How To Use Sophocles In A Sentence
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No man loves life like him that's growing old. Sophocles
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A short saying oft contains much wisdom. Sophocles
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Protagoras 'contemporary, Sophocles, wrote the most enthusiastic proclamation of man's ability to con - trol and transform the world that survives from antiq - uity (Antigone 332-75), yet he closed his encomium with a cautionary reference to the fact that such power can be a mixed blessing.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas
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Always desire to learn something useful. Sophocles
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Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day. Sophocles
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A man can get a reputation from very small things. Sophocles
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You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering. Sophocles
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A man, though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind. Sophocles
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Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver. Sophocles
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Indeed, many other things were different then too, including the fact that in Sophocles' day people were paid to attend the theater, a point I shall indirectly recur to later.
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Euripides was a contemporary of Sophocles but not a politician himself; he was an occasional diplomat and elegist of the glorious dead, but his dyspeptic feelings about the world — during a war against Sparta that Athens was beginning to lose — are clear from all his plays, not least this last of Carson's trilogy.
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All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride. Sophocles
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Regarding mortality, certainly the opponents of the Lapiths and Heracles were mortal; on the other hand, Sophocles and Apollodorus (in re: Prometheus unbinding) descrive Cheiron as immortal, squaring with his separate birth; and on yet another hand, Pindar (Pythian 3) calls Cheiron dead (Ovid alludes to his wounding and death, but doesn't say how).
The Origins of Centaurs
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What you cannot enforce, do not command. Sophocles
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Sophocles' play was for Aristotle an exemplary tragedy, both formally, in terms of unity of action, and in its tragic story.
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Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still. Sophocles
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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness. Sophocles
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When he entered upon this office he intended to have prelected upon the tragedies of Sophocles; but he altered his intention and made choice of Aristotle's rhetoric.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"
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War loves to seek its victims in the young. Sophocles
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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. Sophocles
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Which would you choose if you could:pleasure for yourself despite your friends or a share in their grief? Sophocles
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Which would you choose if you could:pleasure for yourself despite your friends or a share in their grief? Sophocles
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Introductions (attributed to Aristophanes) to some plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, based on the Didascaliae (lists of dramatic productions) of Aristotle and on Peripatetic research, are extant in an abbreviated form.
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A setting of Hugo von Hofmannstahl's relentlessly grim adaptation of Sophocles 'tragedy of betrayal and revenge in the house of Atreus, "Elektra" scored an immediate success at its premiere and has been a fixture in the international repertory ever since.
Strauss's Clear Success: 'Elektra' in Concert
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English sixteenth centuries, and the alembicated exquisiteness of Catullus and Carew; he does not dislike Webster because he is not Dryden, or Young because he is not Spenser; he does not quarrel with Sophocles because he is not Æschylus, or with Hugo because he is not Heine.
A History of Elizabethan Literature
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Machiavelli drew a similar contrast between himself and his predecessors, although he, unlike Sophocles and Raphael, added a value judgment.
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In the years thereafter, Aeschylus found his muse and became one of the three celebrated 5th-century-BC Athenian tragedians, alongside Sophocles and Euripides.
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“Pounded by the sea,” as Sophocles calls Salamis, and short on arable land, the ancient island, like its modern counterpart, is likely to have housed fishermen in nearly every cove.
The Battle of Salamis
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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. Sophocles
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Herodotus is telling of wonders that his friends, and we too, want to hear, that in the tragedies we hear the voice of Sophocles dictating, choked with emotion and tears; that even Roman historians wrote because they had something to tell, and Caesar, dull proser that he is, composed the _Commentaries_ not to provide us with style or grammatical curiosities, but as a record of extraordinary events.
Cambridge Essays on Education
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Which would you choose if you could:pleasure for yourself despite your friends or a share in their grief? Sophocles
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The staggering fact is that for centuries the plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides went virtually unperformed on the British stage.
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On the whole, Lefkowitz steers by more familiar landmarks, including the great classical dramatists like Aeschylus and Sophocles among her poets.
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What you cannot enforce, do not command. Sophocles
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The most notable of the playwrights are Aeschylus, Euripides and Sophocles.
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The pulse of the verse is kept steady but the rhythmical structure of the whole speech is given a new fluidity by Sophocles' informal treatment of metrical pause.
