Sophocles
noun
495?–406? b.c., Greek dramatist.
Sophoclean
-
a word derived from
Sophocles.
Example Sentences
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Does our current Sophoclean moment mean that the mythic drama of Greece still holds its age-old power for theatergoers?
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 6, 2026
The Getty Villa survived the fires and it can survive this jovial, if half-baked, Sophoclean circus.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2025
However, after the game’s Sophoclean twist near the end, the hardships visited upon the player take on a different light.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 27, 2021
Some of these plays – Antigone and the Sophoclean Electra in particular – could be moulded to fit repressive contemporary ideals of womanhood, since their heroines demonstrate selfless devotion to dead male family members.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 7, 2017
All these queens and heroines of history and tragedy have rather an Ovidian than a Sophoclean grace of bearing and of speech.
From A Study of Shakespeare by Edmund Gosse
