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Sophocles was born around 496 B.C. in Colonus (near Athens), Greece. In 480, he was selected to lead the paean (choral chant to a god) celebrating the decisive Greek sea victory over the Persians at the Battle of Salamis. He served as a treasurer and general for Athens when it was expanding its mostrar mais empire and influence. He wrote approximately 123 plays including Ajax, Antigone, Oedipus Tyrannus, Trachiniae, Electra, Philoctetes, and Oedipus at Colonus. His last recorded act was to lead a chorus in public mourning for Euripides. He died in 406 B. C. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos

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Obras por Sophocles

Oedipus Rex (0429) — Autor — 6,562 exemplares
Antigone (0441) — Autor — 5,453 exemplares
The Complete Plays of Sophocles (0005) — Autor — 2,190 exemplares
Oedipus at Colonus (0401) — Autor — 540 exemplares
Philoctetes (translation) (0409) 408 exemplares
Ajax [in translation] (1977) 375 exemplares
Antigone; Oedipus the King (1960) 373 exemplares
Women of Trachis [in translation] (0440) 236 exemplares
Fabulae (Oxford Classical Texts) (1924) 151 exemplares
Electra [Greek text] (1880) — Autor — 114 exemplares
Trachiniae [Greek text] (1982) 111 exemplares
Ajax (1990) 106 exemplares
Sophocles (1959) 86 exemplares
Five Great Greek Tragedies (Thrift Edition) (1994) — Contribuidor — 80 exemplares
Ajax; Antigone; Oedipus the King (1969) — Autor — 77 exemplares
Two Satyr Plays: Euripides' Cyclops / Sophocles' Ichneutai (1957) — Contribuidor — 61 exemplares
Oedipus The King (Minnesota Drama Editions) (1972) — Autor — 57 exemplares
Plays of the Greek Dramatists (1939) — Contribuidor — 51 exemplares
Hamburger Lesehefte : Sophokles : Antigone (1993) — Text — 46 exemplares
Sophocles' Oedipus the King [Greek Tragedies Retold] (2004) — Autor — 36 exemplares
Eén familie, acht tragedies (1999) — Autor — 34 exemplares
Antigone / The Women of Trachis (2009) 32 exemplares
Eschyle - Sophocle : Tragiques grecs (1967) — Autor — 28 exemplares
Sophocles' Antigone [adapted] (2001) 28 exemplares
Ajax; Electra (2000) 22 exemplares
Electra; Oedipus the King (1972) 21 exemplares
Sophoclis Tragoediae 21 exemplares
Oedipus Rex / Oedipus at Colonus (1991) 21 exemplares
Ajax; Oedipus the King (2009) 20 exemplares
Trachinie-Filottete (1990) 20 exemplares
Antigone; Electra; Philoctetes (1979) 19 exemplares
Tracking Satyrs 18 exemplares
Antigone (1955) 16 exemplares
Ajax; Electra; Women of Trachis (1985) 15 exemplares
Electra; Philoctetes (1992) 15 exemplares
Oedipus the King and Antigone (translation) (1960) — Autor — 14 exemplares
Sophocles II (1957) 13 exemplares
Electra (Greek) 11 exemplares
Electra (English) 11 exemplares
Tragedias (2010) 10 exemplares
Philoctetes (Greek) 10 exemplares
Electra (1999) 10 exemplares
Tragedie e frammenti (1982) 8 exemplares
Electra and Other Plays (2014) 8 exemplares
Sophocles 7 exemplares
The fragments of Sophocles (1917) 7 exemplares
Трагедии (1988) 7 exemplares
Oedipus Trilogy 6 exemplares
edipo Rei (2013) 6 exemplares
Edipo Rey, Antígona y Electra (2001) 6 exemplares
Philoktet. Herakles 5 (1969) 6 exemplares
King Oedipus (1986) 6 exemplares
Antigone; Philoctetes 6 exemplares
Tre dramer 6 exemplares
Sophocles II 6 exemplares
Sophocles 5 exemplares
Tragèdies (1990) 5 exemplares
De Grieken 2 Bestemming (2017) 5 exemplares
As traquínias (1900) 5 exemplares
Drie tragedies (1979) 5 exemplares
Tragedias (2021) 5 exemplares
Antigone; Electra (1985) 5 exemplares
Tragedias (1984) 4 exemplares
Elektra: Live from The Metropolitan Opera [1980 film] (2006) — Writer — 4 exemplares
Sophoclis Fabulae 4 exemplares
Sophocles.Oedipus heerst. (2013) 4 exemplares
Werke 2 (1995) 4 exemplares
OEDIPE ROI (2015) 4 exemplares
Grundlagen und Gedanken, Drama, Antigone (1974) — Autor — 4 exemplares
Antygona ; Król Edyp (2009) 3 exemplares
sophokles tragödien 3 exemplares
TRAGEDIAS (2011) 3 exemplares
Sophoclis cantica (1907) 3 exemplares
Oedipus at Colonus 3 exemplares
Tragedie. T. 2 (2012) 3 exemplares
Sengrieķu traģēdijas — Autor — 3 exemplares
Selected fragmentary plays (2006) 3 exemplares
The Antigone 3 exemplares
Tragèdies. II 3 exemplares
Sophocles I 3 exemplares
Oedipus the King 3 exemplares
Edipo Em Colono (1996) 3 exemplares
Philoctetes (Playbook) (1969) 3 exemplares
