In Sophocles ' play Ajax, a famous retelling of Ajax's demise takes place — after the armor is awarded to Odysseus the hero Ajax falls to the ground, exhausted.

* The Antigone, one of the three extant Theban plays by Sophocles ( 497 BC – 406 BC )-The most famous adaptation

When Hauser delivered the new instrument Segovia had ordered, Segovia passed his 1928 Hauser to his U. S. representative and close friend Sophocles Papas, who gave it to his classical guitar student, the famous jazz and classical guitarist Charlie Byrd, who used it on several records.

Winckelmann had read Homer, Herodotus, Sophocles, Xenophon, and Plato, but he found at Nöthnitz the works of such famous Enlightenment writers as Voltaire and Montesquieu.

Plutarch, in the Life of Cimon, recounts his first triumph of the young talented Sophocles against the famous and hitherto unchallenged Aeschylus, which ended in an unusual manner, without the usual draw for the referees, and that caused the voluntary exile of Aeschylus Sicily.

Near the amphitheatre was found in 1838 the famous marble bust of Sophocles, now in the Lateran Museum, Rome.

* Antigone ( Sophocles ), the famous play by Sophocles

Aeschylus and Sophocles were innovative, but Euripides had arrived at a position in the " ever-changing genre " where he could move easily between tragic, comic, romantic and political effects, a versatility that appears in individual plays and also over the course of his career.

However, " his plays continued to be applauded even after those of Aeschylus and Sophocles had come to seem remote and irrelevant ", they became school classics in the Hellenistic period ( as mentioned in the introduction ) and, due to Seneca's adaptation of his work for Roman audiences, " it was Euripides, not Aeschylus or Sophocles, whose tragic muse presided over the rebirth of tragedy in Renaissance Europe.

In fact, the very existence of the Alphabet plays, or rather the absence of an equivalent edition for Sophocles and Aeschylus, could distort our notions of distinctive Euripidean qualitiesmost of his least ' tragic ' plays are in the Alphabet edition and possibly the other two tragedians would appear just as genre-bending as this " restless experimenter " if we possessed more than their ' select ' editions.

In pursuit of the retrieval of this question, Heidegger spent considerable time reflecting on ancient Greek thought, in particular on Plato, Parmenides, Heraclitus, and Anaximander, as well as on the tragic playwright Sophocles.

From its obscure origins in the theaters of Athens 2, 500 years ago, from which there survives only a fraction of the work of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, through its singular articulations in the works of Shakespeare, Lope de Vega, Racine, and Schiller, to the more recent naturalistic tragedy of Strindberg, Beckett's modernist meditations on death, loss and suffering, and Müller's postmodernist reworkings of the tragic canon, tragedy has remained an important site of cultural experimentation, negotiation, struggle, and change.

The Greek tragic authors ( Sophocles and Euripides ) would become increasingly important as models by the middle of the 17th century.

In his essay " Hegel's Theory of Tragedy ," A. C. Bradley first introduced the English-speaking world to Hegel's theory, which Bradley called the " tragic collision ", and contrasted against the Aristotelian notions of the " tragic hero " and his or her " hamartia " in subsequent analyses of the Aeschylus ' Oresteia trilogy and of Sophocles ' Antigone.

* Sophocles ' tragic play Oedipus at Colonus is performed posthumously.

In his play Peace, Aristophanes imagined that the tragic poet Sophocles had turned into Simonides: " He may be old and decayed, but these days, if you paid him enough, he'd go to sea in a sieve.

* Sophocles: A renowned tragic poet, he wrote a play Tereus that is the basis for The Hoopoe's unfortunate appearance ( line 100 ).

Sophocles, a tragic playwright similar to Aeschylus, and who had died recently is referenced several times as a worthy playwright.

* Philocles: A tragic poet ( who won first prize when Sophocles competed with Oedipus Rex ), yet satirized by comic poets for a harsh style, he is said in line 462 to have an embittering influence on old men.

It is named after Sophocles, the ancient Greek tragic dramatist.

The innovations introduced Sophocles, and that earned him at least twenty triumphs, were in many aspects of the tragic representation, the most insignificant details ( like the white shoes and curved sticks ) to reform denser consequences.

Large-scale production tragic Democratic dell ' Atene there remained only a few plays of three authors: Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides.

Milton continues, " Of the style and uniformity, and that commonly called the plot, whether intricate or explicit ... they only will best judge who are not unacquainted with Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the three tragic poets unequaled yet by any, and the best rule to all who endeavor to write tragedy ".

428 BC – 405 BC ) was a Greek tragic poet and son of Sophocles.

Aristarchus or Aristarch of Tegea was a contemporary of Sophocles and Euripides, who lived to be a centenarian, composed seventy pieces and won two tragic victories.

He brought the tragic drama of Freud and the psychology of Sophocles to detective stories, and his prose flashed with poetic imagery.

