Quotes About Sophocles

Shame on the wight who when beset with ill Cares to live on in misery unrelieved.

No, but I came by, Oedipus the ignorant

A herdsman, were you? A vagabond, scraping for wages? MESSENGER: Your savior too, my son, in your worst hour.

Brothers in old age, two of a kind, he and our guest here.

Yea, Oedipus, my sovereign lord and king

One modern oratorio adaptation, The Gospel at Colonus (by Lee Breuer and Bob Telson, 1989), based on Robert Fitzgerald's translation in our series, has been acclaimed by critics and audiences as a high point of twentieth-century adaptation of Greek tragedy.

But the heart inside me sickens, dies as the land dies and now on top of the old griefs you pile this, your fury—both of you!

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You are my great example, you, your life your destiny, Oedipus, man of misery— I count no man blest.

Dark, horror of darkness my darkness, drowning, swirling around me crashing wave on wave—unspeakable, irresistible headwind, fatal harbor!

All men must cast away the great blasphemer, the curse now brought to light by the gods, the son of Laius—I, my father's son!

This Dover edition, first published in 2006, contains the unabridged republication of the plays Oedipus. Tyrannus, Oedipus. Coloneus, and Antigone from the volume The Dramas of Sophocles Rendered in English Verse Dramatic (5 Lyric by Sir George Young, as published by J. M. Dent & Sons, Ltd., London, in 1906.

stillborn, and the plague, the fiery god of fever hurls down on the city, his lightning slashing through us— raging plague in all its vengeance, devastating the house of Cadmus!

IOKASTE. So ging das Gerücht und ist noch nicht verstummt.

There was at this time in Athens an extraordinarily large number of men of genius. The three great dramatists, Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, all belong to the fifth century. Aeschylus fought at Marathon and saw the battle of Salamis. Sophocles was still religiously orthodox. But Euripides was influenced by Protagoras and by the free-thinking spirit of the time, and his treatment of the myths is sceptical and subversive. Aristophanes, the comic poet, made fun of Socrates, Sophists

All art at a certain level is entertainment. We go to a tragedy by Sophocles to be entertained.

All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.

Athens, nurse of men.

It made our hair stand up in panic fear.

Look upon OedipusThis is the king who solved the famous riddle [of the Sphinx].

The powe if fate is something terrible. It cannot be escaped--not with wealth or by war, not with a tower ir a sea-lashed black ship.

All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.

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The dramas of Æschylus certainly, and perhaps also those of Sophocles and Euripides, were played not upon the stage, and not in the theatre, but, strange though it sounds to us, in the orchestra.