Concept
Sophocles
Overview
ancient Greek playwright
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These, then, as we said at the beginning, are the three differences which distinguish artistic imitation,--the medium, the objects, and the manner. So that from one point of view, Sophocles is an imitator of the same kind as Homer--for both imitate higher types of character; from another point of view, of the same kind as Aristophanes--for both imitate persons acting and doing. Hence, some say, the name of 'drama'…
Aristotle, The Poetics of Aristotle
States what Sophocles is; the author is tied to Sophocles in the knowledge graph.
"You say true, Demosthenes," replied Satyrus, "but I will quickly remedy the cause of all this, if you will repeat to me some passage out of Euripides or Sophocles." When Demosthenes had pronounced one, Satyrus presently taking it up after him, gave the same passage, in his rendering of it, such a new form, by accompanying it with the proper mien and gesture, that to Demosthenes it…
Plutarch, The Boys' and Girls' Plutarch
The author is tied to Sophocles in the knowledge graph; names Sophocles.
Although Greece had in his time produced several persons of extraordinary worth, and much renowned for their achievements, such as Timotheus and Agesilaus and Pelopidas and (Timoleon's chief model) Epaminondas, yet the lustre of their best actions was obscured by a degree of violence and labor, insomuch that some of them were matter of blame and of repentance; whereas there is not any one act of Timoleon's, setting…
Plutarch, Plutarch
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Philosophers who discussed Sophocles
- Aristophanes
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Heraclides Ponticus
- Anaxagoras
- Hermann Lotze
- Paul Valéry
- Sappho
- Aristotle
- Voltaire
- Dicaearchus
- Paul Feyerabend
- Ion of Chios
- Polemon of Athens
- Hecataeus of Abdera
- María Zambrano
Related ideas
- Symposium (ancient Greece)
- Athens
- Polis
- Classical Athens
- Heracles
- Athenaeus
- Library of Alexandria
- Mercury (planet)
- Aeschylus
- Drama
- Actor
- Plutarch
- Socrates
- Sicily
- Troy
- Aristotle
- Achaemenid Empire
- Theseus
- University of Oxford
- Deipnosophistae
- Samos
- Sparta
- Pericles
- Fatalism
Place in the tradition
Part of Anarchism.