SOPHOCLES Definition & Meaning

Sophocles

[ sof-uh-kleez ]

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noun

495?–406? b.c., Greek dramatist.

Sophocles

/ ˈsɒfəˌkliːz; ˌsɒfəˈkliːən /

noun

Sophocles?496 bc406 bcMGreekTHEATRE: dramatist ?496–406 bc , Greek dramatist; author of seven extant tragedies: Ajax, Antigone, Oedipus Rex, Trachiniae, Electra, Philoctetes , and Oedipus at Colonus

Sophocles

An ancient Greek poet, author of Oedipus Rexand Antigone. He is counted, with Euripides and Aeschylus , among the great Greek authors of tragedies .

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Derived Forms

Sophoclean, adjective

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Other 51�Թ� Forms

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The Black prisoners of “The Island” turn to Sophocles’ “Antigone” to understand the injustice of their own situation.

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Even Aristotle, who could be said to have launched literary criticism, set forth the precepts of tragedy by empirically studying the indelible examples of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides.

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In the years that followed, Maclin immersed himself in “Jitney” by August Wilson and Sophocles’ “Oedipus Rex.”

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Fish told BBC News it was a "thrilling challenge to work on Sophocles' tragedy", adding that Carson's translation "explodes the question of what is ancient and what is contemporary".

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In 441 B.C., the Athenian playwright Sophocles told a similar tale in “Antigone,” whose plot centers on an autocrat’s weaponization of a corpse killed in battle.

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