Sophocles

[ sof-uh-kleez ]

noun

1. 495?–406? b.c., Greek dramatist.

Sophocles

/ ˌsɒfəˈkliːən; ˈsɒfəˌkliːz /

noun

1. Sophocles?496 bc406 bcMGreekTHEATRE: dramatist ?496–406 bc , Greek dramatist; author of seven extant tragedies: Ajax, Antigone, Oedipus Rex, Trachiniae, Electra, Philoctetes , and Oedipus at Colonus

Sophocles

1. An ancient Greek poet, author of and . He is counted, with Euripides and Aeschylus , among the great Greek authors of tragedies .

Derived Forms

• Sophoclean, adjective

Other Words From

• Soph·o·cle·an [sof-, uh, -, klee, -, uh, n], adjective

Example Sentences

Manifold the wonders,” said Sophocles, “nothing towers more wondrous than man!

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Virginia Woolf, however, did read Greek; she was translating Sophocles while she was writing Mrs. Dalloway.

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Aeschylus wrote some 90 plays and Sophocles about 120; seven from each of them have survived.

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Nevertheless, Euripides has beauties, and Sophocles still more; but they have much greater defects.

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Sophocles wrote the astonishing number of one hundred and thirty plays, and carried off the first prize twenty-four times.

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Now I myself was familiar with Sophocles, who once had been so shadowy a name in my ear.

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You would think that the soul of Sophocles, seeing our great need of beauty and wisdom, would be interested to give us his works!

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Then there is the Aristides—more real and speaking and easy in attitude even than the Sophocles at Rome.

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