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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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Ajax was 'the most popular play by Sophokles in the Renaissance', (17) and Ajax himself, arguably second only to Achilles among the Greek heroes, was a very popular figure on the early modern English stage.
6.39-45 en 55 en Sophokles, OC 668-719; Irwin (1974:4 n.4 met verwysing na Bowra) wys op Simonides se lewensgetroue gebruik van kleur, ook as die eerste om Kuavsoc van die see te gebruik (alhoewel dit onseker is of die kleur 'blou' daarmee verband hou).
Perhaps Straub-Huillet's Die Antigone des Sophokles nach der Holderlinschen Ubertragung fur die Buhne bearbeitet von Brecht 1948 (The Antigone of Sophocles After Holderlin's Translation Adapted for the Stage by Brecht 1948, 1 992) offers a clue to their "political" aesthetics.
(60) In Sophokles' Antigone, the chorus refers to Dionysos himself as "lord Iakchos," and even in ancient times there seems to have been a conflation or confusion between the two.
In hierdie drama bied Heaney 'n weergawe van die mite wat ons uit Sophokles se drama Philoktetos leer ken.
"The Self-Blinding of Oidipous in Sophokles: Oidipous Tyrannos." JHS 93: 36-49.
Balaustion prefaces her version with what Ezra Pound celebrated as a benign, permissive theory of influence: (34) Still, since one thing may have so many sides, I think I see how,--far from Sophokles,-- You, I, or anyone might mould a new Admetos, new Alkestis.
Ons lees Shakespeare, Dante, Sophokles en ander grotes eeue na hulle geleef het nog steeds omdat hulle werke onvoltooi is, vol oop plekke, hoe afgerond dit ook al is.

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