister Ismene, and informs her of what she has resolved to do:

32. Sophocles Biography Summary | BookRags.com sophocles summary with 82 pages of lesson plans, quotes, chapter summaries, analysis, encyclopedia entries, essays, research information, and more. http://www.bookrags.com/Sophocles

33. Oedipus Trilogy By Sophocles - Project Gutenberg Online text. http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/31

Main Page Mobile Version Search Start Page Offline Catalogs My Bookmarks ... Donate to PG Oedipus Trilogy by Sophocles Bibrec Download QR Code Twitter Bibliographic Record Author Sophocles, 495? BCE-406 BCE Translator Storr, Francis, 1839-1919 Title Oedipus Trilogy Note Three Greek plays Contents Antigone Oedipus at Colonus Oedipus The King. Language English LoC Class PA: Language and Literatures: Classical Languages and Literature Subject Classical literature Subject Tragedies Subject Antigone (Greek mythology) Drama Subject Oedipus (Greek mythology) Drama Category Text EBook-No. Release Date Mar 8, 2006 Public domain in the USA. Downloads Related Books Readers also downloaded… In Plays In Best Books Ever Listings In Harvard Classics Read This Book Online Read this ebook online... Download This eBook Available Formats Format Size Mirror Sites HTML 242 kB mirror sites EPUB 117 kB Kindle 172 kB Plucker 137 kB QiOO Mobile 152 kB Plain Text UTF-8 236 kB More Files… mirror sites QR Code If you scan this code with your mobile phone and appropriate software installed, it will open the phone browser to the mobile version of this page. Explain this Twitter (experimental) to hear about new ebooks posted at Project Gutenberg.

34. Sophocles Quotes - The Quotations Page sophocles, Acrisius It is not righteousness to outrage A brave man dead, not even though you hate him. 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.

35. Sophocles - Includipedia, The Inclusionist Encyclopaedia This article is about the Greek tragedian. For the scriptwriting software, see sophocles (software). sophocles or Sofokles (pronounced /ˈsɒfəkliːz/; ancient Greek http://www.includipedia.com/wiki/Sophocles

36. Sophocles Definition Of Sophocles In The Free Online Encyclopedia. sophocles (sŏf`əklēz), c.496 B.C.–406 B.C., Greek tragic dramatist, younger contemporary of Aeschylus Aeschylus, 525–456 B.C., Athenian tragic dramatist, b. http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Sophocles

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CacheBuster('') Printer Friendly 18,341,598 articles and books Periodicals Literature Keyword Title Author Topic Member login User name Password Remember me Join us Forgot password? Submit articles free The Free Library ... Literature Sophocles (496 B.C. - 406 B.C.) Sophocles, one of the greatest dramatists of the Athenian golden age, was born near Athens in about 495 B.C. His father was a wealthy merchant, and he enjoyed an aristocratic education in the arts. As a young man, his skills in music and dancing were such that he was chosen to lead a choir of boys at the celebrations of the victory over the Persians at Salamis. Sophocles' first performance as a playwright, at the age of twenty-eight, was at the City Dionysia of 486 B.C., in which he took first place in a victory over Aeschylus. He went on write over 120 more plays, which won eighteen first-place awards and in many of which he performed himself. Unfortunately, only seven of his tragedies survive, among which are the three Theban plays - Oedipus Rex Antigone , and Oedipus at Colonus - as well as Electra and Ajax . Of these

39. 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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40. Riley Collection: Greeks: Sophocles a series of web pages on Roman Imperial portrait sculptures at the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art and their historical and cultural context. http://www.vroma.org/~riley/sophocles/

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