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Sophocles
Sophocles , c.496 BC-406 BC, Greek tragic dramatist, younger contemporary of Aeschylus and older contemporary of Euripides , b. Colonus, near Athens. A man of wealth, charm, and genius, Sophocles was given posts of responsibility in peace and in war by the Athenians. He was a general and a priest... Read more
Thomas Watson
Thomas Watson 1557?-1592, English poet and scholar. He translated into Latin the Antigone of Sophocles and the Aminta of Tasso and wrote The Hecatompathia; or, Passionate Century of Love (1582), one of the earliest collections of sonnets in English. ... Read more
Antigone
Antigone , in Greek mythology, daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta. In Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus, she and her sister Ismene follow their father into exile at Colonus. When her brothers Eteocles and Polynices killed each other in the war of the Seven against Thebes , Creon, King of Thebes, forbade... Read more
Lycurgus
Lycurgus c.396-c.325 BC, one of the Ten Attic Orators of the Alexandrian canon; pupil of Isocrates. A capable and honored public official, he administered the state finances from 338 to 326 BC and led (with Demosthenes) the anti-Macedonian party. One of his official acts ordered the editing and pre... Read more
Philoctetes
Philoctetes , in Greek mythology, son of Poias. He acquired, by gift, the bow and arrow of Hercules by lighting the pyre on which the hero was consumed alive. On his way to the Trojan War, Philoctetes was bitten by a snake. Because the smell of his wound and his cries made him offensive, his compani... Read more
Euripides
Euripides , 480 or 485-406 BC, Greek tragic dramatist, ranking with Aeschylus and Sophocles . Born in Attica, he lived in Athens most of his life, though he spent much time on Salamis. He died in Macedonia, at the court of King Archelaus. He wrote perhaps 92 plays (the first produced in 455); dur... Read more
chorus
chorus in the drama of ancient Greece. Originally the chorus seems to have arisen from the singing of the dithyramb , and the dithyrambic chorus allegedly became a true dramatic chorus when Thespis in the 6th cent. BC introduced the actor. First the chorus as a participating actor tied the histr... Read more
Deutsches Theater
Deutsches Theater , German private theater organization founded in 1883. Under its first director, Adolph L'Arronge, the Deutsches merged with the Freie Bühne (Otto Brahm, director) and in 1884 built its own house in Berlin. Plays by Sophocles, Calderón, Molière, Shakespeare, and ... Read more
Electra
Electra , in Greek mythology. 1 Daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra. After her mother and Aegisthus murdered Agamemnon, Electra, eager for revenge, longed only for the return of her brother, Orestes . The reunion and vengeance of the brother and sister were dramatized by the three great traged... Read more
irony
irony figure of speech in which what is stated is not what is meant. The user of irony assumes that his reader or listener understands the concealed meaning of his statement. Perhaps the simplest form of irony is rhetorical irony, when, for effect, a speaker says the direct opposite of what she mea... Read more

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Sophocles
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Sophocles The Greek tragedian Sophocles (496-406 B.C.) ranks foremost among Greek classical dramatists...excellence. The son of Sophilus, a well-to-do industrialist, Sophocles was born in Colonus near Athens and grew up in the most brilliant...
Western drama
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Aeschylus introduced a second actor to the drama and Sophocles a third, Sophocles' format being continued by Euripides , the last...of transcendent power. Utilizing three actors, Sophocles developed dramatic action beyond anything Aeschylus...
Paxinou, Katina
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre ...one of her roles being Clytemnestra in Sophocles' Electra . In 1932 she joined the Greek...made her first appearance in London as Sophocles' Electra, followed by Gertrude in Hamlet...World Theatre Season , playing Jocasta in Sophocles' Oedipus Rex and the title-role in...
Euripides
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre ...Unlike his contemporaries Aeschylus and Sophocles he seems to have given all his time to...and chorus as finally established by Sophocles, with one important innovation. The...dialogue with which all the extant plays of Sophocles begin, were replaced by a formal prologos...
