The complete online text of The Seven Plays in English Verse by Sophocles.

During the fifth century B.C., the Golden Age of Athens, new forms of art and literature were being developed with extraordinary speed and energy. One of the most important of these forms was Tragedy, and the preeminence of Aeschylus. Sophocles, and Euri...

During the fifth century B.C., the Golden Age of Athens, new forms of art and literature were being developed with extraordinary speed and energy. One of the most important of these forms was Tragedy, and the preeminence of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euri...

The Greek tragedian Sophocles (496-406 BC) ranks foremost among Greek classical dramatists and has been called the poet of Greek humanism par excellence. The son of Sophilus, a well-to-do industrialist, Sophocles was born in Colonus near Athens and grew...

Lightening the load Christopher Ricks, editor Oxford University Press, 690 pages, $39.95 The Oxford Book of English Verse is exactly one hundred years old. The first editor was a gentleman-amateur, Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, who was appointed Professor of English Literature at...

1. Symmetry and Periodicity in Nature and Culture Natural systems, like molecules, cells, organisms, solar systems, stars and galaxies, exhibit stability that persists for a while, and then disperses. Their stability is manifest in geometric forms that are often highly symmetrical, and that...