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Sophocles (3583 bytes)
1: ...hocles bust.jpg|200px|thumb|right|A Roman bust of Sophocles.]]
2: ... of the three great Greek [[tragedy|tragedians]]; Sophocles was several decades younger than [[Aeschylus]] an...
6: ...any scholars, including [[Aristotle]], considered Sophocles to be the greatest playwright in ancient [[Greek ...
9: Sophocles was born about a mile northwest of Athens, in the...
13: Twelve years later, Sophocles first entered the Festival of Dionysus with his p...

Antigone (Sophocles) (2298 bytes)
4: ...''''' is a [[tragedy]] written in [[442 BC]] by [[Sophocles]]. It is chronologically the third of the [[three...
15: *[http://classics.mit.edu/Sophocles/antigone.html Translation by R. C. Jebb]

2921 Sophocles (482 bytes)
1: ... [[Tom Gehrels]] in [[1960]]. It is named after [[Sophocles]], the [[ancient Greece|ancient Greek]] [[tragedy...
3: Little is known about Sophocles beyond its [[Orbital elements|orbital parameters]...
7: [[Category:Main Belt asteroids|Sophocles]]

Electra (Sophocles) (696 bytes)
1: ... [[Play#Theatre|play]] written in [[410 BC]] by [[Sophocles]].
8: *[http://classics.mit.edu/Sophocles/electra.html Complete translation by R. C. Jebb]
15: [[nl:Electra (Sophocles)]]

Three Theban plays (1709 bytes)
1: ...written by [[Greek literature|Greek dramatist]] [[Sophocles]] in the [[5th century BC]], follow the [[tragedy...
5: *''[[Antigone (Sophocles)|Antigone]]''
7: ...gone'' was written first). As a result, either of Sophocles forgetting what he had written or through ignorin...
9: ...e time, these inconsistencies were not important. Sophocles' overall themes were fate, guilt, and divine and ...
12: *[http://classics.mit.edu/Sophocles/oedipus.html Text of Oedipus the King]

Iphianassa (571 bytes)
3: ...igeneia are one and the same. On the other hand, Sophocles does mention her, and hints that she lives in the...

Lewis Campbell (1653 bytes)
5: As a scholar he is best known by his work on [[Sophocles]] and [[Plato]]. His published works include:
6: *''Sophocles'' (2nd ed., 1879)
17: *''Sophocles'' (1896)
18: *''Tragic Drama in Aeschylus, Sophocles and [[William Shakespeare|Shakespeare]]'' (1904)

Iophon (1109 bytes)
1: '''Iophon''', [[Greek]] tragic [[poet]], son of [[Sophocles]].
5: ...being incapable of managing his affairs, to which Sophocles replied by reading the famous chorus of the ''[[O...

Greek literature (2413 bytes)
62: *[[Sophocles]]:
64: ***[[Antigone_(Sophocles)|Antigone]]
67: **[[Ajax (Sophocles)|Ajax]]
68: **[[Electra (Sophocles)|Electra]]
69: **[[Philoctetes (Sophocles)|Philoctetes]]

Ajax (1022 bytes)
8: *''[[Ajax (Sophocles)|Ajax]]'', a tragedy by [[Sophocles]]

Electra/Elektra (disambiguation) (2029 bytes)
2: ...mnestra]], who is the title character of one of [[Sophocles]]'s plays.
4: ...l spelling in English) is the name of a play by [[Sophocles]], written circa [[410 BC]], dramatizing the even...
6: ...a play by [[Hugo von Hofmannsthal]], based on the Sophocles play '''Electra'''.

Oedipus at Colonus (2604 bytes)
1: ...phocles]]. It was written ca. [[407 BC]] and was Sophocles' last play.
3: ... Legends differ as to the site of Oedipus' death; Sophocles set the place at [[Colonus]], a village near [[At...
23: *[http://classics.mit.edu/Sophocles/colonus.html Oedipus at Colonus, at the Internet ...

Eurymedon (1631 bytes)
7: ...a]]; and in [[425 BC|425]] he was appointed, with Sophocles, the son of Sostratides, to the command of an exp...
9: ...cluded by [[Hermocrates]], to which Eurymedon and Sophocles were induced to agree. The terms of the pacificat...

Colonus (345 bytes)
8: [[Oedipus]] was buried there, and [[Sophocles]]

Aristarchus of Tegea (515 bytes)
1: ...''Aristarchus of Tegea''' was a contemporary of [[Sophocles]] and [[Euripides]], who lived to be a centenaria...

Achelous (1639 bytes)
3: ...as defeated by [[Heracles]], who wed her himself. Sophocles pictures a mortal woman's terror at being courted...
10: :Such was my suitor.' (Sophocles, ''Trachiniae'')

Friedrich Wilhelm Schneidewin (1771 bytes)
5: Schneidewin's work on [[Sophocles]] and the Greek lyric poets is of permanent value...
9: *''Sophocles'' (1849-1854, revised after his death by [[Johann...

Oedipus the King (3133 bytes)
1: ...se of ''[[Oedipus at Colonus]]'' or ''[[Antigone (Sophocles)|Antigone]]''.
20: * [http://classics.mit.edu/Sophocles/oedipus.html Oedipus the King, at the Internet Cl...

Mira Furlan (1974 bytes)
11: ...ding a production of [[Sophocles]]' ''[[Antigone (Sophocles)|Antigone]]''.

Momos (826 bytes)
8: [[Sophocles]] wrote a lost [[satyr play]] called, ''Momos''.

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