Antigone
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...in Greek mythology, daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta. In Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus, she and her sister Ismene follow their...cave where Creon ordered her buried alive. In addition to Sophocles' Antigone, plays and operas that rework her legend have...
Minotis, Alexis
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre ...Season , playing Oedipus to the Jocasta of his wife Katina Paxinou in Sophocles' Oedipus Rex , Talthybius to her Hecuba in Euripides' Hecuba , and Oedipus again in Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus . From 1967 to 1974 he ran his own company, presenting...
Oedipus Complex
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Psychology ...Oedipus" refers to Oedipus Rex, the classic Greek play by Sophocles, which tells the story of Oedipus, who is abandoned at birth...When I Love You." American Imago (Summer 1994): 213. Sophocles. Oedipus Rex. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University...
Oedipus
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...series of painful revelations, brilliantly dramatized by Sophocles in Oedipus Rex, the king learned the truth and in an agony...sons battled for the throne (see Seven against Thebes ). In Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus, Oedipus is guided in his later wanderings...
Aeschylus
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Greek writers of tragedy, Aeschylus was the predecessor of Sophocles and Euripides . Aeschylus fought at Marathon and at Salamis...three actors are used—an innovation borrowed from Sophocles. Because of its scope, complexity, and the profundity of...
Lacey, Catherine
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre ...Eliot's The Family Reunion (1939) and again in 1946. In 1951, with the Old Vic company, she played Clytemnestra in Sophocles' Electra . She was seen as Hecuba in Giraudoux's Tiger at the Gates (London and NY, 1955), and returned to the Old...

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Sophocles
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable Sophocles ( c. 496–406 bc), Greek dramatist. His seven surviving plays are notable for their complexity of plot and depth of characterization, and for their examination of the relationship between mortals and the divine order.
Tragedy and Comedy
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ...praise to the happily resolved Iphigenia among the Taurians of Sophocles, and, among narrative poems (since staging is not essential...tragedies were Aeschylus (525 – 456 b.c.e.), Sophocles (c. 496 – 406 b.c.e.), and Euripides...
Literary and Artistic Creation
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...a considerable place in his work (the works of Goethe and Sophocles being among the first), as in the work of his disciples...observations, the most perceptive being the Oedipus complex in Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus and his analysis of Hamlet in Shakespeare...
Oedipus Rex
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music ...Opera-oratorio in 2 acts by Stravinsky to lib. by J. Cocteau trans. into Lat. by J. Daniélou and based on Sophocles. Comp. 1926–7. Prod. Paris 1927 (as oratorio), London 1928 (broadcast), 1936 (concert). F. stage...
Antigone
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable Antigone in Greek mythology, daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta, the subject of a tragedy by Sophocles. She was sentenced to death for defying her uncle Creon, king of Thebes, by burying the ritually unburied body of her brother...
silence
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable ...16th century; often used as recommending a traditionally submissive and discreet role for women. In earlier references, Sophocles in Ajax has ‘silence is a woman's best ornament’, and 1 Corinthians 14:34 reads, ‘Let...
Education: Europe
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ...poet Callimachus (c. 305 – 240 b.c.e.), the tragedians Aeschylus (525 – 456 b.c.e.) and Sophocles (c. 496 – 406 b.c.e.), and the comedians Menander (342 – 292 b.c.e.) and Aristophanes...
Literary History
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ...spirits), who demand he be sacrificed in order to maintain the status quo. This is notable in Greek tragedies, especially Sophocles' Oedipus Rex, whose harsh, unrelenting climax is often viewed as pitiless. With respect to such forms, Aristotle introduced...
Abandonment
Dictionary entry from: Allusions--Cultural, Literary, Biblical, and Historical: A Thematic Dictionary ...s Tale ] Philoctetes Greek hero abandoned for ten years by his comrades because of the smell of his wound. [Gk. Drama: Sophocles Philoctetes in Ben é t, 783] Santuzza deserted by Turiddu after yielding to his advances. [Ital. Opera: Mascagni...
