Sophocles

[ sof-uh-kleez ]

/ ˈsɒf əˌkliz /

495?–406? b.c., Greek dramatist.

OTHER WORDS FROM Sophocles

Soph·o·cle·an

[sof-uh-klee-uh n] /ˌsɒf əˈkli ən/, adjective

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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Sophocles speaks of the folly of muttering incantations over wounds that need the surgeon's knife.

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I carry all matters to an extreme—so that when I have any little vexation, it grows in five minutes into a theme for Sophocles.

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For this liberty I have the example of Aeschylus, the creator of tragedy, and Sophocles, the greatest master of his art.

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My father had Fred Esquillant in with him, and the two were busy with Sophocles.

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That stage of the story lies very far behind the consciousness of Sophocles.

Oedipus King of Thebes |Sophocles

Sophocles

/ (ˈsɒfəˌkliːz) /

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

Sophoclean (ˌsɒfəˈkliːən), adjective

Sophocles

[ (sof-uh-kleez) ]

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