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Soph·o·cles

(sŏf′ə-klēz′) 496?-406 bc.
Greek dramatist whose Oedipus Rex was described by Aristotle as the perfect tragedy. Among his other surviving plays are Ajax and Antigone.

Soph′o·cle′an adj.
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Sophocles

(ˈsɒfəˌkliːz)
n
(Biography) ?496–406 bc, Greek dramatist; author of seven extant tragedies: Ajax, Antigone, Oedipus Rex, Trachiniae, Electra, Philoctetes, and Oedipus at Colonus
Sophoclean adj
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Soph•o•cles

(ˈsɒf əˌkliz)

n.
495?–406? B.C., Greek playwright.
Soph`o•cle′an, adj.
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Sophocles

[ˈsɒfəkliːz] NSófocles
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Sophocles

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Sophocles

[ˈsɒfəˌkliːz] nSofocle m
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Freud's first known reference to Oedipus occurs in a letter he wrote at age 16, dated March 17, 1873, stating that he plans to read this Sophoclean tragedy in the original Greek.
Arnold in "Pagan and Mediaeval Religious Sentiment" (1864) expressed a broader view of "faith" exemplified in Sophoclean tragedy.
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Indeed, he does not seem to be sincerely interested in recovering his father's goods and properties, as both the Aeschylean and Sophoclean heroes keenly are.
There is another interesting remark in the opening lines of the same Sophoclean tragedy when the sisters are discussing the law of the land that forbids the burial of their brother Polyneices.
Among those that would follow his now classic work is Sara Uribe's Antigona Gonzalez (2012), (1) a book-length dramatic poem that draws once again on the Sophoclean tragedy to re-enact the living hell experienced by those victimized by the violence and uncertainty that have characterized Mexican reality during the U.S.-backed drug war in Mexico.
Interspecies Ethics is accessible for readers with many backgrounds, in spite or perhaps because of her wide-ranging engagements with ethology, neurobiology, social movements, fiction, Sophoclean tragedy and African call and response traditions, as well as with philosophical ethics from Kant and Hegel and of course Bentham, to Merleau-Ponty, Derrida, Haraway, Kristeva, and Deleuze and Guattari.