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Meaning of "sophocles"

Sophocles - a Greek playwright known for his tragedies, one of the three ancient Greek tragedians whose plays have survived
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  • A Greek dramatic poet (ca. 497 BCE – 405 BCE); Sophocles was one of the three greatest Greek tragedians. In the Athenian dramatic competitions of the Festival of Dionysus, he won more first prizes (around 20) than any other playwright, and placed second in all others he participated in. He is best remembered for his Oedipus Cycle of plays.
  • A male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to Ancient Greek Σοφοκλῆς (Sophoklês) or Greek Σοφοκλής (Sofoklís).

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Sophocles is camping there with his parents.
I think it was Sophocles who once said.
Sophocles votes for the law of the gods.
Antigone is one of Sophocles seven surviving plays.
Sophocles got his start there.
Hamilton believed Sophocles viewed life as being hard.
Sophocles said that plagiarism is the sincerest form of flattery.
The name is also attested in a fragment by Sophocles.
Sophocles is also a science nerd with a vast knowledge of technology.
Syncellus extends the phrase to include Sophocles.
Sophocles was provided with the best traditional aristocratic education.
It is one of the seven extant tragedies by Sophocles.
Sophocles had a major impact on me.
Knowledge speaks of Sophocles reflects the tragic consciousness.
Sophocles added three more.

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Some people claim that Sophocles first coined it.
Sophocles knew this.
You must always remember what he said to Sophocles.
Sophocles long ago.
It differs in significant ways from the work of Sophocles.
Sophocles wrote about it.
Antigone is a tragic drama written by Sophocles.
Sophocles did not do it.
Then the king learnt that Sophocles was dead.
For Sophocles the question of the name.
The second great poet of the genre was Sophocles c.
Sophocles was one of the three great Greek tragedians.
Antigone is among Sophocles seven plays that have survived.
Sophocles and Euripides famously followed in his footsteps.
As a scholar he is best known by his work on Sophocles and Plato.
He admired Sophocles so much that he never.
Semion promised to help me get a part in the Sophocles play.
Sophocles and Lana will prepare one for you.
I would remind him and you of the towering words of Sophocles.
Sophocles writes in Antigone about natural law and legal institutions.
The ancient authorities for the life of Sophocles are very scanty.
Lillie and Sophocles are a million times better at this than me.
I have never met a girl who knows every line of Sophocles by heart.
Sophocles was the second of the three great Greek authors of tragedies.
Not to mention what Sophocles did to his father and to his mother.
Sophocles is said to have also contributed a play titled Niobe that is lost.
They are going to perform a scene from an abridged version of Antigone by Sophocles.
In Sophocles we find some of the loveliest and the saddest lines in all history.
To start recalled would our ancestors reminding you of Sophocles verses found in Antigone.
By these changes Sophocles made the tragedy a drama in the proper sense of the word.
Epigoni also was a lost Greek tragedy by Sophocles.
One of those metaphorical phrases from Sophocles that tells us about some kind of hypochondria.
Sophocles in the Antigone called man the most strange and dreadful of all things.
I wonder what Sophocles would say.
Sophocles and Euripides added a third.

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