41. Enjoying "Oedipus The King" By Sophocles An overview of the legend, the play, and major themes of Oedipus Rex by Ed Friedlander. http://www.pathguy.com/oedipus.htm

Enjoying "Oedipus the King", by Sophocles Ed Friedlander MD erf@kcumb.edu If you are a student assigned to read "Oedipus the King", and perhaps also to comment on Aristotle's ideas about tragedy and "tragic flaws", this site will help you get started. Warning: This is NOT a "family" site, and Sophocles is NOT "family entertainment". "Oedipus the King" is a monument to Sophocles's dramatic genius, and to the freedom of Athenian thought. It develops a shocking, profoundly immoral idea about a human being's ultimate relationship to the universe. Thankfully, there is no reason to think that Sophocles's idea is true, or that Sophocles really believed it. Commentators on Sophocles, beginning with Aristotle, have tried to cover over the obvious. This explains the nonsense about "tragic flaws" and "hybris". If you want something nice, please leave now What's here? 1. The Folk Tale 2. Predestination 3. Sophocles 4. Aristotle ... 5. Today 1. The Folk Tale We don't know whether there was a historical Oedipus. "Oedipus" means "swollen feet". The Greeks pronounced it "oy-DEEP-us". Oed- is the same root as "oedema / edema" (tissue swelling; the British preserve the initial "o"), while "-pus" is feet (hence "octopus", the eight-footed animal.) Laius and Jocasta were king and queen of Thebes, a town in Greece. One day, they had a baby boy. An oracle prophesied that the boy would grow up and kill his father and marry his mother. To thwart the prophecy, Laius and Jocasta decided to kill their baby. In those days, it was usual to leave an unwanted or defective baby in the wilderness. Laius and Jocasta did this. To be extra-sure, they pierced his little feet and tied them together. (Don't worry about this detail, which makes no sense. It must have been introduced to explain the hero's name.)

42. Sophocles: A Mythic Life The facts of sophocles life are difficult to separate from legend. According to one version of his death, the ninetyyear-old dramatist was giving a public http://www.amrep.org/past/antigone/antigone3.html

ANTIGONE Where to? Season 2007-08 ART Home ARTblog ARTicles bookstore box office calendar contact us connections directions employment institute links we like loeb drama ctr media guide mission/history people posters restaurants search site guide zero arrow Ticket Services * exchange * group sales * student pass * subscriptions Support the ART ART Home Sophocles, as depicted in a Roman portrait bust Sophocles: A Mythic Life by Helen Shaw The facts of Sophocles' life are difficult to separate from legend. According to one version of his death, the ninety-year-old dramatist was giving a public reading of Antigone when he tried and failed to recite a fatally long sentence in a single breath. Similar myths surround the final moments of the other Athenian playwrights; Euripides was eaten by a pack of wild dogs, and Aeschylus was killed by a falling turtle, dropped by an eagle who mistook the tragedian's bald head for a rock. But of the three, Sophocles lived most fully in the public eye, and more details of his biography were recorded than of almost any other figure in Periclean Athens. Born in about 496 BC to a wealthy factory-owner in the Athenian suburb of Colonus, Sophocles encountered fame at an early age. At fifteen he led an official dance to celebrate the Athenian victory at the battle of Salamis, wearing nothing but a pair of sandals and playing a lyre. Boys chosen for this role were picked according to criteria of both talent and physical beauty, so the young Sophocles must have been an attractive youth.