Applied Psychoanalysis and the Interactions of Psychoanalysis
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...Sigmund Freud, who felt that most psychoanalytic concepts were buttressed by the great myths and works of literature, such as Sophocles's Oedipus the King , Michelangelo's Moses , and Shakespeare's Hamlet , which he mentioned in his letter to Wilhelm Fliess...

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Sophocles is latest Apprentice casualty.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England); 5/28/2008; 392 words ; ...proclaimed exceptional individual Michael Sophocles has become the latest candidate to be...the public. But the team headed up by Sophocles only made pounds 2,114 in sales compared...s pounds 11,815. Sir Alan called Sophocles, who describes himself as an exceptional...
THE DOOR FOR SOPHOCLES.(News)
Newspaper article from: Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland); 5/28/2008; 347 words ; ...STYLED exceptional individual Michael Sophocles is the latest candidate to be booted...and Pagani Zondas to the public. But Sophocles' team made only pounds 2114 compared...rivals' pounds 11,815. Sugar called Sophocles a disaster zone . The tycoon added...
Sophocles's Oedipus the King and Spielberg's Minority Report.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: The Explicator; 6/22/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...One pairing teachers might consider is Sophocles's Oedipus the King with Steven Spielberg...borrow most of the central elements of Sophocles's play. In particular, the play and...comments about vision and blindness in Sophocles's play, such as Oedipus's comment...
Antigone now.(Sophocles' play 'Antigone')(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Mosaic (Winnipeg); 9/1/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...the Phenomenology of Spirit, he uses Sophocles's play to dramatize the transition...as well as the modern reception of Sophocles across intellectual, literary, and stage traditions. Sophocles's Antigone delivers as much diva as...
Sophocles; selected fragmentary plays; v.1: Hermione, Polyxene, the Diners, Tereus, Troilus, Phaedra.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 5/1/2007; 471 words ; 9780856687662 Sophocles; selected fragmentary plays; v...Diners, Tereus, Troilus, Phaedra. Sophocles. Ed. by Alan H. Sommerstein et al...100 plays of ancient Greek tragedian Sophocles, which survive today only as fragments...
Sophocles and Alcibiades; Athenian politics in ancient Greek literature.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 2/1/2009; 530 words ; 9780801447327 Sophocles and Alcibiades; Athenian politics...of literary historians who assumed Sophocles wrote in a vacuum inhabited by archetypes...past were wrong. He explains that Sophocles was a creature of contemporary politics...
Citing the law in Sophocles's Antigone.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Mosaic (Winnipeg); 9/1/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...emphasizes the judicial processes of Athens (Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 1051-53), and...fallibilities as well. In this respect, Sophocles's Antigone holds a special place in...although, as Richard Seaford notes, Sophocles's Theban plays might have reassured...
Sophocles and the Greek Language: Aspects of Diction, Syntax and Pragmatics.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 2/1/2006; 480 words ; 9004147527 Sophocles and the Greek language; aspects of diction, syntax...discuss such topics as some issues of vocabulary in Sophocles and Homer, false historic presents in Sophocles and Euripides, and speech acts and non-verbal actions...
Interpreting Sophocles' Philoctetes through Aristotle's theory of tragedy; how do we educate people to be wise?.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 2/1/2009; 571 words ; 9780773451858 Interpreting Sophocles' Philoctetes through Aristotle's theory...these ideas are reflected in the work of Sophocles, but her compelling subtext is that Aristotle and Sophocles are relevant to life today. Her explanations...
The Power of `Gospel'; Workshop Production Revitalizes Sophocles
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 3/29/1996; ; 700+ words ; ...few small adaptations, is the work of Sophocles, who died nearly 2,500 years ago after...survived. The Athenian society in which Sophocles flourished was based on slavery, treated...presented without music, the text of Sophocles' "Oedipus at Colonus" would attract...