Alfred and H. Buxton Forman, on the other hand, praised The Cenci as a " tragic masterpiece ", elevating Shelley into the company of Sophocles, Euripides, and Shakespeare.

The Greek tragic authors ( Sophocles and Euripides ) would become increasingly important by the middle of the century.

Like Euripides, both Aeschylus and Sophocles created comic effects contrasting the heroic with the mundane but they employed minor supporting characters for that purpose whereas the younger poet was more insistent, using major characters too.

Sophocles was appreciative enough of the younger poet to be influenced by him, as is evident in his later plays Philoctetes and Oedipus at Colonus.

* Antigone, adaptation of Sophocles ' play by Peruvian poet José Watanabe ( b. 1946 )

The Roman poet Statius recounts a differing version of Creon's assumption of power from that followed by Sophocles, in his late first century epic, the Thebaid.

A more recent critic connects the two as artists, Sophocles the tragedian, Arnold the lyric poet, each attempting to transform this note of sadness into " a higher order of experience ".

Some of the most important figures of Western cultural and intellectual history lived in Athens during this period: the dramatists Aeschylus, Aristophanes, Euripides and Sophocles, the physician Hippocrates, the philosophers Aristotle, Plato and Socrates, the historians Herodotus, Thucydides and Xenophon, the poet Simonides and the sculptor Phidias, The leading statesman of this period was Pericles, who used the tribute paid by the members of the Delian League to build the Parthenon and other great monuments of classical Athens.

Williams is also an acclaimed translator, notably of Sophocles ’ Women of Trachis and Euripides ’ The Bacchae, as well as of the Polish poet Adam Zagajewski and the French poet Francis Ponge.

Shakespeare is closer to Sophocles than he is to Pope and Voltaire.

There are several reasons throughout myth for such wrath: in Aeschylus ' play Agamemnon, Artemis is angry for the young men who will die at Troy, whereas in Sophocles ' Electra, Agamemnon has slain an animal sacred to Artemis, and subsequently boasted that he was Artemis ' equal in hunting.

The identity of the threesome is neatly underscored by a patriotic account of their roles during Greece's great victory over Persia at the Battle of SalamisAeschylus fought there, Sophocles was just old enough to celebrate the victory in a boys ' chorus and Euripides was born on the very day of the battle.

The debt may have been repaid by Sophocles because there appear to be echoes of The Histories in his plays, especially a passage in Antigone that resembles Herodotus's account of the death of Intaphernes ( Histories 3. 119 ~ Antigone 904-20 )-this however is one of the most contentious issues in modern scholarship.

In Sophocles ' Oedipus Rex, while on the road to Thebes, Oedipus meets King Laius of Thebes who is unknown to him as his biological father.

The goddess is described as wearing oak in fragments of Sophocles ' lost play The Root Diggers ( or The Root Cutters ), and an ancient commentary on Apollonius of Rhodes ' Argonautica ( 3. 1214 ) describes her as having a head surrounded by serpents, twining through branches of oak.

One of the figurations assumed by the river god Achelous in wooing Deianira is as a man with the head of a bull, according to Sophocles ' Trachiniai.

The poem is not about World War I, but it does try to address the relationships between destruction and beauty, and, in this sense, it resonates with ancient Greek meditations on these matters, especially in the plays of Sophocles and Aeschylus.

Archaic and Classic Greek literature seem to make no further mention of Pandora, though Sophocles wrote a satyr play Pandora, or The Hammerers of which virtually nothing is known.

The three Theban plays, or Oedipus cycle, by Sophocles, originating in 5th century BC, is not a true example of a trilogy because the plays were written at separate times and with different themes / purposes.

* 496 BC: Sophocles is born

One of the oldest depictions of civil disobedience is in Sophocles ' play Antigone, in which Antigone, one of the daughters of former King of Thebes, Oedipus, defies Creon, the current King of Thebes, who is trying to stop her from giving her brother Polynices a proper burial.

A Peleus by Sophocles is lost.

The text is an excellent German translation, by Friedrich Hölderlin, of the Sophocles play of the same name.

" His career coincided with the ascendency of dramatic styles of poetry, as embodied in the works of Aeschylus or Sophocles, and he is in fact one of the last poets of major significance within the more ancient tradition of purely lyric poetry.

It is produced by his grandson ( also called Sophocles ) at the Festival of Dionysus in Athens.

Though his work ranged from high drama to absurdist farce, Anouilh is best known for his 1943 play Antigone, an adaptation of Sophocles ' classical drama, that was seen as an attack on Marshal Pétain's Vichy government.

Though the playwright romanticizes Antigone's sense of honor and duty to what is morally right, in this case resisting the Nazi forces, it can also be said that Anouilh, like Sophocles before him, makes a convincing argument for Creon ’ s method of leadership.

Antigonae is in Orff's words a " musical setting " for the Greek tragedy by Sophocles of the same name.

Antigone (, ) is a tragedy by Sophocles written in or before 441 BC.