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The Trachiniae by Sophocles

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Author Biography

Name: Sophocles
Birth Date: 496 B.C.
Death Date: 406 B.C.
Place of Birth: Colonus
Nationality: Greek
Gender: Male
Occupations: dramatist

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Biography of Sophocles
5009 words, approx. 16.7 pages
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...
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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...
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Biography of Sophocles
1740 words, approx. 5.8 pages
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...


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Hercules on his funeral pyre by Hans Sebald...


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Plays of Sophocles: Trachiniae (Women Of Trachis) (413? B.C.)
01/01/1963: 3,724 words, approx. 12 pages
Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 Trachiniae (Women Of Trachis) (413? B.C.) Background: The Trachiniae is thought to have been written after Euripides' Heracles and to have been influenced by it. Some of its structural features are less characteristic of Sophocles than Euripides: the expository opening speech;...


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