| 单词 | Sophocles |
| 例句 | We also find that the nouns play and mother are preceded by the words Sophocles’ and his, which have the function “determiner.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z He is a prominent character in three of Euripides’ plays and in one of Sophocles. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z After extensive negotiations, the king convinced the government of Athens to lend him what amounted to state treasures: the definitive editions of the plays of the three great dramatists: Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z I only performed in a few dramas, but I had one memorable role: that of Creon, the king of Thebes, in Sophocles’ Antigone. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Pompey, uneasy about the meeting, bid farewell to his wife with Sophocles’s quote: “Whoever has dealings with a tyrant is his slave, even if he goes as a free man.” Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z Now we can see why the word Sophocles’ shows up in the tree with the category “noun” and the function “determiner” rather than “adjective.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z When you think about it, there is no common thread of ownership, or any other meaning, across the phrases Sophocles’ play, Sophocles’ nose, Sophocles’ toga, Sophocles’mother, Sophocles’ hometown, Sophocles’ era, and Sophocles’ death. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Just as the greatest plays of Aeschylus, in the fifth century, are about Atreus’ descendants, so the greatest plays of his contemporary Sophocles are about Oedipus and his children. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Sophocles, Euripides’ contemporary, describes how the hero died. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Here, for instance, is how you would diagram the sentence In Sophocles’ play, Oedipus married his mother: Oedipus married mother The Reed-Kellogg notation was innovative in its day, but I for one don’t miss it. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Yes, but as old Cephalus once heard Sophocles say, the least of us know that love is a cruel and terrible master. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Geographical knowledge in the classical period of fifth to fourth centuries bce—the times of Socrates, Plato, Pericles, Sophocles, and Aristotle—was not much broader than in Homer’s day, four hundred years earlier. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z Ptolemy III Euergetes wished to borrow from Athens the original manuscripts or official state copies of the great ancient tragedies of Sophocles, Aeschylus and Euripides. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The word belongs to the noun category, just as it always has; Sophocles did not suddenly turn into an adjective just because it is parked in front of another noun. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z I have taken the story of Philoctetes and the death of Ajax from two plays of the fifth-century tragic poet Sophocles. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z It has no rival in Greek tragedy except the four plays of Sophocles about Oedipus and his children. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z We do know that of the 123 plays of Sophocles in the Library, only seven survived. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The end, the tale of what happened to the Trojan women when Troy fell, comes from a play by Sophocles’ fellow playwright, Euripides. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z If you were unfamiliar with the story of Oedipus Rex and I simply said, “Sophocles play story kill Laius wife Jocasta wed Oedipus father mother,” you wouldn’t guess what happened in a million years. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z I have taken this story from the Antigone and the Oedipus at Colonus, two of Sophocles’ plays, with the exception of the death of Menoeceus, which is told in a play of Euripides, The Suppliants. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z All that the Sophocles’s have in common is that they fill the determiner slot in the tree and help you determine which play, which nose, and so on, the speaker had in mind. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Her lips moved as if she were speaking Sophocles’ lines to Sophocles himself, as if, contrary to all intellectual evidence, she understood the literary reasons for their endurance. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I have taken this story entirely from Sophocles’ play of that name except for the riddle of the Sphinx which Sophocles merely alludes to. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The other two, Sophocles and Euripides, were a little younger. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z And anyone who has read Sophocles or Freud knows that while we all love our dads, we all still harbour a deep, secret urge to kill them. Lionel Asbo: State of England by Martin Amis – review 2012-06-09T23:06:18Z While in Paris in 1933, he was commissioned to write incidental music for a production of Sophocles’ “Philoctetes” at the Harvard Classical Club. Elliott Carter, Composer of the Avant-Garde, Dies at 103 2012-11-06T03:06:19Z The daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta, Antigone in Sophocles’s play is a woman whose defiance of the state, in service of her own belief in what is right, spells her ruin. Juliette Binoche, from English patients to Greek heroines 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z The injuries that occur in “Sophocles in Staten Island” are superficial: hurt feelings, yes; murders and eye gouging via fashion accessory, no. How ‘Sophocles in Staten Island’ Gains in Translation 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z There’s the poster for Sophocles’s “Antigone” featuring a hand with blood-red nails probing a jagged dark mass that could be a crown. At the embassy of the Republic of Slovenia, an exhibit of theater posters as high art Lee Breuer’s adaptation of Sophocles’s play — a sequel of sorts to “Oedipus Rex” — reimagines a Greek tragedy as a Pentecostal church service, creating a soulful and often joyful exploration of forgiveness. 8 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z The Theater of War project, founded in 2008, presents readings of Greek tragedies by Sophocles, Aeschylus, and Euripides to military veterans. Sunday Reading: Veterans’ Stories 2019-11-10T05:00:00Z Sophocles may disagree, but this isn’t Thebes: It’s Staten Island. How ‘Sophocles in Staten Island’ Gains in Translation 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z In fact, it is Medea, the play by Sophocles. The Carpetbagger: A Filmmaker Comes to Terms With a Modern Medea 2012-12-12T20:00:48Z He wants to transform Sophocles’ “Ajax” into a contemporary play about post-traumatic stress disorder among American soldiers. Review: What Would Sophocles Do? Pucker Up, Perhaps 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z Sophocles’ tragedy of family and self is given a warm-up under the South Central sun. What’s New in NYC Theater 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z That script, adapted from Sophocles by the great Irish poet Seamus Heaney, is lovely to hear even as it tells a vicious tale. Review: ‘The Burial at Thebes,’ a Vicious but Poetic Tale Retold 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z Nietzsche's heroes were Aeschylus and Sophocles, whose characters are mythic beings. Ragnar?k: the doom of the gods 2011-08-05T21:55:10Z Taking on Sophocles' Theban plays – Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone, adapted and directed by Don Taylor – was particularly ambitious, but their screenings over successive nights in 1984 were widely applauded. Louis Marks obituary 2010-10-07T17:24:00Z This time there are impersonations of Tom Hardy and renditions of Frankie Valli’s Grease, but also long discussions of Aristotle’s Poetics, and a scene in which the pair enact the death of Sophocles. Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan: 'Work-wise, Steve's terrific. On a personal level, appalling' 2020-02-15T05:00:00Z Wertenbaker has written for radio and film, too, and translated plays by other dramatists, from Sophocles to Racine. Timberlake Wertenbaker: 'I'd love to write for Holby City' 2013-01-14T18:45:02Z Certainly Sophocles and Euripides never found room for a banjo. Desire Under the Elms 2010-09-29T21:15:00Z In Sophocles' plays, Antigone, imprisoned for her refusal to heed the state and leave her brother unburied, hangs herself. To be or not to be: Playwrights on the complex issue of suicide 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z “Doing the entire oeuvre of Sophocles plays felt right in line with the work we’ve been doing,” he said. Sean Graney?s ?These Seven Sicknesses,? Sophocles at Flea 2012-01-12T18:12:27Z They were set out 2,000 years ago by Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides. When will Nicholas Sparks stop making girls cry? 2010-04-22T21:05:00Z That scene is as rowdy and demented as anything out of a Marx Brothers movie and as unutterably despairing as a choral lament from Sophocles. | 'Uncle Vanya': ‘Uncle Vanya’ With Cate Blanchett at City Center 2012-07-22T18:31:05Z Set against the melancholy background of a well and a fallen tree, it earnestly captures the interplay between moral principles and family trauma in Sophocles’ play, only losing momentum in a couple of scenes. In Paris, Young Theater Makers Swing Big 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z Instead, I thought of Edward Albee, for the merciless wit, and Sophocles, for the Oedipal anxiety. Review: In ‘Textplay,’ Stoppard and Beckett Get Snarky, FWIW 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z There is a view that a drama about such a subject should not be made, which ignores the fact that since Sophocles, dramatists have engaged with the darkest areas of human experience. Inside the mind of serial killer Fred West 2011-07-31T19:30:01Z Aldus was the first to print Aristotle, Thucydides, Herodotus and Sophocles, among others in the Greek canon. A Grolier Club Tribute to the Printer Aldus Manutius 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z Euripides is more our contemporary than either Aeschylus or Sophocles, but we still have little clue how to meet the demands of his ancient postmodernism. 'Iphigenia in Aulis' at Getty Villa: Chasing the ever-elusive Euripides 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z Lines from Sophocles’ “Ajax,” about the great warrior who met a shameful end, are woven into the script. Theater Review: ‘Actress Fury,’ a Dance-Theater Work Set in a Dressing Room 2014-02-10T22:37:23Z She remembered a sign down in the town: The Sophocles School of Motoring. Winter Break 2010-12-04T00:05:00Z As in the Sophocles show, the cast interacts with the audience between acts. Theater Review: ‘The Mysteries’ Retells the Bible at the Flea Theater 2014-04-21T21:16:34Z This is O'Neill aiming for the effect of Greek tragedy with nods in the direction of Euripides and Sophocles – not to mention Sigmund Freud. Desire Under the Elms – review 2012-10-09T12:08:38Z Theater of War Productions looks at current issues through the prism of classic texts, and it often returns to Sophocles’s “Oedipus the King” as a way to consider the current pandemic. Theater to Stream: A World of Fringe and More Apples 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z In an age when dramaturgy is more influenced by the cinema than Sophocles, we warm to Ibsen's formal precision. Henrik Ibsen: the demon inside A Doll's House 2012-07-16T15:08:37Z In 1960, The New York Times published an article with a headline that read, “Road From Sophocles to Spock Is Often a Bumpy One.” The Independent Women of Sweet Briar 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z I was teaching an introductory course to Western culture — Sophocles, ‘The Confessions of St. Augustine’ — and I added ‘Virginia Woolf’ to the list as soon as I got back. ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf’ Returns for an Anniversary 2012-09-29T23:00:21Z Theater of War “The Sopranos’” Michael Imperioli, et al., perform readings from Sophocles’ ancient Greek tragedy “Ajax.” L.A. theater openings, Nov. 6-13: 'Everything in Between' and more 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z This makes for an appealing mix, and with their mighty choruses and serious tone, they can make a strong dramatic impact, as “Antigona,” based on Sophocles’s drama “Antigone,” demonstrates. Muisc: Rare Glimpses of Traetta's 'Antigona' and Strauss's 'Danae' 2011-02-01T12:30:03Z Antigone by Sophocles, in a new translation by Anne Carson. Juliette Binoche, from English patients to Greek heroines 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z For the Miss America pageant in Atlantic City, her talent performance was a dramatic reading from Sophocles’ “Antigone.” Dawn Wells, Mary Ann on ‘Gilligan’s Island,’ Dies at 82 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z Kristin Scott Thomas has been lauded for her performance as Electra in a new production of Sophocles' ancient drama. Kristin Scott Thomas electrifies critics 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z The two had worked extensively with Mr. Stein and were at the Salzburg Festival to work with him on a production of Sophocles’ “Oedipus at Colonus.” Met?s Replacement Gets in Tune 2010-09-21T22:09:00Z That he groups together Sophocles, Shakespeare and Francis Ford Coppola says everything about his regard for filmmaking. Arts & Leisure: Alexander Payne?s New Film, ?The Descendants? 