latimes.com: Review: Aztec Empire rises in gripping spectacle with reimagining of Sophocles’ ‘Antigone’ at Getty Villa
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Sophocles
Sophocles was an ancient Greek tragedian, one of three from whom at least two plays have survived in full. His first plays were written later than, or contemporary with, those of Aeschylus and earlier than, or contemporary with, those of Euripides. Sophocles wrote more than 120 plays, but only seven have survived in a complete form: Ajax, Antigone, Women of Trachis, Oedipus Rex, Electra, Philoctet…
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culture · 5th-century BC Athenian tragic playwright · tragedy writer · playwright · writer · priest · politician · philosopher · also Sophocles
Born 496 BC · Died 406 BC · Q7235
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2026· 11 entries
City AM: Electra/Persona at the National Theatre review: A dull mash-up of Sophocles and Bergman
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The Observer: Electra/Persona: Sophocles meets Ingmar Bergman is all Swedish to me
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BroadwayWorld: Greek Theater on Screen: Sophocles' Electra Photos and Videos at Symphony Space 2026 48889
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X-Press Magazine: Greek Theatre Now bring Sophocles’ classic tragedy to Kings Park - X-Press Magazine
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The Guardian: Electra/Persona review – Blanchett and Hoss face off in lopsided Sophocles/Bergman double bill
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“After practising to the full the bigness of Aeschylus, then the painful ingenuity of my own invention, now in the third stage I am changing to the kind of diction which is most expressive of character and best.”
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“s works. C. M. Bowra argues for the following translation of the line:”
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“s work, meaning that he went through a phase of imitating Aeschylus”
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West End Theatre: Sophocles meets Ingrid Bergman: Cate Blanchett and Nina Hoss in rehearsals for Electra/Persona at the National Theatre
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The Guardian: ‘People say I’m pouring Coca-Cola into fine malt whisky’: why is the National Theatre shaking up Sophocles?
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2025· 1 entry
The Guardian: Why is Sophocles storming the West End? Because in our extreme times, his plays say the unsayable
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2021· 2 entries
“Citation choisie pour le 31 juillet 2021.”
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“Citation choisie pour le 1 juillet 2021.”
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2019· 1 entry
Los Angeles Times: At the Getty Villa, Sophocles gets wounded in Aaron Posner’s revamp of ‘Philoctetes’
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2018· 1 entry
The Guardian: Sophocles’ stories are ours as well
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2017· 1 entry
Forbes: It's Elementary, My Dear Oedipus: Sophocles' Oedipus Rex
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2016· 2 entries
The New Yorker: Theatre of War: Sophocles’ Message for American Veterans
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“Citation choisie pour le 16 novembre 2016.”
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2014· 3 entries
The Guardian: Antigone review – engaging gangland Sophocles
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“Citation choisie pour le 25 mai 2014.”
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“Citation choisie pour le 28 décembre 2014.”
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2008· 1 entry
“Antígona - Sófocles, L&PM Pocket, 2008, p.91.”
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1990· 1 entry
“Greek text cited from H. Lloyd-Jones, N. G. Wilson, Sophoclis Fabulae (Oxford, 1990).”
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1930· 1 entry
“[Sofocle, Tragedie, traduzione di Felice Bellotti, Milano, Sonzogno, 1930]”
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1919· 4 entries
“Line 485–486 (tr. R. C. Trevelyan, 1919)”
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“Line 522–524 (tr. R. C. Trevelyan, 1919)”
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“Lines 964–965 (tr. R. C. Trevelyan, 1919)”
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“Lines 479–480 (tr. R. C. Trevelyan, 1919)”
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1907· 6 entries
“Woman, to women silence is the best ornament. (Cassell's, 1907)”
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“The gifts of enemies are not gifts, and have no value. (Cassell's, 1907)”
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“Line 786 (Cassell's, 1907)”
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“Line 554 (Cassell's, 1907)”
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“Line 1125 (Cassell's, 1907)”
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“For kindness is ever the begetter of kindness. (Cassell's, 1907)”
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1896· 10 entries
“Line 79 (tr. R. C. Jebb, 1896)”
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“Line 765 (tr. R. C. Jebb, 1896)”
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“Line 665 (tr. R. C. Jebb, 1896)”
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“Lines 550–551 (tr. R. C. Jebb, 1896); Compare Lucius Accius: Virtuti sis par, dispar fortunis patris.”
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“Line 970 (tr. R. C. Jebb, 1896)”
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“Lines 1418–1420; closing lines (tr. R. C. Jebb, 1896)”
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“Line 293 (tr. R. C. Jebb, 1896)”
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“Lines 154–159 (tr. R. C. Jebb, 1896)”
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“Lines 131–132 (tr. R. C. Jebb, 1896)”
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“Line 866 (tr. R. C. Jebb, 1896)”
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1865· 1 entry
“Alternative translation (E. H. Plumptre, 1865):”
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