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Sophocles
[ sof-uh-kleez ]
noun
- 495?–406? b.c., Greek dramatist.
Sophocles
/ ˌsɒfəˈkliːən; ˈsɒfəˌkliːz /
noun
- 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
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Derived Forms
- Sophoclean, adjective
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Other Words From
- Soph·o·cle·an [sof-, uh, -, klee, -, uh, n], adjective
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Example Sentences
What Sophocles really means is mankind, humanity is awesome — both terrifying but also awesome.
Manifold the wonders,” said Sophocles, “nothing towers more wondrous than man!
Virginia Woolf, however, did read Greek; she was translating Sophocles while she was writing Mrs. Dalloway.
Aeschylus wrote some 90 plays and Sophocles about 120; seven from each of them have survived.
Nevertheless, Euripides has beauties, and Sophocles still more; but they have much greater defects.
Sophocles wrote the astonishing number of one hundred and thirty plays, and carried off the first prize twenty-four times.
Now I myself was familiar with Sophocles, who once had been so shadowy a name in my ear.
You would think that the soul of Sophocles, seeing our great need of beauty and wisdom, would be interested to give us his works!
Then there is the Aristides—more real and speaking and easy in attitude even than the Sophocles at Rome.
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