 "The Birmingham Post (England)")
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Captain Barclay: the original survivor; The Celebrated Captain Barclay - Sport, Money and Fame in Regency Britain. By Peter Radford (Headline, pounds 15.99). Reviewed by Michael Emery.(Books)
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In the summer of 1809 Britain may have been preparing to take on Napoleon but the majority of the population cared little about the forthcoming confrontation that was to culminate in the Battle of Waterloo.
What most concerned them was whether or not a combative, powerfully built Scottish Laird called Captain Robert Barclay would win his astonishing 1,000 guinea wager that he could walk one mile every hour without a break for 1,000 hours. That is just nine hours short of six weeks.
The reason the public was so enthralled was the amount of money involved. ...
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Sophocles is latest Apprentice casualty.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England)
; ...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...
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 "Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)")
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THE DOOR FOR SOPHOCLES.(News)
Newspaper article from: Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
; ...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...
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Sophocles's Oedipus the King and Spielberg's Minority Report.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: The Explicator
; ...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...
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Sophocles' 'Oedipus Rex.' (comment on Bernhard Frank, The Explicator, vol. 51, p. 5, Fall 1992)
Magazine article from: The Explicator
; ...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...
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 "Mosaic (Winnipeg)")
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Antigone now.(Sophocles' play 'Antigone')(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Mosaic (Winnipeg)
; ...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...
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Sophocles; selected fragmentary plays; v.1: Hermione, Polyxene, the Diners, Tereus, Troilus, Phaedra.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News
; 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...
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Sophocles and Alcibiades; Athenian politics in ancient Greek literature.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News
; 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...
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Citing the law in Sophocles's Antigone.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Mosaic (Winnipeg)
; ...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...
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Sophocles and the Greek Language: Aspects of Diction, Syntax and Pragmatics.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News
; 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...
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Sophocles' 'Antigone.' (ancient Athenian tragedist's work)
Magazine article from: The Explicator
; ...Nassaar suggests that the incest motif of Sophocles' Oedipus the King extends beyond the...CITED Knox, Bernard. Introduction to Sophocles: The Three Theban Plays. New York...1984. Nassaar, Christopher S. "Sophocles' O
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