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  2. Sophocles - Wikipedia

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    Sophocles [a] (c. 497/496 – winter 406/405 BC) [2] was an ancient Greek tragedian known as one of three from whom at least one play has 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 .

  3. Antigone (Sophocles play) - Wikipedia

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    Liliana Cavani's 1970 I Cannibali is a contemporary political fantasy based upon the Sophocles play, with Britt Ekland as Antigone and Pierre Clémenti as Tiresias. The 1978 omnibus film Germany in Autumn features a segment by Heinrich Böll entitled "The Deferred Antigone" [ 38 ] where a fictional production of Antigone is presented to ...

  4. Category:Plays by Sophocles - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Plays by Sophocles" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Aithiopes;

  5. List of extant ancient Greek and Roman plays - Wikipedia

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    These include the comedies of Aristophanes and Menander, the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, and the Roman adaptations of Plautus, Terence and Seneca. In total, there are eighty-three mostly extant plays, forty-six from ancient Greece and thirty-seven from ancient Rome. Furthermore, there are six lost plays with extensive ...

  6. Why Are the Ancient Greeks Everywhere Again? - AOL

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    The upcoming London theatrical season boasts the staging of two Sophocles plays: Elektra, with Brie Larson, and Oedipus Rex, which Aristotle considered the greatest of all tragedies.

  7. Ajax (play) - Wikipedia

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    Sophocles' Ajax, or Aias (/ ˈ eɪ dʒ æ k s / or / ˈ aɪ. ə s /; Ancient Greek: Αἴας, gen. Αἴαντος), is a Greek tragedy written in the 5th century BCE. Ajax may be the earliest of Sophocles' seven tragedies to have survived, though it is probable that he had been composing plays for a quarter of a century already when it was first staged.

  8. Oedipus Rex - Wikipedia

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    Of Sophocles' three Theban plays that have survived, and that deal with the story of Oedipus, Oedipus Rex was the second to be written, following Antigone by about a dozen years. However, in terms of the chronology of events described by the plays, it comes first, followed by Oedipus at Colonus and then Antigone .

  9. Electra (Sophocles play) - Wikipedia

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    Electra, also Elektra or The Electra [1] (Ancient Greek: Ἠλέκτρα, [2] Ēlektra), is a Greek tragedy by Sophocles.Its date is not known, but various stylistic similarities with the Philoctetes (409 BC) and the Oedipus at Colonus (406 BC) lead scholars to suppose that it was written towards the end of Sophocles' career.