43. Sophocles - Definition From The Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary Definition of sophocles from the MerriamWebster Online Dictionary with audio pronunciations, thesaurus, Word of the Day, and word games. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sophocles

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44. Sophocles Quotes A collection of quotes from the plays of sophocles. http://www.notable-quotes.com/s/sophocles_quotes.html

Browse quotes by subject Browse quotes by author SOPHOCLES QUOTES Unwanted favours gain no gratitude. SOPHOCLES, Oedipus at Colonus I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State; and as for the man who sets private friendship above the public welfare I have no use for him either. SOPHOCLES, Antigone The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves. SOPHOCLES, Oedipus Rex What people believe prevails over the truth. SOPHOCLES, The Sons of Aleus [fragment] Each one of us must live the life God gives him; it cannot be shirked. SOPHOCLES, Philoctetes The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown. Nothing is impossible. SOPHOCLES, Ajax Nothing abides; the starry night, our wealth, our sorrows, pass away. SOPHOCLES, Women of Trachis A man is nothing but breath and shadow. SOPHOCLES, Ajax the Locrian [fragment] Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver. SOPHOCLES

45. Oedipus Trilogy By Sophocles - Project Gutenberg Download the free eBook Oedipus Trilogy by sophocles. http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/31

Online Book Catalog Quick Search Author: Title Word(s): EText-No.: Advanced Search Recent Books Top 100 Offline Catalogs ... Main Page Project Gutenberg needs your donation! More Info Did you know that you can help us produce ebooks by proof-reading just one page a day? Go to: Distributed Proofreaders Oedipus Trilogy by Sophocles Help Read online Bibliographic Record Creator Sophocles, 495? BC-406 BC Translator Storr, Francis, 1839-1919 Title Oedipus Trilogy Note Three Greek plays Contents Oedipus The King Contents Oedipus at Colonus Contents Antigone Language English LoC Class PA: Language and Literatures: Classical Languages and Literature Subject Classics Subject Drama EText-No. Release Date Base Directory /files/31/ Download this ebook for free Formats Available For Download Format Encoding ¹ Compression Size Download Links Plucker none unknown main site HTML none 242 KB main site mirror sites HTML zip 93 KB main site mirror sites Plain text us-ascii none 235 KB main site mirror sites Plain text us-ascii zip 92 KB main site mirror sites ¹ If you need a special character set, try our online recoding service

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48. Sophocles - LoveToKnow 1911 sophocles (4954 06 B.C.), Greek tragic poet, was born at Colonus in the neighbourhood of Athens. His father s name was Sophillus; and the family http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Sophocles

Sophocles From LoveToKnow 1911 SOPHOCLES (495-4 06 B.C.), Greek tragic poet, was born at Colonus in the neighbourhood of Athens . His father's name was Sophillus; and the family burial -place is said to have been about a mile and a half from the city on the Decelean Way. The date assigned for the poet's birth is in accordance with the tale that young Sophocles, then a pupil of the musician Lamprus, was chosen to lead the chorus of boys in the celebration of the victory of Salamis (480(480 B.C.). The time of his death is fixed by the allusions to it in the Frogs of Aristophanes and in the Muses, a lost play of Phrynichus , the comic poet, which were both produced in 405 B.C., shortly before the capture of Athens. And the legend which implies that Lysander allowed him funeral honours is one of those which, like the story of Alexander and Pindar's house at Thebes , we can at least wish to be founded on fact, though we should probably substitute Agis for Lysander. Apart from tragic victories, the event of Sophocles' life most fully authenticated is his appointment at the age of fifty-five as one of the generals who served with Pericles in the Samian War (440-439 B.C.). Conjecture has been rife as to the possibility of his here improving acquaintance with

49. New Page 2 The translator would like to acknowledge the extremely valuable help provided by Andrew Brown’s edition of sophocles’ Antigone (Aris Philips, 1987), http://www.mala.bc.ca/~johnstoi/sophocles/antigone.htm