2011-11-09T13:00:06Z In “Sophocles’ Message for American Veterans,” Robin Wright considers the lessons that ancient Greek tragedies can offer modern military culture. Sunday Reading: Veterans’ Stories 2019-11-10T05:00:00Z She proposed renting football stadiums so that audiences of thirty thousand could see the Sophocles plays. Theatre of War: Sophocles’ Message for American Veterans 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z Of course, ready-made formal choruses aren’t as easy to come by in the 21st century as they were in the age of Sophocles. Review: In ‘The Events,’ a Shooting Leaves a Survivor in Purgatory 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z But in the comparatively cheerful “Sophocles in Staten Island,” it’s not the warring but the inability of each side to communicate and embrace change that poses the threat. How ‘Sophocles in Staten Island’ Gains in Translation 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z A mythic rebel drawn by Sophocles, she risks her life to bury her disgraced dead brother, an enemy of the state. At Under the Radar, Family Histories Bubble Up With No Easy Answers 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z Writing in Saturday Review, however, Henry Hewes declared, “What they have done with Brecht’s 1947 version of Sophocles’ ‘Antigone’ is incredible and enormous.” Judith Malina, Founder of the Living Theater, Dies at 88 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z He reads Sophocles, weighs probabilities, considers the potential effect of the weather on the criminal mind. Book review: ‘The Siege,’ by Arturo Pérez-Reverte 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z Both works involve an ailing soldier, but whether Harris makes any deeper connections to the Sophocles work, or aspires to some dialogue between her piece and the classic, is unclear. ‘On Sugarland’ Review: A Nameless War, and Too Many Wounds to Count 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z Almost twenty-five hundred years ago, Sophocles, Aeschylus, and Euripides wrote tragedies about the human spirit shattered, corrupted, and abused by war. Theatre of War: Sophocles’ Message for American Veterans 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z The Gospel at Colonus Playhouse, Until 23 August As an adaptation of Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus, however, Lee Breuer's production is a lot less convincing – even troubling. The Gospel at Colonus 2010-08-22T14:51:00Z Theater review The collision of fate and free will, curse and conduct in Sophocles’ play “Oedipus the King” is a spectacle of self-destruction that resonates through the millennia. In eSe Teatro production, ‘Oedipus’ gets an L.A. makeover | Theater review 2012-12-10T22:17:46Z The legend of Oedipus was familiar to him: In his 30-year career, Mouawad has staged Sophocles’s “Oedipus the King” three times. With a Rare ‘Oedipe,’ the Paris Opera Pulls Together 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z Simply by turning her head, she could communicate a level of violent exasperation not seen since Sophocles' Electra first told her mother how she really felt about her. Elaine Stritch's originality blazed fiercely on Broadway 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z Parks takes up a classic subject of drama — freedom — exploring it not just as an existential conundrum à la Sophocles but as a traumatic historical condition. Suzan-Lori Parks moves a stage beyond race to get to our 'mythic or epic experience' in her plays 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z A bold retelling of Sophocles’ “Antigone” that follows the lives of three British siblings of Pakistani descent. 100 Notable Books of 2017 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, Sophocles's cast has undergone a sea change in the vowels of the American south. Caledonia; The Gospel at Colonus; Vieux Carr? 2010-08-28T23:06:00Z Bibi, the Parisian laborer who modeled for “Man With the Broken Nose,” resembles a Silenus or a Sophocles. ‘Rodin and the Art of Ancient Greece’ Review: Recasting History 2018-04-28T04:00:00Z While most high school students are exposed to classics by Shakespeare, Sophocles and Arthur Miller, children and teenagers rarely pick up plays for fun. ‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’ Goes From Stage to Page on Saturday at the Witching Hour 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z The Sophocles tale not only comes out of the Western canon but its notion of the headstrong individualist who probes and questions and tempts fate is convenient shorthand for the would-be tradition-killers of Western modernity. In Orhan Pamuk’s New Novel, a Youthful Obsession Yields a Haunted Life 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z Sophocles wrote his play in the fifth century B.C., during a time of plague in Athens, and Shakespeare lived through the Bubonic plague, so both playwrights undoubtedly had widespread sickness in mind as they wrote. A Plague on Your Houses: Reading Covid-19 Into Disease Onstage 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z When asked about his influences, Albee once piquantly paired Sophocles and Noël Coward, and his work can be seen as a unique blend of tragic vision and hyper-articulate wit. The genius of Edward Albee and the inner voice that brought difficult truths to the stage 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z Though the fit requires many artistic liberties, including a Greek chorus of orange-jumpsuited convicts, Alfaro’s drama is rooted in the poetic spirit of Sophocles. In eSe Teatro production, ‘Oedipus’ gets an L.A. makeover | Theater review 2012-12-10T22:17:46Z As “A View From the Bridge” was gearing up, his revival of Sophocles’s “Antigone,” which started in Luxembourg with Juliette Binoche in the title role, was touring to institutional theaters in New York and Washington. Broadway’s man of the moment: Ivo van Hove 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z Grant was inspired by Sophocles’ play “Antigone,” whose female protagonist defies political decrees to honor her dead brother. Two artists try to portray the indescribable at Pasadena Museum of California Art 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z Antigone, at the National Theatre, set Sophocles' drama in a 1970s police state, along with references to the raid on Osama Bin Laden compound and upheavals in the Middle East. Trojan tragedy goes modern 2012-11-15T06:55:18Z Sophocles and post-traumatic stress disorder commingle in “Ajax in Iraq” at the Miles Memorial Playhouse, to dazzling, disturbing effect. 'Ajax in Iraq' at Miles Memorial Playhouse 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z These true-crime series fill a real need, one extant since Sophocles’ days: to see a story through to the point of catharsis or, failing that, ironic tragedy. Review: 'The People v. O.J. Simpson' and 'American Crime' Aim for Ambiguity 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z Stravinsky took inspiration from Sophocles; Honegger, from Joan of Arc. Review: A ‘Dreamers’ Oratorio Tries to Transcend the Trump Moment 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z Then Tom Stoppard’s “Arcadia,” a Penguin edition of Sophocles, “The Three Theban Plays,” and two books by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin: “The Phenomenon of Man” and “Writings Selected.” Alice McDermott Is Reading ‘Frankenstein’ for the First Time 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z He was also the author of a memoir, "Misgivings," a book about Walt Whitman, translations of "The Bacchae" and Sophocles, and the essay collections "Poetry and Consciousness" and "In Time." Award-winning poet C.K. Williams dies at 78 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z "How is a Greek chorus like a lawyer?" ask the chorus in Anne Carson's latest work, a translation of Sophocles' Antigone. Antigonick by Anne Carson - review 2012-06-08T21:55:02Z And there was plenty of Sophocles, specifically Oedipus Rex, as evidenced by the episode’s concern with whether a man is master of his destiny, or if his fate is predetermined, even from his birth. Boardwalk Empire Watch: Mother, May I Sleep With Danger? 2011-12-05T14:41:07Z "Thebans," based on the tragedies of Sophocles, is a first opera from composer Julian Anderson, with libretto by Irish playwright Frank McGuinness. Terry Gilliam to direct Berlioz opera at ENO 2013-05-01T13:53:08Z Right now I'm studying ethics and politics, taking ancient Greek tragedy as a base – Sophocles and stuff. Delorean: 'We're a friend alliance first, a musical project second' 2012-06-20T14:26:00Z As Sophocles learned some time ago, when a dramatic character chooses that path, she elevates the tension and gravity of the work around her. “The Skeleton Twins”: Kristen Wiig and Bill Hader go dark in a potent sibling dramedy 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z It’s nice to see the Pearl, which mounts everything from Sophocles to Ibsen, doing a 20th-century American play, though “Roses” seems a safe choice. | 'The Subject Was Roses': At Pearl Theater, a Son Home From War 2010-04-26T22:18:00Z As recounted in plays by Aeschylus, Euripides and Sophocles, Electra’s mother, Clytemnestra, murders her husband as revenge for him killing another of their daughters many years earlier. A Director Brings Cerebral, Sexy Style to Opera Classics 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z Dark doings and themes always surface in the arts in late October, but as portrayed by Sophocles and Shakespeare, they’re also timeless — and, in the hands of this Lincoln Center series, age-appropriate. 8 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z I first became fully conscious of them on this trip in an expected context, a revival of a bonafide Greek tragedy: Sophocles' "Antigone," directed by Polly Findlay at the National Theater. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: A Chorus of Voices 2012-07-12T16:46:49Z Cornel West, a self-described Jane Austen fanatic, brought down the house with a thunderous Saturday morning sermon on Austen’s understanding of human suffering that name-checked Sophocles, Shakespeare, Chekhov and Leo Strauss. Jane Austen Society of North America Meets in Brooklyn 2012-10-09T01:17:17Z Todd van der Ark's adaptation of the Sophocles tragedy about the Greek warrior. Your best arts and entertainment bets for the week ahead 2011-05-04T19:48:05Z In “Sophocles in Staten Island,” a pithy 33-minute film, a Filipino-American family works on a home video adaptation of those two plays while in quarantine. How ‘Sophocles in Staten Island’ Gains in Translation 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z It’s certainly true that, as written by Sophocles, Electra runs a gamut of emotions that doesn’t get very far into the alphabet. ‘Electra’ Stars Kristin Scott Thomas at the Old Vic Theater 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z One of my favorite teaching experiences was when I participated in Bard’s Prison Initiative last autumn, teaching Sophocles and Euripides to the inmates at a maximum-security facility about an hour from campus. Daniel Mendelsohn: By the Book 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z Oedipus is already blind and staggering toward death in Sophocles’ later play “Oedipus at Colonus,” and the musical adaptation divides the tragic character in half. Perspective | Sing out, Oedipus! ‘Gospel at Colonus’ looks its Sunday best 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z If Sophocles, Shakespeare and Beckett don't fit a definition of literature, then surely it's the definition that's lacking. Are plays proper literature? 2010-05-27T14:13:00Z Sophocles' "Oedipus Rex" offers a meditation on the fragile estate of mankind operating in a world whose larger design remains inscrutable. The arts become Earth-aware: Dawning age of what are known as eco-arts 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z No audience is being invited to Friday’s opening of Sophocles’ “The Women of Trachis” on the campus of Pennsylvania’s Swarthmore College. Perspective | No one will ever see this play, and no actors are coming either. But the show will go on. 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z It plays freely with Sophocles’ drama but hews to its themes: civil disobedience, fidelity and the law, especially as regards burial rights. In ‘Home Fire,’ Lives Touched by Immigration, Jihad and Family Love 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z "This is meant to be Sophocles, reaching into our viscera with his awful predicaments," said his two star review. Kristin Scott Thomas electrifies critics 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z Haida awakens something in Tsukuru, and it’s not his inner Sophocles. Haruki Murakami’s ‘Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage’ 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z In Sophocles, fighting within a family only results in chaos; that’s the tragedy. How ‘Sophocles in Staten Island’ Gains in Translation 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z Antigonick, a "comic book" of Sophocles' tragedy, is one of Carson's strangest works. Antigonick by Anne Carson - review 2012-06-08T21:55:02Z “Oedipus Rex,” by Sophocles, first performed 429 B.C., premiered at Theater of Dionysus, Athens. Deborah Levy Would Like to Drink With Virginia Woolf 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z "And anyone who has read Sophocles or Freud knows that while we all love our dads, we all still harbour a deep, secret urge to kill them." Critical eye: reviews roundup 2012-06-15T21:55:16Z He brought philosophy books and plays by Sophocles and Aeschylus with him. A Debut Novelist’s Descent into Darkness 2017-08-27T04:00:00Z Sophocles’ narrative is not the easiest to follow, and “Antigona” takes pains to provide context amid the dance and song, almost all of it performed in Spanish with clear, well designed English supertitles. Review: ‘Antigona,’ From Noche Flamenca, Pairs Rhythmic Dance With Greek Drama 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z Such unrest in a nation’s soul has inspired playwrights since Sophocles. Shining a light into the political chasm of America through Scalia and 'The Originalist' 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z He was a student at Morehouse College during the contested 2000 presidential election and 9/11 – “Boom, boom, boom, as I was discovering Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides,” he says of the arresting news. Why artists become activists: It’s not only the election 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z The three women were preparing for “The Nurse Antigone,” a dramatic reading of a translation of Sophocles’ “Antigone” that is to be presented on Zoom on Thursday by Theater of War Productions. Confronting Grief, With Margaret Atwood, in ‘The Nurse Antigone’ 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z Are the women, as in Sophocles’ “Antigone,” burying their brothers, dead on opposite sides of a civil war? Three Journeys Under the Radar: Trippy, Unsettling and Affectionate 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z Ismert had introduced him to Sophocles in the 1990s — “and not just that,” he said. With a Rare ‘Oedipe,’ the Paris Opera Pulls Together 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z Handel's 1744 musical drama spun the source, Sophocles' play "The Women of Trachis," into a proper Enlightenment oratorio that ends, neatly and happily, with the chorus extolling "liberty's immortal song." 