Definitions for Sophocles

Sophocles Soph·o·cles

Spelling: [sof-uh-kleez]
IPA: /ˈsɒf əˌkliz/

Sophocles is a 9 letter English word.

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Definitions for Sophocles

noun

  1. 495?–406? b.c, Greek dramatist.

Examples for Sophocles

Aeschylus wrote some 90 plays and Sophocles about 120; seven from each of them have survived.

There was no 'second or third' to Aeschylus and Sophocles in the generation which followed them.

I hear the nightingales' sweet song In answer to the song of Sophocles!

I admire also Sophocles as a tragedian, Polycleitus as a sculptor, and Zeuxis as a painter.

The Sampson Agonistes is formed upon the model of Sophocles.

Virginia Woolf, however, did read Greek; she was translating Sophocles while she was writing Mrs. Dalloway.

Is there not an infusion of Xenophon in Sophocles, as compared to Æschylus,—a dilution?

I am like the man in Sophocles—always the possession of the last speaker!

Manifold the wonders,” said Sophocles, “nothing towers more wondrous than man!

Lectures with reading and study of the plays of Æschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides.

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