Philoctetes (griech.) 2 exemplares
The Fragments of Sophocles I (2018) 2 exemplares
The Fragments of Sophocles II (2010) 2 exemplares
Antigone 2 exemplares
Edipo rey 2 exemplares
Tragedias y fragmentos (1999) 2 exemplares
Werke 2 exemplares
Les candidats 2012 (2011) 2 exemplares
EDIPO A COLONO (2016) 2 exemplares
Tragédies 2 exemplares
[Oeuvres] (1958) 2 exemplares
Filoctetes (1997) 2 exemplares
The Trachiniae 2 exemplares
FILOTTETE, LAURENTI (2006) 2 exemplares
Tutte le tragedie di Sofocle (2007) 2 exemplares
Philoctetes 2 exemplares
Tragedias 2 exemplares
Tragedias 2 exemplares
Tragèdies. II (1959) 2 exemplares
Sòfocles: Tragèdies (2019) 2 exemplares
Teatro (2008) 2 exemplares
Φιλοκτήτης 2 exemplares
Ἠλέκτρα 2 exemplares
Αίας 2 exemplares
Antigone - Casa di bambola (1998) 2 exemplares
Oedipus 2 exemplares
Dramen griechisch und deutsch (2014) 2 exemplares
Sophokles 2 exemplares
The Oedipus Coloneus 2 exemplares
Sophocles I (Loeb) 2 exemplares
Tragedie 2 exemplares
Sophocles' King Oedipus (2000) 2 exemplares
Antigone [Illustrated] (2011) 2 exemplares
Ajax, Antigone (1991) 2 exemplares
Tragedier 2 exemplares
Sophocles II 1 exemplar
Die Tragödien 1 exemplar
Trakhisli Kadinlar (2014) 1 exemplar
Epido Re 1 exemplar
Sophokles. König Ödipus. (1966) 1 exemplar
Oidipus i Kolonos 1 exemplar
Sophocle, tome I 1 exemplar
Tragoedien 1 exemplar
Sophocles Aiax (1996) 1 exemplar
Oidipus király 1 exemplar
Tragedie (Italian Edition) (2019) 1 exemplar
Τραχίνιαι 1 exemplar
Τραχίνιαι 1 exemplar
איאס (2003) 1 exemplar
Τραχινιαι 1 exemplar
Αιας 1 exemplar
Τραχινίαι 1 exemplar
Sem título (1992) 1 exemplar
Antigoné (2020) 1 exemplar
אנטיגונה (2007) 1 exemplar
פילוקטטס (1998) 1 exemplar
Le tragedie (1989) 1 exemplar
Le tragedie di Sofocle — Autor — 1 exemplar
Sofocle Trachinie Filottete (1994) 1 exemplar
Sophocle : traduction nouvelle — Autor — 1 exemplar
אנטיגונה (1990) 1 exemplar
Ajax; Philoctetes 1 exemplar
Sophokles: Aias 1 exemplar
The Ajax Project 1 exemplar
Ødipus 1 exemplar
Penguin classics 1 exemplar
Ayax 1 exemplar
King Oedipus 1 exemplar
Antígona 1 exemplar
Edipo Rey (2022) 1 exemplar
Edipo Rey - Antigona (2003) 1 exemplar
SOF Antígona 1 exemplar
Ántigona 1 exemplar
Tragediën 1 exemplar
Antigona; Car Edip 1 exemplar
Car Edip, Antigona 1 exemplar
Oedipus the King 1 exemplar
Elektra 1 exemplar
Ajax 1 exemplar
The Oedipus Cycle 1 exemplar
Théâtre complet 1 exemplar
Oidipus 1 exemplar
Oedipe Roi 1 exemplar
Antigona 1 exemplar
The Complete Plays 1 exemplar
Tragèdies I 1 exemplar
Oedipe roi (2019) 1 exemplar
Électre (1937) 1 exemplar
Antigone illustré par Coco (2017) 1 exemplar
Tragédies (1982) 1 exemplar
theatre de sophocle (1922) 1 exemplar
Œdipe Roi (French Edition) (2018) 1 exemplar
Tragèdies III 1 exemplar
Sophocles' dramas 1 exemplar
Sochocles II 1 exemplar
dipus 1 exemplar
Sofoklesa Antygona 1 exemplar
Tragedie. T. 1 (2009) 1 exemplar
Sophocles: Tragoediae I-II (1984) 1 exemplar
Antogone 1 exemplar
oedipe-Roi 1 exemplar
Oedipus At Colonus 1 exemplar
Oedipus, the king 1 exemplar
Sophokles Die Tragödien, 81 (1963) 1 exemplar
Antigone (2014) 1 exemplar
Antigone : Textausgabe (1998) 1 exemplar
Kralj Edip ; Antigona (2000) 1 exemplar
Three Tragdies 1 exemplar
Oidipus Sang Raja 1 exemplar
Ødipus 1 exemplar
THE PLAYS OF SOPHOCLES (1980) 1 exemplar
Oedipus the King 1 exemplar
Koning Oedipus (1985) 1 exemplar
The Antigon 1 exemplar
3: The Antigone 1 exemplar
Trachiniae (Perfect Library) (2015) 1 exemplar
Sophocles The Theban Plays (1959) 1 exemplar
Kralj Edip ; Antigona (1996) 1 exemplar
Edipo rei (1999) 1 exemplar
Tragèdies, vol. 1 1 exemplar
Oedipus at Colonos (2015) 1 exemplar
Tragèdies, vol. 4 1 exemplar
Tragèdies, vol. 3 1 exemplar
Rei Édipo (2015) 1 exemplar
Tragèdies 1 exemplar
Édipo Rei - L&PM 1 exemplar
Electra (2002) 1 exemplar
Tragedias 1 exemplar
Èdip Rei (Catalan Edition) (2022) 1 exemplar
Sófocles Dramas y tragedias (1962) 1 exemplar
Dramas y tragedias (1983) 1 exemplar
Antígona 1 exemplar
Greek Tragedies 1 exemplar
The Philoctetes 1 exemplar
Sophocles I [-II] 1 exemplar
Antigone (2015) 1 exemplar
Tragèdies 1 exemplar
Four Greek plays ... (1965) 1 exemplar
Tragedias tebanas 1 exemplar
SIETE TRAGEDIAS, LAS (SC014) (2000) 1 exemplar
ÀLAX - EDIP REI 1 exemplar
Teatro griego (1997) 1 exemplar
Tragedias I 1 exemplar
Theban Plays, The 1 exemplar
Sophoclis Fabvluae 1 exemplar
Ãdipo em Colono 1 exemplar
Ajant (2009) 1 exemplar

