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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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
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...
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...
Gilbert Murray
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...He applied his own unique approach to translating the works of the ancient Greek masters—including Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes—and in the process generated new interest for Greek drama on the contemporary London...

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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...
"Dostoyevsky and Parricide"
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...moralist, and Dostoyevsky the sinner. Freud regarded Dostoyevsky the writer as unassailable, placing his work alongside Sophocles' Oedipus Rex and Shakespeare's Hamlet . The moralist Freud dismissed, for Dostoyevsky confined himself to being the sinner...
Primal Fantasies
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...parents (see "Identification Fantasies," Alain de Mijolla [1981]). Fantasies of this kind tend to echo myth or tragedy (Sophocles, Shakespeare), for the same questions addressed there about the origins of things invariably recur in them: "Fantasies...
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...
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...
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...
Afterlife
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions ...connection with God and with the living is cut off, and certainly to be avoided or postponed as long as possible: it is, in Sophocles' words, ton apotropon Haidan , Hades to be shunned. The most militant reaction to this occurred in China, in the quest...
Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...followed are well known. It is somewhat surprising to note that in the very extensive index of proper names in Anti-Oedipus , Sophocles is not mentioned once. This is of course indicative of the authors' genuine intent to separate Oedipus as a psychic structure...

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"Goodlie anticke apparrell"?: Sophocles' Ajax at early modern Oxford and Cambridge.(FORUM: THE UNIVERSITIES AND THE THEATER)(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Shakespeare Studies; 1/1/2009; ; 700+ words ; ...ca. 1580), Philip Sidney mentions Sophocles' fifth-century play [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE...to Odysseus that he went mad: let but Sophocles bring you Ajax on a stage, killing or...contemporaries' attitudes towards Greek tragedy. Sophocles was embedded within the curriculum at...
Sophocles is latest Apprentice casualty.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England); 5/28/2008; 406 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; 361 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...
Sophocles' 'Oedipus Rex.' (comment on Bernhard Frank, The Explicator, vol. 51, p. 5, Fall 1992)
Magazine article from: The Explicator; 9/22/1993; ; 700+ words ; ...interpretation of the dramatic climax of Sophocles' Oedipus Rex (5-6). In the scene...and soothing shadows of Aristotle and Sophocles. Aristotle's famous definition of...frequent praise of Oedipus Rex proves that Sophocles' masterpiece met his highest standards...
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...
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 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...
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 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...