Sophocles Antigone 442 BC Translator's Note . For comments or question please contact Ian Johnston This translation is available in the form of a published paperback book from Richer Resources Publications This text is available in the form of a Publisher file for those who would like to print it off as a small book. There is no charge for these files. For details, please use the following link: Publisher files The translator would like to acknowledge the extremely valuable help provided by Andrew Brown’s edition of Sophocles’ Antigone Note that in this translation the numbers in square brackets refer to the Greek text, and the numbers with no brackets refer to this text. The asterisks in the text are links to explanatory notes at the end. This text was last revised in May 2005. Background Note to the Story When Oedipus, King of Thebes, discovered through his own investigations that he had killed his father and married his mother, Jocasta, he put out his own eyes, and Jocasta killed herself. Once Oedipus ceased being king of Thebes, his two sons, Polyneices and Eteocles, agreed to alternate as king. When Eteocles refused to give up power to Polyneices, the latter collected a foreign army of Argives and attacked the city. In the ensuing battle, the Thebans triumphed over the invading forces, and the two brothers killed each other, with Eteocles defending the city and Polyneices attacking it. The action of the play begins immediately after the battle. Note that Creon is a brother of Jocasta and thus an uncle of Antigone, Ismene, Eteocles, and Polyneices.

50. Diotima sophocles Antigone. Translated with Introduction and Notes Wm. Blake Tyrrell and Larry J. Bennett. Copyright © 1996. All rights reserved. http://www.stoa.org/diotima/anthology/ant/

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51. Sophocles Quotes 144 quotes and quotations by sophocles. sophocles A soul that is kind and intends justice discovers more than any sophist. sophocles http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/s/sophocles.html

Add the "Quote of the Day" to Your Site or Blog - it's EASY! Home Quote Topics Quote Keywords ... Author Nationalities Authors: A B C D ... Z Web brainyquote.com Sophocles Quotes Type: Poet Quotes Category: Greek Poet Quotes Year of Birth: 496 BC Year of Death: 406 BC Nationality: Greek Find on Amazon: Sophocles Related Authors: Horace Aeschylus Euripides Hesiod ... Menander A day lays low and lifts up again all human things. Sophocles A fearful man is always hearing things. Sophocles A human being is only breath and shadow. Sophocles A lie never lives to be old. Sophocles A man growing old becomes a child again. Sophocles A short saying often contains much wisdom. Sophocles A soul that is kind and intends justice discovers more than any sophist. Sophocles A state is not a state if it belongs to one man. Sophocles A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife. Sophocles A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick. Sophocles A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear. Sophocles Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver. Sophocles All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.

52. Sophocles Quotes Collection of quotations for the category sophocles Quotes. http://quotations.about.com/od/stillmorefamouspeople/a/Sophocles1.htm

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53. Antigone - Sophocles Read Antigone, by sophocles. sophocles. ANTIGONE. Translation by F. Storr, BA Formerly Scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge http://classiclit.about.com/library/bl-etexts/sophocles/bl-soph-ant.htm

zGCID=" test0" zGCID=" test0 test14" zJs=10 zJs=11 zJs=12 zJs=13 zc(5,'jsc',zJs,9999999,'') You are here: About Education Classic Literature A-to-Z Titles ... Antigone - Sophocles Antigone - Sophocles Classic Literature Education Classic Literature Essentials ... More E-texts Antigone by Sophocles (496 BC - 406-5 BC) SOPHOCLES ANTIGONE Translation by F. Storr, BA Formerly Scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge From the Loeb Library Edition Originally published by Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA and William Heinemann Ltd, London First published in 1912 ARGUMENT Antigone, daughter of Oedipus, the late king of Thebes, in defiance of Creon who rules in his stead, resolves to bury her brother Polyneices, slain in his attack on Thebes. She is caught in the act by Creon's watchmen and brought before the king. She justifies her action, asserting that she was bound to obey the eternal laws of right and wrong in spite of any human ordinance. Creon, unrelenting, condemns her to be immured in a rock-hewn chamber. His son Haemon, to whom Antigone is betrothed, pleads in vain for her life and threatens to die with her. Warned by the seer Teiresias Creon repents him and hurries to release Antigone from her rocky prison. But he is too late: he finds lying side by side Antigone who had hanged herself and Haemon who also has perished by his own hand. Returning to the palace he sees within the dead body of his queen who on learning of her son's death has stabbed herself to the heart.