Associated Works

Greek Tragedies, Volume 1 (1960) — Contribuidor — 1,412 exemplares
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Contribuidor, algumas edições915 exemplares
Greek tragedies, Volume 3 (1960) — Contribuidor; Contribuidor, algumas edições654 exemplares
The Best Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy-Onassis (2001) — Contribuidor — 545 exemplares
Greek tragedies, Volume 2 (1960) — Contribuidor — 482 exemplares
Greek Drama (Bantam Classics) (0405) — Contribuidor — 482 exemplares
World Poetry: An Anthology of Verse from Antiquity to Our Time (1998) — Contribuidor — 447 exemplares
Seven Famous Greek Plays (1938) — Contribuidor — 421 exemplares
The Portable Greek Reader (1948) — Contribuidor, algumas edições396 exemplares
Eight Great Tragedies (1957) — Contribuidor — 385 exemplares
Literature: The Human Experience (2006) — Contribuidor — 338 exemplares
Ten Greek Plays in Contemporary Translations (1957) — Contribuidor — 309 exemplares
The Complete Greek tragedies (1953) — Contribuidor — 203 exemplares
Masterpieces of the Drama (1966) — Contribuidor — 178 exemplares
The Moral Life: An Introductory Reader in Ethics and Literature (1999) — Contribuidor — 175 exemplares
An Anthology of Greek Drama: First Series (1949) — Autor — 135 exemplares
Four Greek Plays (1960) — Contribuidor — 78 exemplares
Four Famous Greek Plays (1777) — Contribuidor — 77 exemplares
Treasury of the Theatre: From Aeschylus to Ostrovsky (1967) — Contribuidor — 48 exemplares
An Anthology of Greek Drama: Second Series (1954) — Autor — 47 exemplares
Nine Great Plays: From Aeschylus to Eliot (Revised Edition) (1950) — Contribuidor; Contribuidor — 24 exemplares
Lapham's Quarterly - The Future: Volume IV, Number 4, Fall 2011 (2011) — Contribuidor — 23 exemplares
De dag dat je brief kwam Amnesty International poëziebundel (1988) — Contribuidor — 18 exemplares
Antigone. Variazioni sul mito (2000) — Inspiration — 17 exemplares
Oedipus Rex [1967 film] — Original play — 14 exemplares
Agamenon / Hippolytus / Oedipus the King (1960) — Contribuidor — 8 exemplares
Oedipe ou Le Roi boiteux (1986) — Inspiration — 8 exemplares
Orpheus ; Oedipus Rex ; The infernal machine (1962) — Autor, algumas edições7 exemplares
Drie Griekse tragedies (1961) — Contribuidor — 6 exemplares
An introduction to drama (1951) — Contribuidor — 5 exemplares
Grieksche lyriek in Nederlandsche verzen — Contribuidor — 3 exemplares
Theatre (2013) 3 exemplares

