The odes are relevant, the Chorus is indispensable; in short, Sophocles has shown. From Wordnik.com. [Authors of Greece] Reference
Maybe next we can remove the Oedipus trilogy from the curriculum, because man, Sophocles is a bummer. From Wordnik.com. [Conservatives Against Hard Work] Reference
Cut to Athens before the victory parade where a quiet young boy called Sophocles is chosen to lead the Procession of the Youth. From Wordnik.com. [Alcibiades: canonically irresistable.] Reference
"Sophocles" -- and stained with sea water, as that was stained. From Wordnik.com. [The Case of Richard Meynell] Reference
Sophocles, which is now extant, was one of his masterpieces. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay Volume 1] Reference
Sophocles, which is peculiarly distinguished by nobleness, grandeur, and elevation. From Wordnik.com. [The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians (Vol. 1 of 6)] Reference
"Sophocles," Owen said, "speaks of the nightingale as moaning all the night in ivy clusters, moaning or humming. From Wordnik.com. [Sister Teresa] Reference
I have retained every friend except Sophocles; though. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 3] Reference
(The first beats Aristotle blue; the second, Sophocles). From Wordnik.com. [The History of "Punch"] Reference
Sophocles did well to call Aphrodite "fruitful Cytherea.". From Wordnik.com. [Plutarch's Morals] Reference
Like old Lear, Sophocles was cursed with ungrateful children. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 3] Reference
His case repeated the fortune of Æschylus in relation to Sophocles. From Wordnik.com. [Classic French Course in English] Reference
"That sharpness for which madmen are so vehement," as Sophocles says. From Wordnik.com. [Plutarch's Morals] Reference
The same remark would apply to most of the extant plays of Sophocles. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science] Reference
Some of the sons of Sophocles composed tragedy and wrote some lyric poems. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 3] Reference
The one appears to make Sophocles his model; the other owes more to Euripides. From Wordnik.com. [Classic French Course in English] Reference
Sophocles and Æschylus chose for theirs the most dignified and noble passions. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 3] Reference
For as Sophocles says, "counsel is not like a race;" no more are question and answer. From Wordnik.com. [Plutarch's Morals] Reference
Wittily therefore has Sophocles described the conversation between Creon and the guard. From Wordnik.com. [Plutarch's Morals] Reference
Sophocles was the great object first of his imitation, and then of his envy and jealousy. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 3] Reference
Sophocles speaks of having the head shorn, and of wearing a skull-cap, like the Scythians. From Wordnik.com. [An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1] Reference
Æschylus; Racine was Sophocles; and, of course, Euripides had his counterpart in Voltaire. From Wordnik.com. [Classic French Course in English] Reference
So forget Sophocles and instead try P.G. Wodehouse, Martin Amis or, better yet, Charles Addams. From Wordnik.com. [Mail Call] Reference
The Thucydides has a grand page, over twelve inches by eight; the Sophocles is about seven by four. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866] Reference
It is not necessary to read Sophocles 'Oedipus Rex to see Bush's reaction to his father's presidency. From Wordnik.com. [Bush in the Bubble] Reference
The manager explained that Sophocles had been dead two thousand years and more, and could not well come. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878] Reference
Trying to make sense of Dallas, Bobby began reading the ancient Greeks, especially Aeschylus and Sophocles. From Wordnik.com. [The Camelot Curse] Reference
James Cameron knew perfectly well what every dramatist since Sophocles has known: death makes a socko ending. From Wordnik.com. [Death Takes A Hike] Reference
Mr. Cumings invokes Nietzsche, Brecht and Sophocles in thoughtful riffs on human memory and the "need to forget.". From Wordnik.com. [The Battle For the Peninsula] Reference
Like Æschylus, Sophocles was a high military character, and was ranked among the foremost defenders of his country. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 3] Reference
In dignity and sublimity Sophocles takes the lead, as Euripides does in tenderness, feeling, and pathetic expression. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 3] Reference
You don't have to be Freud or Sophocles to conjure up some rivalrous or rebellious feelings of the son toward the father. From Wordnik.com. [THE ROAD TO RESOLVE] Reference
Murakami borrows from everyone and everything -- Sophocles, horror movies, Japanese comics and movie-of-the-week schmaltz. From Wordnik.com. [THE CALL OF THE WILD] Reference
Who would teach Sophocles and Thoreau without encouraging students to consider the dangers of blind adherence to authority?. From Wordnik.com. [Mail Call: A Soldier of Israel Turned Peacemaker] Reference
Sophocles became a candidate, and though there were many competitors, and among them Æschylus himself, he bore away the prize. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 3] Reference
The great rival of Sophocles was Euripides, who, in their public contentions for the prize, divided with him the applause of the populace. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 3] Reference
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