54. Sophocles Writer Edipo re. Versatile Greek poet and tragic dramatist. He was the son of Sophilus Visit IMDb for Photos, Filmography, Discussions, Bio, News, http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0814668/

Now Playing Movie/TV News My Movies DVD New Releases ... search All Titles TV Episodes My Movies Names Companies Keywords Characters Quotes Bios Plots more tips SHOP SOPHOCLES DVD VHS CD IMDb Sophocles Quicklinks categorized by type by year by ratings by votes by TV series titles for sale by genre by keyword power search credited with tv schedule biography contact Top Links biography by votes awards news articles ... message board Filmographies categorized by type by year by ratings ... tv schedule Biographical biography other works publicity contact ... message board External Links official sites miscellaneous photographs sound clips ... video clips Sophocles advertisement photos board add contact details Photos Add photo(s) and resume with IMDb Resume Services Overview Date of Birth: B.C., Colonus, Ancient Greece more Date of Death: , BC more Mini Biography: Versatile Greek poet and tragic dramatist. He was the son of Sophilus... more Filmography Writer: Hercules Ley de Thelema (2002) (story) Origine du monde, L' Me llaman Madrina (1997) (writer) ... aka They Call Me Mandrina (International: English title: informal literal title) Edipo alcalde ... aka Oedipus Mayor Elektra (1994) (TV) (play) Oedipus Rex (1993) (TV) (play) (1992) (play) ... aka Antigone (Germany: short title) Antigone/Rites of Passion (1990) (plays Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone) ... aka Antigone/Rites for the Dead (USA: review title) Elektra (1989) (TV) (play) (1987) (TV) (play) Elettra (1987) (TV) (play) Oedipus the King (1984) (TV) (play) ... aka Theban Plays: Oedipus the King (USA) Antigone (1984) (TV) (play)

55. Sophocles Quotes A collection of quotes from the works of sophocles. http://www.literary-quotations.com/s/sophocles.html

Browse quotes by source Browse quotes by author SOPHOCLES QUOTES Antigone: Reason is God's greatest gift to man. Sons and fathers crown each other's glory with each other's fame. The kind of man who always thinks that he is rightthat his opinions and his pronouncements are the final wordwhen once exposed, shows nothing their. Show me the man who keeps his house in hand, He's fit for public authority. A wise man has much to learn without a loss of dignity. God and the government ordain just laws; the citizen who rules his life by them is worthy of acclaim. But he that presumes to set the law at naught is like a stateless person, outlawed, beyond the pale. No other touchstone can test the heart of a man, the temper of his mind and spirit, till he be tried in the practice of authority and rule. When I have tried and failed, I shall have failed. Don't kill the messenger. For God hates utterly The bray of bragging tongues. Our ship of fate, which recent storms have threatened to destroy, has come safely to harbor at last. I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State; and as for the man who sets private friendship above the public welfare I have no use for him, either.

56. Sophocles - Books And Biography Read sophocles s literature for FREE at Read Print. http://www.readprint.com/author-75/-Sophocles

Plays Oedipus Trilogy Read Print Sophocles Search within all works by Sophocles To read literature by Sophocles, select from the list on the left. Sophocles (495-405 B.C) . Born in 495 B.C. about a mile northwest of Athens, Sophocles was to become one of the great playwrights of the golden age. The son of a wealthy merchant, he would enjoy all the comforts of a thriving Greek empire. He studied all of the arts. By the age of sixteen, he was already known for his beauty and grace and was chosen to lead a choir of boys at a celebration of the victory of Salamis. Twelve years later, his studies complete, he was ready to compete in the City Dionysiaa festival held every year at the Theatre of Dionysus in which new plays were presented. In his first competition, Sophocles took first prizedefeating none other than Aeschylus himself. More than 120 plays were to follow. He would go on to win eighteen first prizes, and he would never fail to take at least second. An accomplished actor, Sophocles performed in many of his own plays. In the Nausicaa or The Women Washing Clothes , he performed a juggling act that so fascinated his audience it was the talk of Athens for many years. However, the young athenian's voice was comparatively weak, and eventually he would give up his acting career to pursue other ventures.