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And how effective such "unnaturalness" can be in evoking natural passion only those will understand who have realised how ineffective for that purpose is our "naturalness" when we are concerned with Sophocles or
Appearances Being Notes of Travel
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Much wisdom often goes with fewest words. Sophocles
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Quick decisions are unsafe decisions. Sophocles
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In this paper 1 shall discuss only King Oedipus, the key play in Sophocles' trilogy.
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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness. Sophocles
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I dug in the hem of my cloak and found an obol to pay a disheveled water boy to go to Sophocles 'home and request that he meet me back at the theatre on an urgent matter.
Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
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The word parrhesia, however, is to be found neither in Pindar, nor in Aeschylus and Sophocles, and first appears in Euripides 'Hippolytus (line 422; performed in 428 B.C.) and Ion (lines 672, 675; of uncertain date).
Dictionary of the History of Ideas
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Sophocles ' Oedipus Rex, for example, deals with something so psychologically basic that people from all cultures can respond to it.
THE BOOK OF THE DIE
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An unavenged murder could in extreme cases cause barrenness and crop failure, as in Sophocles ' Oedipus the King.
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That aspect of his career began when he was just six years old, and his mother was studying Sophocles' Antigone as part of a university Classics course.
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A man, though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind. Sophocles
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In contrast, a pedant is a supercilious show-off who drops references to Sophocles and masks his shallowness by using words like “fulgent” and “supercilious.”
Amen to intellectualism!
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This herd has turned with much greater zest to the science of language: here in this wide expanse of virgin soil, where even the most mediocre gifts can be turned to account, and where a kind of insipidity and dullness is even looked upon as decided talent, with the novelty and uncertainty of methods and the constant danger of making fantastic mistakes -- here, where dull regimental routine and discipline are desiderata -- here the newcomer is no longer frightened by the majestic and warning voice that rises from the ruins of antiquity: here every one is welcomed with open arms, including even him who never arrived at any uncommon impression or noteworthy thought after a perusal of Sophocles and Aristophanes, with the result that they end in an etymological tangle, or are seduced into collecting the fragments of out-of-the-way dialects -- and their time is spent in associating and dissociating, collecting and scattering, and running hither and thither consulting books.
On the Future of our Educational Institutions
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The association of music and drama goes back all the way to ancient Greece with the plays of Euripides and Sophocles.
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A man, though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind. Sophocles
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In contrast, a pedant is a supercilious show-off who drops references to Sophocles and masks his shallowness by using words like “fulgent” and “supercilious.”
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Sophocles' dramatic imagination is before all else physical and concrete.
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Lloyd-Jones's metaphrases are valuable for understanding the Greek, while Fitts and Fitzgerald are not, but if one's purpose in translating Sophocles is to represent poetry as poetry with poetry, not Fagles, not Grene, and I imagine not Lloyd-Jones can be described as ‘excellent.’
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You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering. Sophocles
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Indeed, innovation in scene painting is associated with Sophocles, albeit in a passage of Aristotle which may be interpolated.
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The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves. Sophocles
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Seneca produced his own versions of tragedies by Sophocles, Euripides, and Aeschylus.
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The Throne of Labdacus returns to the time when the Sophocles play had not yet premiered, when the tragedy had not yet been cast in stone by scribes and was still mutable in the mouths of rhapsodes and messengers.
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From the froth of poetry, they rose to a contemplation of the old classics; Homer, Euripides, Sophocles, Virgil, rising grandly from their dust, ensphered in vibratory eloquence.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
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The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves. Sophocles
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Sophocles' play was for Aristotle an exemplary tragedy, both formally, in terms of unity of action, and in its tragic story.
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Sophocles's Oedipus is a particular inspiration for endless interfamilial trauma and revenge, apparently.
Hugh Muir's diary
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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness. Sophocles
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The characters in the tragedies of Sophocles resist all warnings and inescapably meet with disaster.
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Success is dependent on effort. Sophocles
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Keats laced his finest poetry with mythological allusions, as did the great German classicist and translator of Sophocles, Hölderlin.
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Always desire to learn something useful. Sophocles
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Always desire to learn something useful. Sophocles
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Sophocles says that the clever birds feed their parents and their benefactors, and men ascribe piety to them in fables, as a needful ensample to one another.
Mary Anerley
