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| c.496 B.C.–406 B.C., Greek tragic dramatist, younger contemporary of Aeschylus and older contemporary of Euripides, b. Colonus, near Athens.—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright © 2002 Columbia University Press. (See also: Introductory Note from the Harvard Classics.) |
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Pronunciation:  s f´ -kl z´´ from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. |
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- WORKS
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- Oedipus the King
Unknowlingly, Oedipus kills his father and marries his mother. From the Harvard Classics, Vol. VIII, Part 5.
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- Antigone
Creon forbids the burial of those who rebelled against his rule; but, Antigone, soon to marry his son, disobeys this edict to bury her brother. From the Harvard Classics, Vol. VIII, Part 6.
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- Bartlett’s Sophocles Quotations
Epitomal selections by John Bartlett.
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- Sophocles, 54715 to 54867
Entries from the Columbia World of Quotations.
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