'Hercules': Lyric Opera season closes on spectacular note 2011-03-06T18:37:00Z Correction: A previous version of this story said “The Race” actors would lead viewers through dramatized playlets including an excerpt from Sophocles’s “Antigone.” How imperiled is our democracy? ‘The Race’ wants you to weigh in. 2020-10-19T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, Domingo continues work on Sophocles’ second play, putting on the crown as King Creon, and suddenly Autumn becomes a real-life Antigone, railing against his despotic rule. How ‘Sophocles in Staten Island’ Gains in Translation 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z If others found “The Normal Heart” a statistics-laden screed, Mr. Mantello felt a visceral recognition that Molière and Sophocles had never triggered. A Return to Acting That?s From the Heart 2011-05-25T15:10:50Z But that is to sugar over Sophocles, in whom rage and resignation are more present than the hope of reward. Caledonia; The Gospel at Colonus; Vieux Carr? 2010-08-28T23:06:00Z Because if somebody would do the Sophocles text, nobody would ever expect to see anything but an arranged, newly created text — new translation, new dramaturgy, maybe even new material.’” Could You Shorten That Aria? Opera Weighs Cuts in the Classics 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z Kick Kennedy will play the title role in Sophocles’ timeless play about a woman willing to die to defend her family’s honor. RFK’s Granddaughter to Make New York Stage Debut 2013-12-09T18:19:41Z “We dissect the lyrics of ‘Big Pimpin’,’ but we don’t read Spenser or Sophocles closely,” one student complained in the college newspaper. Review | In Michael Eric Dyson’s new book, Jay-Z is the living embodiment of American ideals 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z Sophocles’s Antigone is about Antigone’s relationships with her uncle and her sister and her dead brother. Relationship advice: Forget Venus and Mars 2012-09-04T12:00:00Z For audiences unaccustomed to eating dinner with strangers, let along spending five hours with Sophocles, Mr. Iskandar is reassuring. Sean Graney?s ?These Seven Sicknesses,? Sophocles at Flea 2012-01-12T18:12:27Z And far from feeling constrained by Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, Tóibín ventures into the lacunae of the old legends and pumps blood even into the silent figures of Greek tragedy. Colm Tóibín’s ‘House of Names’ gives voice to a furious mother 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z In the Sophocles play, Oedipus, a traveler who is named king of Thebes after defeating a sphinx that terrorized the city, attempts to circumvent his fate only to meet it. A Plague on Your Houses: Reading Covid-19 Into Disease Onstage 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z When Sophocles and Shakespeare simplify reality, as all artists must, they never lose sight of its slipperiness. How theater should respond to a democracy in meltdown 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z Recent Bats productions include Sean Graney’s “These Seven Sicknesses,” a twist on Sophocles’ seven surviving plays that included dinner and dessert served by the acting company. Flea Theater Gets a Place to Call Home 2013-12-08T22:36:06Z Doerries has also brought Sophocles' depiction of Heracles' death — he wanted his son to kill him to end his suffering — to evoke discussion of medical compassion and assisted suicide at Harvard Medical School. 'Theater of War' evokes eternal truths of battlefield in reading by David Strathairn, Alfred Molina and Heather Goldenhersh 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z Engraved just below the roof line are the names of ancient writers such as Homer, Virgil and Sophocles. Take an architectural walking tour of Norfolk 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z This version of “Iphigenia in Aulis” revises the final scene in a way that seems more beholden to the tradition of the story followed by Aeschylus and Sophocles. 'Iphigenia in Aulis' at Getty Villa: Chasing the ever-elusive Euripides 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z But in the Sophocles account the repercussions are particularly horrific. In eSe Teatro production, ‘Oedipus’ gets an L.A. makeover | Theater review 2012-12-10T22:17:46Z But I do note that Sophocles is listed as a Tragedian which is a cool thing to have under Occupation on your C.V. Deborah Levy Would Like to Drink With Virginia Woolf 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z Of course, the real art lies in the superstructure, in how Sophocles, Fitzgerald and Tolkien particularize this general archetype and make it into something fresh and uniquely their own. ‘Meanwhile, back at the ranch’ and other storytelling tricks explained in ‘Plots’ 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z Davidson knew his theater history — the classics were a regular part of his programming — and so it seemed only reasonable that today’s playwrights would walk down the same path as Sophocles, Shakespeare and Shaw. Gordon Davidson didn't just change L.A. theater, he changed L.A.'s image of itself 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z Encountering the title of Ms. Rossellini’s book, readers would guess that it includes prominent discussions of the Delphic maxim and of the myth of Oedipus or the play based on it, Sophocles ’ “Oedipus Rex.” ‘Know Thyself’ Review: The Evolution of a Culture 2018-06-10T04:00:00Z Imagine if Sophocles or Shakespeare or Dickens had heeded that advice! By the Book : John Irving: By the Book 2012-06-07T15:45:22Z In “Everything Under,” she subverts Sophocles’ “Oedipus Rex” by expanding the marginal part of Jocasta. Her Mother Disappeared 16 Years Ago. In This Novel, the Hunt Continues. 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z An ancient tragedy seen through the lens of current crises, this Classical Theater of Harlem production of the Sophocles play situates the action within the Black Lives Matter movement. 9 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z "We need to approach the warrior class with humility, not moral sanctimony," Doerries, who has translated plays by Sophocles and Aeschylus into English, said in an interview. 'Theater of War' evokes eternal truths of battlefield in reading by David Strathairn, Alfred Molina and Heather Goldenhersh 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z Among the tragedians, there are extant works from only three: Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides. What Ancient Greek Tragedies Can Teach Us About Grief 2023-09-12T04:00:00Z Ancient Greek tragedy is reformatted with the musical and storytelling rhythms of the Black Pentecostal church to bring us closer to the spirit of Sophocles’ art than the majority of academic revivals ever have. Review: An impassioned musical revival of 'The Gospel at Colonus' draws from the book of Oedipus 2023-09-08T04:00:00Z In Sophocles’s Antigone, for example, Antigone, the daughter of Oedipus, must decide whether to obey the laws or follow her religious beliefs. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z I saw him spellbind a room reciting Sophocles. Review | Ethan Hawke on a new biography of the elusive Sam Shepard 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z Gilman recognized that what Sophocles was pursuing in “Oedipus Rex” and Shakespeare in “King Lear,” Chekhov was similarly exploring in “The Three Sisters” and Beckett in “Waiting For Godot.” Commentary: Richard Gilman, the complicated subject of a new memoir, helped raise the bar for theater criticism 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z On Fridays, he retreats from the modern world to a London library filled with the works of Plato, Sophocles, Virgil and others. Britain Wants Its Early Retirees Back, but Their Days Are ‘Never Boring’ 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z We study the texts of Sophocles plays, but fail to appreciate that they are the skeletons of a theatrical experience synthesizing music, dance and spectacle in a manner quite removed from our modern playgoing experience. Review: An impassioned musical revival of 'The Gospel at Colonus' draws from the book of Oedipus 2023-09-08T04:00:00Z Instead, he gave an answer that, in retrospect, feels as if it were written by Sophocles: “Those who are committed to serving their country.” The lonely exit of Adam Kinzinger 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z The tone is witty and self-deprecating, with pithy quotes from Shakespeare and Sophocles and chapter titles like “Ten Pounds in a Five-Pound Sack” and “Hatching a Catastrophe.” Frederick P. Brooks Jr., Computer Design Innovator, Dies at 91 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z In the Sophocles play “Antigone,” King Creon, after ordering the execution of his niece for betraying him, asks, “Am I to rule for others, or myself?” For Early Democracy, Theater Was a Catalyst 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z Sophocles’ masterpiece has been reimagined in an adventurous production in American Sign Language and spoken English. Review: A striking revival of 'Ghosts' at the Odyssey suffers from lack of ensemble cohesion 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z Sophocles’ play, written at the end of the playwright’s life and produced posthumously, invites bold reimagining. Review: An impassioned musical revival of 'The Gospel at Colonus' draws from the book of Oedipus 2023-09-08T04:00:00Z This is a credit both to the miracle of dramatic construction that is Sophocles’ play and to the bold originality of some of the characterizations. Review: Deaf West confronts passion of 'Oedipus' at the Getty Villa in expressive new version 2022-09-10T04:00:00Z But there are still surprises in a film that pulls from a wide range of sources, including good old Sophocles. Review | Violence and revenge define and ultimately undercut ‘The Northman’ 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z “Sophocles’ plays, for example, are all about the fear of civil war. For Early Democracy, Theater Was a Catalyst 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z That was Sophocles Papas, who ran a guitar studio on Connecticut Avenue NW and had studied with Andrés Segovia. Perspective | Carl Bernstein’s new memoir is an ode to his native Washington, the city that taught him how to be a reporter 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z Nor is the conflict as neatly organized as it is in “Antigone,” the last play in the trilogy but the first of the three works that Sophocles wrote. Review: An impassioned musical revival of 'The Gospel at Colonus' draws from the book of Oedipus 2023-09-08T04:00:00Z A sentimentality foreign to Sophocles makes a brief but noticeable appearance. Review: Deaf West confronts passion of 'Oedipus' at the Getty Villa in expressive new version 2022-09-10T04:00:00Z Wolter, whose home library includes everything from Sophocles to “The Grapes of Wrath,” is a careful reader, in his own way. In one small prairie town, two warring visions of America 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z Sophocles' play, written around 441 BC, is about the clash of loyalties between family and state in the aftermath of a civil war sparked by the death of the exiled king of Thebes, Antigone's father. What a Greek tragedy teaches us about modern migration 2021-12-27T05:00:00Z There are also expected to be references to Sophocles, the writer of ancient Greek tragedies. Time for humanity to grow up on climate, says PM 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z In “Oedipus at Colonus,” Sophocles is consumed with the prospect of salvation after prolonged suffering. Review: An impassioned musical revival of 'The Gospel at Colonus' draws from the book of Oedipus 2023-09-08T04:00:00Z “The Oedipus at Colonus Project” David Strathairn, Bill Camp and Taylor Schilling are among the actors giving dramatic readings from Sophocles’ tragedy in this virtual event presented by Theater of War Productions. Balloon art in a DTLA fountain, and 23 other best bets for the weekend 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z That section — about 650 square meters, or 7,000 square feet — was installed in 2000 and was used for the first time that year for a staging of “Oedipus Rex,” by Sophocles. $18 Million Refit of Colosseum Will Give Visitors a Gladiator’s View 2021-05-02T04:00:00Z Canada’s official Oscar submission to last year’s Academy Awards, “Antigone” is a refugee drama inspired by Sophocles’s play of the same name. New movies to stream this week: ‘The Inheritance,’ ‘Quo Vadis, Aida?’ and more 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z Golden Ages in the theater are not just a coincidence of lucky births, such as Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides or Marlowe, Shakespeare and Ben Jonson. My dream for theater: Toss the old business model in the dumpster fire