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.

* Ajax ( Sophocles ), a play by the ancient Greek tragedian Sophocles

The original Greek chorus sang its part in Greek drama, and fragments of works by Euripides ( Orestes ) and Sophocles ( Ajax ) are known from papyri.

Menelaus appears as a character in a number of 5th-century Greek tragedies: Sophocles ' Ajax, and Euripides ' Andromache, Helen, Orestes, Iphigenia at Aulis, and The Trojan Women.

Another tradition, followed by Sophocles in his play Ajax and by Euripides in the lost play Kressai, was that Catreus found Aerope in bed with a slave and sent her to Nauplius to be drowned.

* Sophocles, The Ajax of Sophocles.

According to the tradition followed by Sophocles in his play Ajax and by Euripides in his lost play Cretan Women ( Kressai ), Catreus found Aerope in bed with a slave and handed her over to Nauplius to be drowned, but Nauplius spared Aerope's life and she married Atreus, the son of Pelops, and king of Mycenae, though in the version of the story used by Euripides, she married Pleisthenes instead.

* Sophocles, The Ajax of Sophocles.

In Sophocles ’ Ajax, Tecmessa attempts to stop Ajax from committing suicide, although she is unsuccessful.

In Sophocles ' tragedy Ajax, the protagonist hands the shield to his son before committing suicide.

* 1960 – 61: Ajax ( Sophocles )

Lobeck's edition of the Ajax of Sophocles ( 1809 ) had gained him a reputation a scholar and critic ; his Phrynichus ( 1820 ), Paralipomena grammaticae Graecae ( vol.

* Sophocles ' Philoctetes, Electra, Trachiniae, Ajax ( 1880 )-- all with English commentary and forming part of the Bibliotheca classica

" Faber further noted errors in Zimmern's work, ( for example in Aphorism 61 where Schaf ( sheep ) is translated by Zimmern as fool where the reference is to Sophocles ' play Ajax in which the hero charges a herd of sheep )-and bowdlerizations.

* Ajax, circa 450-430 BCE tragedy by Sophocles

Sophocles lets us hear the speech Ajax gives immediately before his suicide ( which, unlike in most Greek tragedies, where action and death are reported, is called for to take place onstage ), in which he calls for vengeance against the sons of Atreus ( Menelaus and Agamemnon ) and the whole Greek army.

The central theme to Sophocles ' Ajax is the values of living and dying.

* The Ajax of Sophocles

The event is held once every three years and is a tradition which started in 1882 with the Ajax of Sophocles.

Motifs may also be used to establish mood ( as the blood motif in Shakespeare's Macbeth ), for foreshadowing ( as when Mary Shelley, in Frankenstein, mentions the moon almost every time the creature is about to appear ), to support the theme ( as when, in Sophocles ' drama Oedipus Rex, the motif of prophecy strengthens the theme of the irresistibility of the gods ), or for other purposes.

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.

Sophocles wants to warn his countrymen about hubris, or arrogance, because he knows this will be their downfall.

It is he rather than Helenus ( as suggested in Sophocles ' Philoctetes ) that predicts that Troy will only fall once the Argives are able to recruit Philoctetes.

Sophocles, a 5th century BC Greek playwright who wrote tragedies on fate and the will of the gods, also heard this sound as he stood upon the shore of the Aegean Sea.

Of the ART's 31st season, Artistic Director Diane Paulus said, " I promise that our 2010 / 2011 season will be another year of theatrical events — from rock stars to a robot chorus, mosh pits to the geodesic dome, Sophocles to Lewis Carroll — there will be something for everyone.

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 ".

* Sophocles: A famous tragic poet, he is mentioned here because his verses are evocative of the good times that will come with peace ( line 531 ) even though he has become as greedy as Simonides ( 695-7 ).

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 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.

Its object was to avert the nemesis of the dead, who were supposed to have the power of punishing the living, if their cult had been in any way neglected ( Sophocles, Electra, 792 ; E. Rohde, Psyche, 1907, i. 236, note I ).

Jorge Ferreira de Vasconcellos had produced in " Eufrosina " the first prose play, but the comedies of Sá and Antonio Ferreira are artificial and stillborn productions, though the latter's tragedy, " Ignez de Castro ", if dramatically weak, has something of Sophocles in the spirit and form of the verse.

The elaborate, if archaic, language she used and the abundance of references to Homer's Iliad ( in addition to those to Sophocles, Euripides and Demosthenes ) clearly show the high level of classical education of the author.

Trygaeus apologizes to Peace on behalf of his countrymen, he updates her on the latest theatre gossip ( Sophocles is now as venal as Simonides and Cratinus died in a drunken apoplexy ) and then he leaves her to enjoy her freedom while he sets off again for Athens, taking Harvest and Festival back with him-Harvest because she is now his betrothed, Festival because she is to be female entertainment for the Boule or Council.

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.

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

It was written shortly before Sophocles ' death in 406 BC and produced by his grandson ( also called Sophocles ) at the Festival of Dionysus in 401 BC.

In the timeline of the plays, the events of Oedipus at Colonus occur after Oedipus the King and before Antigone ; however, it was chronologically the last of Sophocles ' three Theban plays to be written.

Niobe was possibly a play by Sophocles that was performed shortly before Wasps.

It is unclear whether it was first produced before or after Sophocles ' version of the Electra story.

It is said that Iophon accused his father before the court of the phratores of being incapable of managing his affairs, so that he might gain the guardianship of his father's fortune, to which Sophocles replied by reading the chorus of the Oedipus at Colonus ( 688 ff.

This was called the war of the Epigonoi (" the offspring, the next generation "); the story had been told, before Sophocles, in the lost epic Epigonoi.