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Sophocles's Antigone em Ancient History (Abril 2009)

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This classic play is an out and out dramatic classic of murder,
incest, self-mutilation and suicide. It is amazing to think that this play was performed nearly 2,500 years ago, five times longer ago than Shakespeare's plays. Put another way, when Jesus was born and lived, this play was as far in the past to people living then as Shakespeare's plays are to us now in 2024. It won second prize in a competition in 429 BC to a play now lost to us written by a nephew of Euripides, one of the other two most prominent Greek tragic writers of the era. What huge influence this and other plays of the era have had on the literature of the past two and a half millennia.… (mais)
 
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john257hopper | 71 outras críticas | Mar 3, 2024 |
The Law of God versus the Law of the State is displayed in amazing drama. Love, listening, and understanding, are shown to be superior to either argument.
 
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Aidan767 | 67 outras críticas | Feb 1, 2024 |
How does one actually rate a book which has lived on as a classic for nearly 2500 years? That fact alone implies it's worth reading.
 
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MahanaU | 67 outras críticas | Jan 23, 2024 |

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Associated Authors

David Grene Editor, Translator, Foreword
Euripides Contributor, Author
Richmond Lattimore Editor, Translator
Aeschylus Contributor
Aristophanes Contributor
Æschylus Contributor
Gina Wolf Adaptor
Gita Wolf Adapter
Sirish Rao Adapter
Aischylos Author
James Levine Conductor
Aishils Author
Eiripīds Author
Joachim Hagner Commentary
E. F. Watling Translator, Editor
Eschyle Auteur
Euripide Auteur
M.A. Arthur Zeiger Introduction
Peter D. Arnott Translator
Richard Claverhouse Jebb Editor, Translator
Gilbert Murray Translator
H. D. F. Kitto Translator
Indrapramit Roy Illustrator
Anthony Burgess Translator
Ian C. Johnston Translator
Frederick Ahl Translator
R.C. Jebb Editor
Jean Bollack Translator
Henriks Novackis Translator
Augusts Ģiezens Translator
E. H. Plumptre Translator, Preface
Dudley Fitts Translator
Sir George Young Translator
Lewis Campbell Translator
Paul Roche Translator
Ernst Buschor Translator
E. De Waele Translator, Introduction
P.C. Boutens Translator
Jamey Hecht Translator
Bernard Knox Introduction
Robert Fagles Translator
Jan Stolpe Translator
Norbert Zink Translator
Hugh Lloyd-Jones Translator, Editor
F. Storr Translator
Francis Storr Translator
Thornton Wilder Introduction
Pietro Angèli Translator
Evert Straat Translator
Roberto Rebora Introduction
R.D. Dawe Editor
Jan Engelman Translator
Walther Schoorel Cover artist
Giacomo Manzu Illustrator
Hjalmar Gullberg Translator
Eugene H Falk Introduction
Roman Woerner Translator
Ferrante Ferranti Photographer
Diane J. Rayor Translator
August Boeckh Translator
Michael Townsend Translator
Karl Reinhardt Translator
Walter Amelung Translator
August Boeckh Translator
Michael Jameson Translator
T. E. Page Editor
Assela Alamillo Translator
Rachel Kitzinger Translator
Eamon Grennan Translator
Jos De Haes Translator
Gregory McNamee Translator
Jeffrey Henderson Series Editor, Editor
Bertus van Lier Translator
Richard Pevear Translator
John Tipton Translator
Māra Rikmane Illustrator
Piet Gerbrandy Afterword
Emil Zilliacus Translator
Robert Bagg Translator
Ezra Pound Translator
C. K. Williams Translator
F. L. Light Translator
Exekias Cover artist
Jean Bees Illustrator
Remo Cantoni Introduction
John Moore Translator
José Alsina Clota Introduction
Isa Dietrich Cover artist
J. Tapperwijn Cover designer
Anneke Germers Cover designer
Enric Iborra Foreword
Anne Mahoney Translator
Carles Riba Translator

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Obras
725
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39
Membros
39,094
Popularidade
#460
Avaliação
3.8
Críticas
321
ISBN
1,645
Línguas
31
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