of 2020 2020-12-21T05:00:00Z In “The Wound and the Bow,” an influential essay on Sophocles’ “Philoctetes,” Edmund Wilson articulated this conundrum in different terms, arguing that it reflected a conception of “superior strength as inseparable from disability.” Review: An impassioned musical revival of 'The Gospel at Colonus' draws from the book of Oedipus 2023-09-08T04:00:00Z Like Sophocles or Samuel Beckett or Toni Morrison — and yet unlike them — Caravaggio is an artist who goes there with us, to the painful places of reality. In Dark Times, I Sought Out the Turmoil of Caravaggio’s Paintings 2020-09-23T04:00:00Z The movie opens with a quote from Sophocles: “Nothing vast enters the life of mortals without a curse.” Review: A call to digital arms, 'The Social Dilemma' demands change 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z Plato, paraphrasing Sophocles, equated it with freedom: “When the passions relax their hold … we are freed from the grasp not of one mad master, only, but of many.” When the President Shows You an Old Man Shouting ‘White Power’ 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z It continued, for instance, to hold its annual drama festival at the Theater of Dionysus where, at some point, a new play by Sophocles had its debut. From here to dystopia 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z A co-production with Chicago’s Court Theatre, this rousing revival probes the mystery of Sophocles for one clear goal: communal catharsis. Review: An impassioned musical revival of 'The Gospel at Colonus' draws from the book of Oedipus 2023-09-08T04:00:00Z The German philosopher Hegel thought Sophocles’ “Antigone” was the high-water mark of classical tragedy for the way it elegantly dramatized the conflict between equally justified claims. A theater critic's letter to his students, past, present and future 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z There’s an ironically happy ending, but Sophocles is the first great dramatist to explore the corrosive effect of isolation. Six of the best plays about confinement | Michael Billington 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z Sophocles’ play endures because he understood so long ago the limits of character and the dangers of pride and power. Beach closures, dog walks gone wild: Adjusting to coronavirus life 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z Sophocles took the legendary story of Oedipus the king and added a wholly original element: he set its plot in motion with a plague. From here to dystopia 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z Ironically — and Sophocles’ play is built on structures of irony — Oedipus discovers his guilt through his merit. Oedipus Rex vs. President Trump: Leaders reveal themselves in times of plague 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z If there’s a common thread in the divergent art of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, it is in their shared commitment to complexity — to wrestling with contradiction, ambiguity and indeterminacy in matters of the gravest import. A theater critic's letter to his students, past, present and future 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z What classical literature there was – for example, just seven out of over 120 plays by Sophocles – had survived because medieval monks had thought it worth preserving, copying it over and over again down the generations. A scandal in Oxford: the curious case of the stolen gospel 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z At which point, Sophocles will be rolling in his grave. Allegations, punishment involving Astros, Patriots and Russia unlikely to deter cheaters as financial motivation grows 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z The final event of the second day — an unusual closer for a professional or academic conference — was a reading of Sophocles’ play "Ajax," as rewritten by Bryan Doerries. Moral injury and America’s endless conflicts 2019-12-08T05:00:00Z But Sophocles encourages us to stand back and view the human outline against the societal backdrop. Oedipus Rex vs. President Trump: Leaders reveal themselves in times of plague 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z Smashers include Sophocles, Michelangelo, Rembrandt, Bach, and Edison, who filed patents into his eighties. Why We Can’t Tell the Truth About Aging 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z Times theater critic Charles McNulty is still waiting for a production that can “meet the challenge of Sophocles’ hard-nosed brilliance in ‘Philoctetes.’ Essential Arts: What's next for Plácido Domingo and L.A. Opera after more accusations? 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z It was Sophocles, the Greek tragedian, who said, “I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.” Allegations, punishment involving Astros, Patriots and Russia unlikely to deter cheaters as financial motivation grows 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z Sophocles’ crew is just as reflective, but the dramatic gravity is stronger. Review: At the Getty Villa, Sophocles gets wounded in Aaron Posner's revamp of 'Philoctetes' 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z His grandiose personality defects — the blustering, mendacity and truculent solipsism — are made for “South Park,” not Sophocles. Oedipus Rex vs. President Trump: Leaders reveal themselves in times of plague 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z The title of the show is inspired by a well-known line in Sophocles’ “Antigone,” in which King Creon brings Antigone before him and orders her not to mourn the death of her brother. Datebook: Inspired by antiquity, painter Alexandra Grant tackles notions of love 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z A scholar of classics and military history, Hanson gazes upon Trump and sees Homer’s Achilles and Sophocles’s Ajax. Other presidents had a brain trust. But the intellectuals backing this White House are a bust. 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z We are paradise the way Sophocles would write it. The paradox of a perfect place that seems coated in kerosene - Los Angeles Times 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z Posner respects the complexity of the various points of view, but “The Heal” injures Sophocles in a plot twist that assigns guilt to Philoctetes for his wound. Review: At the Getty Villa, Sophocles gets wounded in Aaron Posner's revamp of 'Philoctetes' 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z Sophocles’ tragedy, held up by Aristotle as a model of structural elegance, probes the deepest existential questions. Oedipus Rex vs. President Trump: Leaders reveal themselves in times of plague 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z I asked Hippocrates an impertinent question about his legendary baldness, I watched Herodotus draw many long faces while discussing the imbroglio between city-states and, at a symposium, I helped Sophocles prank Aristophanes. Review | ’Assassin’s Creed Odyssey’ is very entertaining. If you have the time to truly play it. 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z Antigone, in the tragedy by Sophocles, argues that loyalty to her brother trumps the laws of Thebes. How a Notorious Gangster Was Exposed by His Own Sister 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z Literary page turner Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie Sophocles’s Antigone is remodelled for a searingly contemporary tale of state violence, Islamist radicalisation and family duty in this year’s Women’s prize winner. If you only read one book this summer … make it this one 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z Sophocles’ intricate plotting, which beautifully integrates internal movement with dramatic escalation, is simplified in a way that drains the play of its profundity of meaning. Review: At the Getty Villa, Sophocles gets wounded in Aaron Posner's revamp of 'Philoctetes' 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z Sophocles didn’t dramatize his version of the myth so that we could connect the character’s catastrophic fall to a personal shortcoming. Oedipus Rex vs. President Trump: Leaders reveal themselves in times of plague 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z Antigone For its inaugural production, new theater company Vaulting Ambition stages a modern retelling of Sophocles’ ancient tragedy. The week ahead in SoCal theater, July 8-15: 'Arrival & Departure,' 'Million Dollar Quartet' and more 2018-07-07T04:00:00Z Home Fire, a reworking of Sophocles' Greek tragedy Antigone, is about radicalisation and family loyalties. Shamsie wins Women's Prize for Fiction 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z Loosely based on Sophocles’ ancient Greek tragedy “Antigone,” her novel centers on three British Muslim siblings torn apart when one joins the Islamic State group. Kamila Shamsie’s ‘Home Fire’ wins Women’s Prize for Fiction 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z The title of Sophocles' tragedy "Oedipus Tyrannos" refers to how the protagonist, an outsider in Thebes, obtained the throne through personal achievement. In 'Tyrant,' Harvard professor Stephen Greenblatt turns to Shakespeare for answers to Trump 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z I’m not sure Sophocles would know what to do with a reality TV president, but imagining the prospect is useful. Oedipus Rex vs. President Trump: Leaders reveal themselves in times of plague 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z A theater company went to Rikers Island on Saturday to perform skits from plays by Sophocles that deal with wounded, traumatized warriors and how they deal with other people off the battleground. Rikers Island inmates get a taste of ancient Greece 2018-05-19T04:00:00Z A play by the ancient Greek playwright Sophocles is rethought by New York playwright Matt Minnicino, who serves warning to today’s autocrats. The 99-Seat Beat: Social history comes alive in 'The Ballad of Bimini Baths,' 'Ripe Frenzy' and 'Antigone' 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z But sitting here inside these four walls, accompanied by George Bernard Shaw, Sophocles and Mahmoud Darwish, he was able to break out of Gaza’s walls and connect with a wider world. A suicide in Gaza 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z Antigone, or We Are Rebels Asking for the Storm Fugitive Kind Theater stages this new adaptation of Sophocles' ancient tragedy about a grieving young woman's act of defiance in the face of tyranny. The week ahead in L.A. theater, May 6-13: 'Hamilton,' 'Antigone' and more 2018-05-06T04:00:00Z What separates Sophocles from his ancient Greek rivals, Aeschylus and Euripides, is his genius for character drawing. Oedipus Rex vs. President Trump: Leaders reveal themselves in times of plague 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z For me, they led to Herodotus’ The Histories, Thucydides, Peloponnesian War, and the ancient Greek playwrights like Sophocles and Euripides. New Sentences: From Emily Wilson’s Translation of the ‘Odyssey’ 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z Sophocles seems to warn rulers to beware of forcing the ruled to speak their minds against their better judgment—against their conscience. Compelled Political Speech Cuts Civic Friendship ‘Right in Two’ 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z The play does what theater has espoused since Sophocles and Shakespeare: let art speak to the splendor, rancor and disturbances of the times. With racial clashes rattling the country, the 'Hamilton' message of inclusion marches on 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z They’re packed with a love of cinema and rock music but rooted in the plays of Aeschylus and Sophocles. Sam Shepard was wild at heart and mapped the American soul 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z Sophocles’ sculptural approach to dramatic poetry allows us to take in the larger pattern of a life even as details of the composition impress upon us the individuality of the figure. Oedipus Rex vs. President Trump: Leaders reveal themselves in times of plague 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z Inspired by the example of Theater of War, we have created our own version of Sophocles’ poetry. Opinion | U.S. Veterans Use Greek Tragedy to Tell Us About War 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z On the other hand, as I reread the versions of the Electra story by Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, I found that I heard Electra’s voice too clearly. Colm Tóibín: how I rewrote a Greek tragedy 2017-05-20T04:00:00Z “He be using them S.A.T. words, talking about Sophocles,” a third joked. Can Technology Make Football Safer? 2017-01-01T05:00:00Z And, according to Matthew Wright, professor of Greek at the University of Exeter, the works we have by Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides are neither necessarily the best plays of their time, nor especially representative. The one where Medea saves her kids: lost classics of Greek tragedy 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z “Nowadays, when people say Europe, they do not mean Sophocles, or Descartes, or Bach, or Roman law,” Mr. Legutko said in a telephone interview. 