57. CADRE - Fragmentary Tragedies Of Sophocles Project The main aim of the Fragmentary Tragedies of sophocles project is to create an edition of selected fragmentary tragedies with translation and commentary. http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/classics/cadre/fragmentaryprojectframe.htm

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Online Encyclopedia Search over 40,000 articles from the original, classic Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th Edition. SOPHOCLES (495-406 B.c.) Online Encyclopedia Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 429 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica. Make a correction to this article. Add information or comments to this article. Encyclopedia Home SIV-SOU Spread the word: del.icio.us it! See also: SOPHOCLES (495-406 B.c.) SOPHOCLES (495-406 B.c.) See also: GREEK GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND Greek tragic poet, was See also: BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791) born at Colonus in the neighbourhood of See also: ATHENS ATHENS ['AN vat, Athenae, modem colloquial Greek `Ath va] Athens . His See also: FATHER father 's name was Sophillus; and the See also: FAMILY family See also: BURIAL burial See also: PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide) place is said to have been about a mile and a See also: HALF half from the See also: CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas) city on the Decelean Way . The date assigned for the poet's See also: BIRTH (a word common in various forms to Teutonic languages from the root of the verb " to bear ") birth is in accordance with the See also: TALE (O.Eng. talu, number, account, story; the word is common to many Teutonic languages; cf. Ger. Zahl, number, Erzahlung, narrative, Du. taal, speech, language)

59. Sophocles @Web English Teacher Antigone Oedipus Rex sophocles, biography background Antigone by sophocles Summary of the play and general notes. http://www.webenglishteacher.com/sophocles.html

from LaborLawTalk.com Word: Definition: English Math Teacher Labor Law ... Labor Law Center Employment law requires that employers post mandatory labor law posters . Our complete labor law poster combines the mandated state, federal and OSHA posters on one poster. Book Reports Children's Literature Drama ... Young Adult Literature Sophocles Lesson plans for Oedipus Antigone Antigone Oedipus Rex Antigone Sponsored Link Antigone E-Notes Lesson Plan A thorough unit plan, including activities, quizzes, and tests as well as the complete eNotes. Antigone by Sophocles Summary of the play and general notes. Includes a link to "The Antigone game." A good review. Antigone This 12-page packet supports 57 vocabulary words drawn from the play. Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader or compatible application for access. Antigone by Sophocles Overview, suggestions for instructional focus, activities, and connections beyond the classroom. Antigone Screenplay Assignment Click on the title link for a full description of the activity, which involves bringing Antigone into the 21st century. The Classics Pages: Sophocles Antigone - Creon An analysis of Creon's attitudes and actions.

60. Ancient History Sourcebook: Sophocles: Antigone, Excerpts Antigone, by the great tragic poet sophocles, is about conflicting duties. The heroine Antigone has defied her uncle Creon s edict and buried her rebellious http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/sophocles-antigone.html

Back to Ancient History Sourcebook Ancient History Sourcebook: Sophocles: Antigone , excerpts Antigone , by the great tragic poet Sophocles, is about conflicting duties. The heroine Antigone has defied her uncle Creon's edict and buried her rebellious brother. Here, Creon, concerned with the safety of the state, learns of the crime and confronts Antigone, who places family duty above everything. Back to top. Creon's son, Haemon, who is engaged to Antigone, attempts to defend her actions to his father. As the seer Teiresias warns Creon of the consequences of his inflexibility, the ruler relents, but it's too late. Source: Sophocles, Antigone This text is part of the Internet Ancient History Sourcebook . The Sourcebook is a collection of public domain and copy-permitted texts related to medieval and Byzantine history. See See How to Cite these pages in books, term papers, etc. © Paul Halsall, August 2000 halsall@fordham.edu

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