Sophocles
['sɔfəkli:z]
Definition
(noun.) one of the great tragedians of ancient Greece (496-406 BC).
Typist: Tabitha--From WordNet
Examples
- Oh, let us hope, when the Greek Empire is reconstructed, we will have a new Pindar, a new Sophocles, a new Plato. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- They had no Themistocles, or Pericles, or Aeschylus, or Sophocles, or Socrates, or Plato. Plato. The Republic.
- How well I remember the aged poet Sophocles, when in answer to the question, How does love suit with age, Sophocles,--are you still the man you were? Plato. The Republic.
- There was no 'second or third' to Aeschylus and Sophocles in the generation which followed them. Plato. The Republic.
- Our playwrights date from old Hellenic days, and are called ?schylus, Sophocles, and Euripides; the actors are my Greeks. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
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