Tag Archives: Sophocles

Euripides, The Great Greek Tragedian

By Eldar Balta, Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom Euripides’ Early life Born on Salamis Island in 480 BC to mother Cleito and father Mnesarchus, Euripides’ destiny was foretold in a prophecy given to his father. The Oracle fated that Euripides would one day hold the “crowns of victory”. Mnesarchus did not lose any time insisting that

Written on November 17, 2018 at 12:06 am, by plato

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Categories: Dramatists

Tags: Aeschylus, Ancient Greek theater, Archelaus, Aristophanes, Euripides, Macidonia, medea, Sophocles, Thracians, Tragedians

The Bloodless – but perhaps Most Clever – Greek Tragedy Ever Written

By Ben Potter and Anya Leonard Sophocles’ Philoctetes, first performed in 409 BC, isn’t a typical tragedy, certainly not in the more modern perception of the genre. There is no high death toll and no evil, underhand conniving that leaves characters bitter and crushed. In a word, there is no blood. In fact, as far

Written on October 2, 2018 at 8:05 pm, by plato

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Categories: Theater

Tags: Ancient Greek theater, Euripides, Lemnos, Neoptolemus, Odysseus, Odyssey, Philoctetes, Sophocles, Tragedy

Sophocles Antigone: One Woman Against the State

by Anya Leonard “My nature is to join in love, not hate” – ‘Antigone’ in Sophocles Antigone. Maybe it’s no surprise then that this individual found herself on the wrong side of the state. The powers that be probably didn’t appreciate either, that this adversary came from the oppressed class, one of the current underdogs of

Written on May 15, 2017 at 5:27 pm, by anya

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Categories: Oedipus Trilogy

Tags: Ancient Greece, Antigone, Creon, Drama, Greek Tragedy, Oedipus, play, Sophocles

Oedipus at Colonus: The Tale of Two Ancient Deaths

And so it comes to be, that all men must die. Yes, even the old ones. The great poet and dramatist, Sophocles, was approaching his own end when he imagined the glorious finale of the tragic figure, Oedipus in Oedipus at Colonus. This play is thought to be Sophocles’ final one because it was first produced

Written on April 11, 2017 at 9:10 am, by plato

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Categories: Oedipus Trilogy

Tags: Ancient Greece, Antigone, Athens, Creon, Oedipus, Oedipus at Colonus, Oedipus Rex, play, Sophocles, Theseus, Tragedy

Oedipus Rex Moral or Murder?

He is one of the most tragic heroes ever found in literature; a man so unfortunate in the eyes of the gods, that he eventually blinded himself. He forces the question of fate, of self determination, of questioning society and divinity itself. Some may say this was his fatal flaw, his resistance to the life

Written on March 22, 2017 at 10:48 am, by plato

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Categories: Oedipus Trilogy

Tags: Ancient Greek play, Ancient greek tragedy, Moral, morality, Oedipus Rex, Oedipus the king, Sophocles

The Ages of Ancient Greece

By Ben Potter Archaic. Classical. Hellenistic. These terms are often (and quite naturally) conflated together under the generic heading of ‘classical’, or, at the very least, ‘old’. It appears that organizing history into clear, distinct eras can be a tricky business. This, of course, is more true for the Greeks than for the Romans. This

Written on November 28, 2014 at 4:27 pm, by plato

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Categories: Politics

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