'We Don’t Need to Be Alone’: A Political Shift Has Poland Assessing Its Values 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z While Sophocles is better remembered for writing “Antigone” and “Oedipus Rex,” he was also a general in the Athenian Army and lived during the decades-long Peloponnesian War. Opinion | U.S. Veterans Use Greek Tragedy to Tell Us About War 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z Unlike her students at the university, her night students tended to apply the Declaration—and their other readings, from Sophocles’ “Antigone” to Shakespeare’s sonnets—to their own lives. In Pursuit of Political Equality 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z Aristotle, in his Poetics, names Sophocles as the first to introduce scene painting to the dramatic stage. Designing Stages for Shakespeare and Kanye 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z He would like to find a particular trilogy by Xenocles – the now utterly obscure playwright who won first prize in the Great Dionysia, beating Sophocles’s Oedipus into second place. The one where Medea saves her kids: lost classics of Greek tragedy 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z Ancient Athens produced one of the world’s greatest “genius clusters,” which included Sophocles, Plato, and Socrates. Can the Right Geographic Conditions Help Create Geniuses? “I can feel it in my chest,” she said about Sophocles’ insight. Opinion | U.S. Veterans Use Greek Tragedy to Tell Us About War 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z We have seven each from Aeschylus and Sophocles, who wrote about ninety and a hundred and twenty, respectively. The Quest to Unlock an Ancient Library 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z Now, what if we said the writer of this plotline was a writer named Sophocles, and his ill-fated protagonist was a king called Oedipus? Two Pop Culture Wars: First Over Comics, Then Over Music 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z Sophocles’ Oedipus the King is often thought of as the original detective story. Sherlock Holmes Was an Economist in Disguise 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z Sophocles said that having one was to be “chained to a madman.” The 10 things you’ve always wanted to know about penises but were too afraid to ask 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z But most of his work involves Sophocles and American veterans. Opinion | U.S. Veterans Use Greek Tragedy to Tell Us About War 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z This gorgeous site witnessed the birth of Greek tragedy in the fifth century B.C., when playwrights such as Sophocles and Aeschylus crafted theatrical adaptations of popular, well-known Greek myths. The modern Greek tragedy of financial crisis 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z Plato had little use for dramatists like Sophocles or those plays based on the complex Oedipus. Two Pop Culture Wars: First Over Comics, Then Over Music 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z Sophocles’ Antigone refuses to accept her tyrannical uncle’s arbitrary edict, draws crucial distinctions between moral decency and contingent legislation, and buries her brother anyway. Classics for the people – why we should all learn from the ancient Greeks 2015-06-20T04:00:00Z The Victorian poet, Matthew Arnold, traced it back to ancient Greek tragedian Sophocles and called it "the eternal note of sadness." The Trouble With Ending Wars 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z The Greek predicament today is ancient Sophocles tragedy and no James Dean 'Rebel without a cause' movie. The James Dean Movie That Explains the Greek Debt Negotiations 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z He had always thought that Sophocles rhymed with “monocles,” until he heard an English student say it properly. Nothing Happens. Everything Happens. 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z That festival gave rise to the careers of the three great tragic playwrights: Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides. Latest News: Greek Bailout, Cold Weather, the Oscars 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z Like the plays of Sophocles and Euripides, Seneca’s dramas are based on myths. The Man to Know in Ancient Rome 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z The answer is “everything,” as Alice would realize if she had read Sophocles in college. “Still Alice” and “Paddington” Reviews 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z Before I became a mommy blogger, I wrote a monograph titled The Advent of Pluralism: Diversity and Conflict in the Age of Sophocles. I'm a Mommy Blogger and Proud of It 2014-11-18T05:00:00Z Scott Thomas, whose films include "Four Weddings and a Funeral" and "Only God Forgives," is starring in Sophocles' "Electra" at London's Old Vic Theatre. Kristin Scott Thomas to play UK queen onstage 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z Scott Thomas, whose films include “Four Weddings and a Funeral” and “Only God Forgives,” is currently starring in Sophocles’ “Electra” at London’s Old Vic Theatre. Kristin Scott Thomas to play UK queen onstage 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z “King Oedipus,” directing degree candidate Orion Jones heads a production of an experimental exploration of Sophocles’s tragedy revealing the classic story of one man’s frighteningly contemporary ambition and downfall. D.C. community calendar, Oct. 2-9, 2014 It's easy to pick out a chameleon quality that enabled him to switch, in the course of an evening, from Sophocles's tortured Oedipus to Sheridan's exuberant Mr Puff in The Critic. Laurence Olivier: still the actor's actor 25 years after his death 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z The books covered in the class include Homer’s “Iliad” and “Odyssey,” Sophocles’ “Oedipus Rex,” Dante’s “Inferno,” and selections from the Old Testament, among others. HAGELIN: Reading that’s good for the soul 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z Lost poems by Sappho, the 100-plus lost plays of Sophocles, the lost dialogues of Aristotle? Unlocking the scrolls of Herculaneum 2013-12-20T01:06:52Z It is often forgotten that the writings at the root of Western literature - the epics of Homer, the love-poems of Sappho, the tragedies of Sophocles and Euripides - were all, originally, music. How did ancient Greek music really sound? 2013-10-22T23:41:13Z There is no shortage of advice, from Sophocles to Einstein, about learning from them: Sir William Preece soon changed his mind about the telephone, for example. Outstanding mistakes of all time 2013-06-14T16:51:31Z With a vivid spectacle in the foreground framed by a stunning backdrop, it was like watching a staging of a Sophocles play in a beautiful Greek theater. Green Blog: Lost Actors in a Haunting Landscape 2013-01-30T12:39:14Z The actor plays Creon, King of Thebes, in a new National Theatre production, which transports Sophocles' tragic Greek drama to a 1970s police state. Eccleston praised for Antigone 2012-06-01T09:46:12Z Sophocles is said to have been much addicted to it.580.Some examples of the ascription of this vice to the divinities are given by Clem. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) 2012-04-27T02:00:34.267Z The Flea Theater will remount its production of “These Seven Sicknesses,” a five-hour, streamlined adaptation of seven Sophocles plays, from June 6 through July 1 at its TriBeCa space, the company announced on Wednesday. ArtsBeat: 'These Seven Sicknesses' Returns to the Flea Theater 2012-04-25T22:07:59Z It all comes, in the first instance, of being taught to copy Sophocles and travesty Virgil. Aspects of Modern Oxford 2012-04-25T02:01:12.193Z The Theater of Dionysus, in which �schylus, Sophocles, and Euripides produced their dramas, is of stone and silver-white marble. The Near East Dalmatia, Greece and Constantinople 2012-03-26T02:00:38.077Z With such leaders as Pericles and Phidias, as Sophocles and Plato, it seemed as though nothing was impossible to the mind of man. The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians 2012-03-20T02:00:11.133Z The line comes from a play of Sophocles, fr. The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire 2012-03-11T03:00:13.983Z It appears that he enjoyed Sophocles, while Horace "interested and excited him beyond his years." William Hickling Prescott 2012-03-11T03:00:12.297Z In the Œdipus of Sophocles, the chorus implore Minerva to preserve them from that divinity, which, without sword or buckler, strews the Theban streets with corpses, and is more invincible than Mars himself. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z Sophocles also sang, and showed in grand dramatic rhythm and melody, not a fable but a fact, the best he could interpret it: the judgments of Eternal Deity upon the erring sons of men. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol IV. No. XX. January, 1852. 2012-02-24T03:00:24.390Z But we turn to the passage of Sophocles, which has been above quoted—a passage peculiarly intended to express peace and rest—and we find that the birds sing among "wine-colored" ivy. Modern Painters. Vol. III (of V) Containing Part IV. Of Many Things 2012-02-20T03:00:15.843Z Owing to his volatile temperament the argument is varied by now a bit of vivid description like that of the archon’s feast when Sophocles appeared, now by some merely personal remark to Balaustion. Browning and His Century 2012-02-15T03:00:39.033Z No other literary form has so nobly responded to this great mission as that adopted by Sophocles, Shakespeare, Calderon, Corneille, and Ibsen. Tragedy 2012-01-31T03:00:19.343Z In March of this year the Saturday Morning Club of Boston gave a performance of the "Antigone" of Sophocles. Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 2012-01-24T03:00:23.377Z Of the latter, his classical studies may, no doubt, be taken as the inspiration, and his translation of Sophocles and Plautus will long rank with the most successful of Magyar translations of the ancient classics. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" 2012-01-22T03:00:24.397Z Again: in the passage of Sophocles, so often spoken of, I said there was some difficulty respecting a word often translated "thickets." Modern Painters. Vol. III (of V) Containing Part IV. Of Many Things 2012-02-20T03:00:15.843Z The ordeal of fire, practised, curiously enough, by the Greeks in the time of Sophocles, was allowed only to persons of high rank. Legal Lore Curiosities of Law and Lawyers 2012-01-17T03:00:20.443Z Whether fixed in the form of rules, or discernible only in the general resemblances of current practices, or represented by the great models of Sophocles, Shakespeare, or Racine, it has influenced every playwright. Tragedy 2012-01-31T03:00:19.343Z I read my new lecture—'Woman as shown by the Greek Dramatists': of whom I quoted from �schylus, Sophocles, and Aristophanes. Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 2012-01-24T03:00:23.377Z It requires a longer familiarity with the mind and heart of antiquity to realise and enjoy the full meaning of Sophocles, Thucydides, or Aristophanes, than of Homer, Euripides, or Theocritus. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z Sophocles makes Philoctetus cry out, and, on the ancient stage at any rate, he must actually have done so. The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) 2011-12-29T03:00:18.017Z It cannot be said of him as of his special favourite among Greek poets, Sophocles, that He saw life steadily and saw it whole. Tennyson and His Friends 2011-12-28T03:00:32.373Z Seneca's preëminence as a model for tragedy, however, was in general not contested, but rather increased by the growing knowledge of Euripides and Sophocles. Tragedy 2012-01-31T03:00:19.343Z Among the later poets, Calidas, who is the most renowned and esteemed in the dramatic poetry of the Indians, might be called by way of comparison, an Idyllic and sentimental Sophocles. The Philosophy of History, Vol. 1 of 2 2011-12-24T03:07:59.623Z Both in Aeschylus and in Sophocles the light and the gloom cast over the human story are not of this world. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z His versions of the Oedipus of Sophocles and of the Iphigenia of Euripides were rewarded by the Hungarian Academy, of which in 1838 he was elected honorary member. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" 2011-12-16T03:00:12.320Z The great tragic poets, for Schopenhauer also, are �schylus, Sophocles and Shakespeare. Schopenhauer 2011-12-14T03:00:15.367Z "Read Shakespeare," wrote Lyttleton to Aaron Hill, "but study Racine and Sophocles." Tragedy 2012-01-31T03:00:19.343Z The whole is awful as the pages of Sophocles. Oscar Wilde 2011-12-10T03:00:14.120Z But there is no trace of this in the work of the believer Sophocles. A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis 2011-12-06T03:00:21.763Z Yet, considered as a play, the Pastor fido disappoints a reader trained in the school of Sophocles or Shakespeare. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" 2011-12-16T03:00:12.320Z The truths which all Christians hold in common, and the moral principles to which Sophocles ascribes an unknown antiquity, guided him in history as in life. Letters of Lord Acton To Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone 2011-12-06T03:00:20.687Z Classicism in both England and France was not greatly imitative of either Sophocles or Racine, but mainly insistent on immaterialities. Tragedy 2012-01-31T03:00:19.343Z Sophocles was the colleague of Pericles in a high military command. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z I trust many of you have yourselves experienced the profound effect of the tragedy in which Sophocles handles this material. A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis 2011-12-06T03:00:21.763Z "Yep," said the Sailor, to whom all this was as intelligible as a play of Sophocles. The Sailor 2011-12-03T03:00:11.697Z If Sophocles or Cervantes had lived in the light of our culture, if Dante had prospered like Manzoni, George Eliot might have had a rival. Letters of Lord Acton To Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone 2011-12-06T03:00:20.687Z And we are told that he painted a scene for the tragedies of Aeschylus or Sophocles. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z He was only fifteen years younger than Sophocles; but when he entered on his poetical career, the old inspirations of tragedy were already failing. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z In one of the tragedies of Sophocles, Electra and Orestes meet before the gate of Mycen�, which we naturally suppose to have been this one. From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey 2011-11-26T03:00:12.337Z How simple it would be to convince us, if the spirit of Sophocles would come back to earth and tell us where to dig in order to find copies of his lost tragedies! The Book of Life 2011-11-25T03:00:13.343Z The present writer, who was at Merchant Taylors’ School from 1842 to 1850, used Xenophon, Homer, Euripides, Sophocles, and some volume of Analecta. Schools, School-Books and Schoolmasters 2011-11-16T03:00:25.713Z Woman in Homeric society enjoys a greater freedom, and receives greater respect, than in the Athens of Sophocles and Pericles. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z Aeschylus was the reputed author of 70 tragedies, Sophocles of 113, Euripides of 92; and there were others whose productiveness was equally great. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z Professor Harry, teacher of Greek in the Cincinnati University, has written a new metrical translation of the Antigone of Sophocles. More Portmanteau Plays 2011-11-11T03:00:27.887Z You would think that the soul of Sophocles, seeing our great need of beauty and wisdom, would be interested to give us his works! The Book of Life 2011-11-25T03:00:13.343Z But it has been observed that many of the ethical reflections of the great dramatists, and in particular of Sophocles and Euripides, are gnomic distiches expanded. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" 2011-10-31T02:00:28.703Z Sobriety and grace combined—that was the aristocratic privilege of the Athenian in the time of Sophocles and after. Human, All-Too-Human, Part II 2011-10-26T02:00:29.773Z Very few dramatists from Sophocles to Shakespeare have succeeded in subordinating the grotesque effect of madness to the tragic; and Greene is not to be included in the list. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z There are no majors; every student takes the same 16 yearlong courses, which generally feature about 15 students discussing Sophocles or Homer, and the professor acting more as catalyst than connoisseur. St. John?s College Puts Emphasis on What Teachers Don?t Know 2011-10-17T00:35:56Z There appears also the grandiose and smooth but stilted declamation which came rather from the imitation of Seneca than of Sophocles, and the tradition of which was never to be lost. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" 2011-10-14T02:00:26.280Z King Frederick William IV. of Prussia was greatly interested in the young composer, and employed him to write the music for the "Tragedy of Sophocles." Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ 2011-10-14T02:00:24.730Z This modesty of letting emotion but half appear is most clearly to be observed, for example, in Sophocles. Human, All-Too-Human, Part II 2011-10-26T02:00:29.773Z More and more he became filled with the grandeur of the Greek tragedians, Sophocles and Euripides above all others. Vondel's Lucifer 2011-10-09T02:00:28.557Z "Sophocles long ago Heard it on the �gean, and it brought Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow Of human misery; we...." his breath failed him and he was silent. Rough-Hewn 2011-09-20T02:00:15.147Z Sophocles is said to have observed that while he represented men as they ought to be, Euripides described them as they were. The Student's Mythology A Compendium of Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Assyrian, Persian, Hindoo, Chinese, Thibetian, Scandinavian, Celtic, Aztec, and Peruvian Mythologies 2011-09-12T02:00:29.450Z Sophocles, in the fragment of Rhizotomi, describes Hecates as crowned with oak leaves and serpents. Cultus Arborum Phallic Tree Worship 2011-09-12T02:00:27.807Z He quotes spurious productions of Hystaspes, of Orpheus and Sophocles, in which Christians had foisted their own ideas. Frauds and Follies of the Fathers A Review of the Worth of their Testimony to the Four Gospels 2011-08-30T02:00:32.823Z He was nearly double the age of the world's greatest dramatist, was seventeen years older than Euripides, and just as old as Sophocles. Vondel's Lucifer 2011-10-09T02:00:28.557Z The poets of the times, Aristophanes, Sophocles, and afterwards Æschylus, found it necessary, whatever were their private sentiments, to flatter the religious notions of the masses. The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind 2011-08-19T02:00:11.867Z Sophocles served with courage, but without gaining much distinction, in the Peloponnesian war, and was a witness of the miseries which that fatal struggle brought upon Greece. The Student's Mythology A Compendium of Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Assyrian, Persian, Hindoo, Chinese, Thibetian, Scandinavian, Celtic, Aztec, and Peruvian Mythologies 2011-09-12T02:00:29.450Z Look at the chain of events—‘circumstances’ they are called now: the ancients called them Fate, Sophocles called them Necessity. World's End A Story in Three Books 2011-08-16T02:00:47.740Z We are indebted for the following recension of Constantine and Areté to Mr. Sophocles of Harvard College. English and Scottish Ballads, Volume I (of 8) 2011-08-12T02:00:17.607Z Then he continues: "The 'Œdipus Coloneus' of Sophocles and the 'Supplicants' of Euripides have not honored Athens more than thou hast Amsterdam." Vondel's Lucifer 2011-10-09T02:00:28.557Z One day I was plodding over a page of Sophocles. Papers from Overlook-House 2011-08-07T02:00:08.643Z Sophocles wrote one hundred and thirty dramas, of which seven remain. The Student's Mythology A Compendium of Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Assyrian, Persian, Hindoo, Chinese, Thibetian, Scandinavian, Celtic, Aztec, and Peruvian Mythologies 2011-09-12T02:00:29.450Z And Sophocles was very fond of the Epic Cycle, so that he composed even entire plays in which he has followed the stories told in their fables. The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us 2011-08-02T02:00:21.843Z The subjects from Sophocles, equally classical in taste, and rich in colour and effect. Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad with Tales and Miscellanies Now First Collected Vol. II (of 3) 2011-07-24T02:00:08.803Z His next undertaking was the translation of the "Electra" of Sophocles, being aided in the work by Isaac Vossius, a son of the celebrated Leyden professor, who was himself also a profound scholar. Vondel's Lucifer 2011-10-09T02:00:28.557Z In the extant plays of his mighty successor, Sophocles, the drama is seen emerging triumphant, but the lyrical passages are still frequent and important. A Book About the Theater 2011-07-21T02:00:23.843Z He was at length defeated by a younger rival, Sophocles. The Student's Mythology A Compendium of Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Assyrian, Persian, Hindoo, Chinese, Thibetian, Scandinavian, Celtic, Aztec, and Peruvian Mythologies 2011-09-12T02:00:29.450Z For according to the Cedalion of Sophocles, you are A branded lot, all knaves and parasites. The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us 2011-08-02T02:00:21.843Z As a great scholar, therefore, and one who through a long life labored to beget scholarship in others, Sophocles deserves well of America. The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education 2011-07-19T02:00:17.220Z By others this drama was thought to combine the tenderness of Euripides with the sublimity of Sophocles. Vondel's Lucifer 2011-10-09T02:00:28.557Z To them Seneca was as imposing as Sophocles, and Horace was almost as weighty as Aristotle. A Book About the Theater 2011-07-21T02:00:23.843Z This poet is inferior to Æschylus and Sophocles, not only in dignity of sentiment, but in the moral tone of his dramas. The Student's Mythology A Compendium of Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Assyrian, Persian, Hindoo, Chinese, Thibetian, Scandinavian, Celtic, Aztec, and Peruvian Mythologies 2011-09-12T02:00:29.450Z For he relates that Callias the Athenian composed a Grammatical Tragedy, from which Euripides in his Medea, and Sophocles in his Œdipus, derived their choruses and the arrangement of their plot. The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us 2011-08-02T02:00:21.843Z My own first approach to Sophocles was at the end of my Junior year in college. The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education 2011-07-19T02:00:17.220Z In most of his dramas is the sublimity of Æschylus with the fine proportion and the directness of Sophocles. Vondel's Lucifer 2011-10-09T02:00:28.557Z In spite of the greater "richness of purview, consideration, and invention" that collaboration undoubtedly bestows, the man of surpassing genius, the great master of the drama, Sophocles or Shakspere or Moli�re, works best alone. A Book About the Theater 2011-07-21T02:00:23.843Z In the tragedy of Sophocles which bears her name, the character of Antig´one is beautifully drawn. The Student's Mythology A Compendium of Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Assyrian, Persian, Hindoo, Chinese, Thibetian, Scandinavian, Celtic, Aztec, and Peruvian Mythologies 2011-09-12T02:00:29.450Z So that it must have been for the sake of the poetical expression that Sophocles said "white marrow." The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us 2011-08-02T02:00:21.843Z Early one morning I went to Sophocles’s room. The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education 2011-07-19T02:00:17.220Z As in Sophocles, we hardly know which most to admire, the balanced proportions of the play, or its general conception. Vondel's Lucifer 2011-10-09T02:00:28.557Z But this is almost equally true of the supreme leaders of dramatic art, Sophocles, Shakspere, and Moli�re. A Book About the Theater 2011-07-21T02:00:23.843Z Nor did Sophocles mean that Antigone and Creon were equally right. Oxford Lectures on Poetry 2011-07-19T02:00:15.897Z For the flutes called elymi, which Sophocles mentions in his Niobe and in his Drummers, we do not understand to be anything but the common Phrygian flute. The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us 2011-08-02T02:00:21.843Z “Professor Sophocles,” I said, “I want to be excused from attending the Greek recitation this afternoon.” The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education 2011-07-19T02:00:17.220Z Balaustion tells him that last year Sophocles was declared by his son to be of unsound mind, and for defence his father just recited a chorus chant of his last play. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z It is a far cry from Buffalo Bill's Wild West to the 'Œdipus' of Sophocles; but they are only opposite ends of a long chain which binds together the heterogeneous medley of so-called "amusements." A Book About the Theater 2011-07-21T02:00:23.843Z It may be illustrated more fully by two examples, favourites of his, taken from Aeschylus and Sophocles. Oxford Lectures on Poetry 2011-07-19T02:00:15.897Z And Sophocles speaks of this triangle in his Mysians, saying— The constant music of the Phrygian Tender triangle, and the concerted strains Of the shrill Lydian pectis sounded too. The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us 2011-08-02T02:00:21.843Z The courtesy of Sophocles was too stately to allow him to turn my friend away, but he seated himself in a shaded window, and kept his head in constant motion. The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education 2011-07-19T02:00:17.220Z What an Olympian attitude was that of the famous translator of Homer, Sophocles, and Theocritus, those geniuses of the past whom he almost seemed to equal! My Recollections 2011-07-16T02:00:14.973Z In �schylus and in Sophocles the number of choral odes and the number of episodes, of purely dramatic passages in dialog, is never fixed, varying from play to play as the plot might demand. A Book About the Theater 2011-07-21T02:00:23.843Z The names stand for the elemental passions, and I can come to them through my own gates of today as well as through the ancient portals of Aischylos or Sophocles or Euripides.” Dramatic Technique 2011-07-04T02:00:19.763Z But Duris, in his treatise on Euripides and Sophocles, says that Alcibiades learnt music, not of any ordinary master, but of Pronomus, who had the very highest reputation in that line. The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us 2011-08-02T02:00:21.843Z “She was up an apple-tree,” said Sophocles, confining himself to the facts of the case. The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education 2011-07-19T02:00:17.220Z It is also in this sense that Sophocles speaks of the Garden of Phœbus, near the vault of heaven, and not far from the sources of the night, i.e. of the setting of the sun. Astronomical Myths Based on Flammarions's History of the Heavens 2011-06-24T02:00:15.873Z Long ago Sophocles said: None cleave to life so fondly as the old, —and this has remained true for all the centuries since. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z "Here Sophocles, there Shakespeare; but I comprehend and appreciate Sophocles more easily," she replied, and looked with new eyes into his new countenance. Titan: A Romance Vol. II (of 2) 2011-06-14T02:00:26.670Z Sophocles also mentions them, in his Shepherds:— There, too, the foreign pelamys does winter, The stranger from the Hellespont. The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us 2011-08-02T02:00:21.843Z He felt the pulse, he examined the tongue, he heard the report of the symptoms, then suddenly asked, “How old are you, Mr. Sophocles?” The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education 2011-07-19T02:00:17.220Z The voice of Sophocles in the chorus of the Electra, and those glorious memories of the early union, were produced to bring back into the circle of the old confederation the erring and rebellious Attica. Trial of the Officers and Crew of the Privateer Savannah, on the Charge of Piracy, in the United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York 2011-06-05T02:00:10.927Z Tears are within the range of a very ordinary writer, but to produce a tragic Cordelia or Antigone is only possible to a Shakespeare or a Sophocles. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z There we are told that Ascham, Cheke, and Watson had many pleasant talks together at Cambridge, comparing the poetic precepts of Aristotle and Horace with the examples of Euripides, Sophocles, and Seneca. A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism 2011-05-30T02:00:13.147Z And Sophocles says— Drinking is a cure for woe. The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us 2011-08-02T02:00:21.843Z To those who had once come close to Sophocles these little reserves, never asserted with impatience, were characteristic and endearing. The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education 2011-07-19T02:00:17.220Z "Nothing," says Sophocles, "is so terrible to man as Fate." Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) 2011-05-28T02:00:21.687Z Homer wrote to be sung, Sophocles to be declaimed, Herodotus to be recited, and Xenophon to be read. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z In the third place, the action of the Troades, an excellent tragedy by Seneca, could not have occurred in one day, nor could even some of the plays of Euripides or Sophocles. A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism 2011-05-30T02:00:13.147Z And Sophocles has the lines— First you shall see the full white ear of corn, And then the large round rosy mulberry. The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us 2011-08-02T02:00:21.843Z “How did you get the name of Sophocles?” The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education 2011-07-19T02:00:17.220Z Sometimes he opened AEschylus, Sophocles, or Euripides, and, translating freely, transported us into a world gone by, but beautiful and human in its passions and sorrows. Daisy Burns (Volume 1) 2011-05-20T02:00:34.097Z There is, however, some trace of justice in making Corneille as related to Racine resemble �schylus as related to Sophocles. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z It was speedily followed by a faithful and spirited translation of the Œdipus of Sophocles, and versions of other Greek writers. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, August, 1851 2011-05-18T02:00:11.200Z In Sophocles too the expression is found— I like a cook will cleverly season . . . . The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us 2011-08-02T02:00:21.843Z But my best schoolmaster was fond of 295 the poet Sophocles, and he was fond of me. The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education 2011-07-19T02:00:17.220Z It was to Sicily that Æschylus retired to die after Sophocles had borne away the prize from him for his tragedy. Cities of the Dawn 2011-05-13T02:00:10.047Z The younger was to the elder somewhat as Sophocles or Euripides was to �schylus, as Virgil was to Lucretius, as Pope was to Dryden. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z Sophocles was more than once elected general, and is reported to have kept his colleagues in good humour by the charm of his conversation through a short but disagreeable campaign. Essays 2011-04-15T02:00:16.160Z But it was Sophocles, my friend, who spoke of Bull's water, in his Ægeus, from the river Taurus near Trœzen, in the neighbourhood of which there is a fountain called Hyoëssa. The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us 2011-08-02T02:00:21.843Z He used to call me his little Sophocles. The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education 2011-07-19T02:00:17.220Z Sophocles represented men as they ought to be, Euripides represented them as they were. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 3: Estremoz to Felspar 2011-04-14T02:00:59.373Z His case repeated the fortune of �schylus in relation to Sophocles. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z Sophocles With that king's-look which down the trees Followed the dark effigies Of the lost Theban. Essays 2011-04-15T02:00:16.160Z And Sophocles, in the Amycus, says— And he places on the table tender jawbones. The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us 2011-08-02T02:00:21.843Z In Cairo, accordingly, there is a branch or agency which during the boyhood of Sophocles was presided over by his Uncle Constantius. The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education 2011-07-19T02:00:17.220Z The truth is that if the tragedies of �schylus and Sophocles are looked upon as models for all Greek tragedy, Euripides falls far short of his models. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 3: Estremoz to Felspar 2011-04-14T02:00:59.373Z Corneille was �schylus; Racine was Sophocles; and, of course, Euripides had his counterpart in Voltaire. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z Sophocles had done this most skilfully in Œdipus Tyrannus, but Ibsen carried the method to perfection in The Wild Duck and Rosmersholm. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde 2011-04-14T02:00:57.977Z And Sophocles the poet, in some one of his works, called a guardian a bolt, saying— Be of good cheer, I am a mighty bolt To keep this fear away from you. The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us 2011-08-02T02:00:21.843Z Thus it happened, by some jocose perversity in the arrangement of human affairs, that throughout our Sophomore and Junior years we sportive youngsters were obliged to endure Sophocles, and Sophocles was obliged to endure us. The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education 2011-07-19T02:00:17.220Z Euripides, however, though he died shortly before Sophocles, belonged to a younger and quite different generation, and held different views about art, morality, religion, and almost everything of importance. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 3: Estremoz to Felspar 2011-04-14T02:00:59.373Z In fact, La Bruy�re’s celebrated comparison of the two Frenchmen—made, of course, before Voltaire—yoked them, Corneille with Sophocles, Racine with Euripides. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z M. Victor Faguet, who had received a prize for a translation of Sophocles into verse, nourished high academic ambitions for his son. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z Euripides is the author from whom Ennius has chiefly borrowed the fables of his tragedies; and when Sophocles and Euripides have treated the same subject, the latter poet has been uniformly preferred. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z After the passage of Herodotus had been duly read, Sophocles began: ‘You must not suppose these men stayed in the Pass because they were brave; they were afraid to run away.’ The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education 2011-07-19T02:00:17.220Z The unities are nearly as closely observed in both as in any drama of Sophocles. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846 2011-04-01T02:00:28.747Z He was full of anxiety, so was I, for in any worker’s life, the loss of steady employment is often a greater tragedy than any Sophocles or Shakespeare ever wrote. All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart 2011-03-31T02:00:16.763Z I carry all matters to an extreme—so that when I have any little vexation, it grows in five minutes into a theme for Sophocles. Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends 2011-03-30T02:00:14.620Z The plots of Sophocles are more complex than those of Æschylus; but the tragedies of Euripides are the most involved of all. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z The universal custom of those days was the hearing of recitations, and to this Sophocles conformed so far as to set a lesson and to call for its translation bit by bit. The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education 2011-07-19T02:00:17.220Z The age of Æschylus has not with us been succeeded by that of Sophocles and Euripides, but by that of melodrama and spectacle. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846 2011-04-01T02:00:28.747Z I had translations of Sophocles and Virgil to do on paper, but it was not till the afternoon that 'Mr. Hare' was called for viva voce. Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 2011-03-20T02:00:26.607Z There was old Blair at one end of the table, hacking at a shoulder of mutton, and talking, as he did so, to Bruce about Sophocles and Euripides. The Haunted Room A Tale 2011-03-10T03:00:46.157Z Sophocles, however, so dialogued this part of the drama, that it has no appearance of a contrivance to instruct, but seems a natural conversation of the dramatis personæ. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z A German commentator had somewhere mentioned lions in connection with the Peloponnesus, and Sophocles inquires of Brown if he knows the date when lions first appeared in the Peloponnesus. The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education 2011-07-19T02:00:17.220Z The interest, dependent entirely on the ardent love of Juliet, is as much undivided as in the Antigone of Sophocles. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846 2011-04-01T02:00:28.747Z Sophocles— 'Tis sad to think, but me the farce of life persuades, That men are only spectral forms, or hollow shades. Cannibals all! or, Slaves without masters 2011-03-06T03:00:21.020Z The Daughters of Pelias was produced in 455, when the poet was twenty-nine, just a year after the death of Aeschylus and thirteen years after the first victory of Sophocles. Euripedes and His Age 2011-03-05T03:00:26.617Z Sophocles had written a tragedy on the topic of the well-known Iphigenia in Aulis of Euripides; but it is the latter piece which has been adopted by the Roman poet. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z These two, Frank and Nina, and all their numerous progeny for many years, Sophocles trained to the hand. The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education 2011-07-19T02:00:17.220Z Throughout life he had to compete with Sophocles, and with other poets who represented tragedy of the type consecrated by tradition. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" 2011-03-05T03:00:24.537Z What do we say to Homer, Plato, Æschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Thucydides, Aristotle, Demosthenes, and the rest of the great Hellenic cluster which these represent! The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe's With Other Essays 2011-03-03T03:00:54.067Z And nineteen of his plays have survived to our own day as against seven each of Aeschylus and Sophocles. Euripedes and His Age 2011-03-05T03:00:26.617Z Iphigenia.—Ennius, as already mentioned, appears invariably to have translated from Euripides, in preference to Sophocles, when the same subject had been treated by both these poets. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z And thus it happened that three times a day, so long as he was able to leave his room, Sophocles went to that house where Radcliffe College is now sheltered to attend his pets. The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education 2011-07-19T02:00:17.220Z The hostile criticism of Aristophanes was witty; and, moreover, it was true, granting the premise from which Aristophanes starts, that the tragedy of Aeschylus and Sophocles is the only right model. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" 2011-03-05T03:00:24.537Z Mar. I like the seat, but 'tis too little, Sophocles Let me have thy opinion, thou hast judgment. Beaumont & Fletcher's Works (8 of 10) The Womans Prize; The Island Princess; The Noble Gentleman; The Coronation; The Coxcomb 2011-02-19T03:01:07.890Z The one is a deliberate protest against the other; unfortunately the play of Sophocles cannot be dated and it is not clear from internal evidence which play was written first. Euripedes and His Age 2011-03-05T03:00:26.617Z Livius Andronicus had formerly written a Latin play on the well-known story of Perseus and Andromeda, which was translated from Sophocles. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z The following day Thornton Senior, walking down the street, was suddenly embarrassed by seeing Sophocles on the same sidewalk. The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education 2011-07-19T02:00:17.220Z In popular literature, too, where Aeschylus and Sophocles were as yet little known, the 16th and 17th centuries testify to the favour bestowed upon Euripides. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" 2011-03-05T03:00:24.537Z Can we then wonder at the enthusiastic language of the Homeric Hymn,81 of Pindar,82 of Sophocles,83 of Aristophanes,84 of Plato,85 of Isocrates,86 of Chrysippus87? Rambles and Studies in Greece 2011-02-18T03:00:16.480Z Sophocles, moving towards a more "natural" and less ritual tragedy, used the divine epiphany comparatively little. Euripedes and His Age 2011-03-05T03:00:26.617Z Most critics have assumed that they could never learn what poetry was unless they gave examples from men like Homer and Shakespeare, Sophocles and Dante, Spenser and Milton. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z “Yes, Mr. Sophocles, a boy generally well-meaning but sometimes thoughtless.” The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education 2011-07-19T02:00:17.220Z Euripides gained the third prize, the first falling to Euphorion, the son of Aeschylus, and the second to Sophocles. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" 2011-03-05T03:00:24.537Z Both Æschylus and Sophocles were great painters of human character, as well in its passions as in its reasonings. Rambles and Studies in Greece 2011-02-18T03:00:16.480Z Euripides' own first victory—we do not know the name of the successful play—did not come till 442, a year before Sophocles' masterpiece, the Antigone. Euripedes and His Age 2011-03-05T03:00:26.617Z Demosthenes was like Plato, a passionate thinker; Pindar, Æschylus and Sophocles were reasoning poets. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z And while her mother was in a far-off invalid retreat, she undertook the battle 373 against fate with the same intelligence and courage which she put into her calculus problems and her translations of Sophocles. The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education 2011-07-19T02:00:17.220Z An unerring instinct keeps both Aeschylus and Sophocles within the limits imposed by this law. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" 2011-03-05T03:00:24.537Z It does not to our judgment suggest Sophocles. The Rhesus of Euripedes 2011-02-06T03:01:01.240Z The story had been treated before Euripides by many poets, including Homer, Stesichorus, Pindar, Aeschylus and possibly—though the dates are not certain—Sophocles. Euripedes and His Age 2011-03-05T03:00:26.617Z This visit was made in 454 B. C. �schylus had died two years before; Sophocles had become famous, and Euripides had just brought out his first play. Studies in the Poetry of Italy, I. Roman 2011-02-06T03:00:58.870Z He edited the Acharnians of Aristophanes, and several of the plays and scholia of Sophocles and Euripides. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" 2011-02-06T03:00:53.093Z Euripides was only fifteen years younger than Sophocles. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" 2011-03-05T03:00:24.537Z Hermann, who collected what he took to be "imitations" of early poets in the Rhesus, noted only 25 of Sophocles, 38 of Aeschylus, and 84 of Euripides. The Rhesus of Euripedes 2011-02-06T03:01:01.240Z After the deed the two murderers come forth as in Sophocles. Euripedes and His Age 2011-03-05T03:00:26.617Z Of the great Greek dramatists read one work of each—say, the Antigone of Sophocles, the Medea of Euripides and the Prometheus of �schylus. Comfort Found in Good Old Books 2011-01-31T03:00:11.907Z We are used to parallels between Sophocles and Ibsen. The Color Line A Brief in Behalf of the Unborn 2011-01-30T03:00:15.907Z The Choephori of Aeschylus and the Electra of Sophocles appear to invite a direct comparison with this drama. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" 2011-03-05T03:00:24.537Z The cruel Athena is Euripidean; but her appearance in the midst of the action is startling, though it may be paralleled from Sophocles' Ajax. The Rhesus of Euripedes 2011-02-06T03:01:01.240Z Aeschylus fought among the heavy-armed infantry, Sophocles danced in a choir of boys to celebrate the victory, and Euripides was born in Salamis on the day of the battle. Euripedes and His Age 2011-03-05T03:00:26.617Z The story of Electra is the subject of the Cho�phori of Aeschylus, the Electra of Sophocles and the Electra of Euripides. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 2 "Ehud" to "Electroscope" 2011-01-29T03:00:23.777Z He published a series of Greek texts, including Aeschylus and Sophocles, just at the end of Columbus' Century, and edited Cicero's "Laws." The Century of Columbus 2011-01-29T03:00:17.380Z Aeschylus and Sophocles, as different exponents of an artistic conception which is fundamentally the same, may be profitably compared; Euripides interprets another conception, and must be tried by other principles. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" 2011-03-05T03:00:24.537Z In practically all the extant plays of AEschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, women are the heroines. Education: How Old The New 2011-01-14T03:00:54.370Z One only wonders that they could stand Sophocles' heroines, such as Antigone and Jocasta. Euripedes and His Age 2011-03-05T03:00:26.617Z Sophocles was a handsome youth, and acquitted himself well in the pal�stra. Greek Sculpture A collection of sixteen pictures of Greek marbles with introduction and interpretation 2011-01-05T03:01:01.227Z Although known as a specialist on the historian Thucydides and the Peloponnesian War, she wrote dozens of books on philosophy and political thought in ancient Greece, on the tragedians Aeschylus and Sophocles, and on Homer. Jacqueline de Romilly, Studied Greek Culture, Dies at 97 2010-12-21T02:38:57Z It is to be remembered that, as a selection, the nine chosen plays of Euripides correspond to those seven of Aeschylus and those seven of Sophocles which alone remain to us. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" 2011-03-05T03:00:24.537Z Euripides, the feminist as he has been called, has shown us, as feminists ever, more of the worst side of women than his greater predecessors AEschylus and Sophocles. Education: How Old The New 2011-01-14T03:00:54.370Z His first book, which established his reputation, was “Oedipus at Thebes: Sophocles’ Tragic Hero and His Time.” Bernard Knox, 95, Classics Scholar, Dies 2010-08-17T03:28:00Z From this time forth Sophocles continually grew in dramatic and literary power. Greek Sculpture A collection of sixteen pictures of Greek marbles with introduction and interpretation 2011-01-05T03:01:01.227Z One play cited as appropriate for high school students is “Oedipus Rex,” by Sophocles. National Academic Standards Are Released 2010-06-02T16:02:00Z He was compared with Aeschylus and Sophocles as representatives of that ideal Greek tragedy which ranges with the purest type of sculpture. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" 2011-03-05T03:00:24.537Z The story formed the subject of lost tragedies by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides and other Greek and Latin dramatists. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" In the vigorous prime of Greek poetry, so late even as the age of Sophocles and Herodotus, there was a real belief in the personal existence and active agency of these supernatural beings. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil Here is Sophocles, the greatest dramatic poet of antiquity, a magnificent specimen of symmetrically developed manhood. Greek Sculpture A collection of sixteen pictures of Greek marbles with introduction and interpretation 2011-01-05T03:01:01.227Z Others, like Sophocles, described the return voyage as differing from the outward course only in taking the northern instead of the southern shore of the Euxine. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" Here Æschylus and Euripides had their first nights—or days, perhaps, for I believe they were mostly matinees—and Sophocles, too, and here it was that the naughty Aristophanes burlesqued them with his biting parodies. The Ship Dwellers A Story of a Happy Cruise She used to give the morning to the Greek Testament and afterwards read select orations of Isocrates and the tragedies of Sophocles. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" In that which is Virgil’s strength, sympathy with the primary human affections, it would have been impossible for any poet who came after them to have surpassed Homer, Sophocles, or Lucretius. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil Libraries were appropriately decorated with statues of poets, and we fancy that our statue of Sophocles was made for such a purpose. Greek Sculpture A collection of sixteen pictures of Greek marbles with introduction and interpretation 2011-01-05T03:01:01.227Z He edited Hesiod, Pindar, Aeschylus, Sophocles and other authors; but his chief fame rests on his critical and exegetical edition of Homer, practically the foundation of our present recension. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" The legend forms the subject of tragedies by Euripides and Sophocles, and Ovid introduced it into his Metamorphoses. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli In 468 B.C. he was defeated by Sophocles, and then is said to have gone to the Court of Hiero, King of Syracuse. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 1 A to Amide Virgil assigns to Pollio the praise of alone composing poems ‘worthy of the buskin of Sophocles.’ The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil Between the calm dignity of the portrait statue of Sophocles and the intense muscular concentration of Myron's Discobolus, a long range of degrees may be included. Greek Sculpture A collection of sixteen pictures of Greek marbles with introduction and interpretation 2011-01-05T03:01:01.227Z Again, in regard to Antigone’s tragic end Sophocles differs from Euripides, according to whom the calamity was averted by the intercession of Dionysus and was followed by the marriage of Antigone and Haemon. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" To which are added, the Lyric Parts of the "Medea" of Euripides and the "Antigone" of Sophocles; with Rhythmical Scheme and Commentary. Dante. An essay. To which is added a translation of De Monarchia. This is the subject of Sophocles' tragedy Ajax. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 1 A to Amide Yet all feel that the Aeneid is much inferior to the Homeric poems in natural human interest, as it is much inferior in reflective interest to the greatest extant dramas of Aeschylus and Sophocles. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil One of the greatest of Greek writers was the tragic poet Sophocles. Greek Sculpture A collection of sixteen pictures of Greek marbles with introduction and interpretation 2011-01-05T03:01:01.227Z He almost learned the translations of Thucydides and Sophocles, of Horace and Cicero. Sinister Street, vol. 1 I made a serious attempt to finish my German essay:--"Comparison between the Antigone of Sophocles and the Iphigenia of Goethe," but what were either of these Hecubas to me? Barbarossa and Other Tales In the Electra of Sophocles there is throughout the play the most confused notion of the locality; compare Elmsley ad Eurip. The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 1 of 2 And Virgil’s conception is at once more impassioned than that of Sophocles, and nobler and more womanly than those of Euripides. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil In the celebration of this victory at Athens, Sophocles led with dance and lyre the chorus of young men who sang the p�an or hymn of victory. Greek Sculpture A collection of sixteen pictures of Greek marbles with introduction and interpretation 2011-01-05T03:01:01.227Z Socrates and Plato and Sophocles are religious teachers from whom we have all directly or indirectly learned, whether we know it or not. The Sources Of Religious Insight Being at this time to act the 'Electra' of Sophocles at Athens, it was his part to carry an urn as containing the bones of Orestes. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 The splendid, untrammelled, and exuberant hexameters of Homer, the stanzas of Sappho, the iambics of Sophocles, furnished them with unspeakable pleasure, which did the greatest harm to the music of a certain Wagner. Underground Man But in Homer this sympathy is combined with a sterner, in Sophocles with a severer mood. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil Sophocles now came forward with his first tragedy, and so remarkable was it found to be that the judges pronounced him victor. Greek Sculpture A collection of sixteen pictures of Greek marbles with introduction and interpretation 2011-01-05T03:01:01.227Z If we had the 200 plays of Aeschylus, the 160 of Sophocles, the last books of Livy, the missing annals of Tacitus, which this library held, the stature of these writers would not be increased. The Library and Society Reprints of Papers and Addresses He is a very intelligent and learned literary man, who principally excels in the art of Sophocles and Euripides, and after these great models he has framed his tragedies. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 He worked at his 'Fables,' wrote a play on the Greek models, 'Philotas,' began a life of Sophocles, and edited and translated several works of minor importance. The Dramatic Works of G. E. Lessing Miss Sara Sampson, Philotas, Emilia Galotti, Nathan the Wise But the Dido of Virgil may compare favourably with the creations of greater masters,—with the Deianeira of Sophocles, with the Phaedra and the Medea of Euripides. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil This was the age of great Greek literature, when �schylus, Sophocles, and Euripides wrote their immortal dramas. Greek Sculpture A collection of sixteen pictures of Greek marbles with introduction and interpretation 2011-01-05T03:01:01.227Z But he taught me to revere that grandest and most powerful of tragedians, Sophocles. Fragments of an Autobiography In the first place, the heinousness of the crime, and even the imagination of such an impiety, are purely antique, as, in truth, the fact itself is on classical record in the "Antigone" of Sophocles. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 355, May 1845 It is to be found touched on in the tragedies of Sophocles and Euripides, and but touched on. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 But on the other hand, the faith of Virgil is less noble than that of Aeschylus and of Sophocles. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil Baïf then turned to the new theatre, which his comrade Jodelle had introduced, and translated or adapted several plays of Plautus, Terence, and Sophocles, but these will be noticed elsewhere. A Short History of French Literature As a scholar he is best known by his work on Sophocles and Plato. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" Herodotus and Livy, Froissart and Hall and Holinshed, are as great in their own departments as Sophocles or Terence or Shakespeare. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15 An English translator might better undertake Euripides than Sophocles, and Sophocles than Æschylus. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 Fathers and Sons is as beautifully constructed as a drama of Sophocles; the events move inevitably to a tragic close. An Outline of Russian Literature The Philhellenists came down in great force, and young Greeks, Sophocles and Ionides, and many more screaming at the top of their voices, were there as well. The Night Side of London Sophocles afterwards added a third actor, by which change the preponderance of the dialogue was made complete. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" He is neither thoroughly chivalrous like Tasso and Ariosto, nor thoroughly Grecian like Sophocles and Euripides, nor thoroughly French like Corneille and Racine. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 359, September 1845 |
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