The association of music and drama goes back all the way to ancient Greece with the plays of Euripides and Sophocles. |
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On the whole, Lefkowitz steers by more familiar landmarks, including the great classical dramatists like Aeschylus and Sophocles among her poets. |
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In Sophocles and in Seneca, the Theban chorus are almost unshakably loyal to their king. |
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Machiavelli drew a similar contrast between himself and his predecessors, although he, unlike Sophocles and Raphael, added a value judgment. |
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The staggering fact is that for centuries the plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides went virtually unperformed on the British stage. |
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Indeed, innovation in scene painting is associated with Sophocles, albeit in a passage of Aristotle which may be interpolated. |
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The most notable of the playwrights are Aeschylus, Euripides and Sophocles. |
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Seneca produced his own versions of tragedies by Sophocles, Euripides, and Aeschylus. |
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The characters in the tragedies of Sophocles resist all warnings and inescapably meet with disaster. |
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An unavenged murder could in extreme cases cause barrenness and crop failure, as in Sophocles ' Oedipus the King. |
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It's almost as though Ang Lee went back in time with a boatload of Hulk books and gave them to Sophocles to read and write a play about. |
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He meets on board an eccentric Egyptologist named Sophocles Sarcophagus in search of Kih-Oskh's tomb. |
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This newspaper, writing a week after his suicide, described the tragedy as one worthy of Aeschylus or Sophocles. |
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Sophocles wrote his work as a reaction to the banning from Athens of Themistocles, the hero of the naval battle of Salamis. |
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The pillar of Western civilization, Greece is the birthplace of democracy and the Olympics, the land of Plato, Sophocles and Homer. |
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Introductions to some plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, based on the Didascaliae of Aristotle and on Peripatetic research, are extant in an abbreviated form. |
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In such manner Sophocles leads his tragedy toward an ultimate assertion of values. |
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Aeschylus' younger rival, Sophocles, then added a third actor, the tritagonist, and was able to write more complex, more natural dialogue. |
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In the years thereafter, Aeschylus found his muse and became one of the three celebrated 5th-century-BC Athenian tragedians, alongside Sophocles and Euripides. |
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Philomela, by British composer James Dillon, inspired by Ovid and Sophocles, is his first scenic work. |
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They want to make us feel the sentiments expressed in the words that Sophocles placed on the lips of Antigone, as she contemplated the horror all around her: my nature is not to join in hate but to join in love. |
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If you walk among them, you begin to hear – above the batter of waves on rock – a fragmentary soundscape of poems about love, snatches of Sappho, Sophocles and Shakespeare. |
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Mudimbe has depicted this by reference to Tiresias, whose liberating art of piercing into the unspeakable is characterised by Sophocles, Euripides, Apollodorus of Athens, Ovid. |
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Indeed, his autodidactic reading ranged widely from Plato to Nietzsche, Sophocles to Browning, and Darwin to Einstein. |
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Her death was avenged on Creone by Theseus, and her name has been immortalized in a tragedy by Sophocles. |
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Other Greek authors making reference to the narcissus include Sophocles and Plutarch. |
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And if the character of Electra has inspired such authors as Sophocles to Eugene O'Neill, it is that what it incarnates, filial piety and vengeful hate, finds its echo in all times and boarders. |
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The tragic playwrights Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides took most of their plots from myths of the age of heroes and the Trojan War. |
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Performance of Oedipus Rex by Sophocles at the Roman Theatre in Mérida. |
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The judging committee involved the oenologists Marcos Zambartas of Zambartas Winery and Sophocles Vlassides of Vlassides winery. |
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These revelations softly but definitively shake the myths of Sophocles and Freud, and illuminate women's echoing silence in the history of the world. |
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To escape his oppressive environment, he turned to texts by Sophocles, Euripides and Shakespearefor a perspective on the living and the dead, on memory and oblivion. |
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The workshop will lead to an evening of readings and songs that explore the roots of Western drama in the plays of such writers as Sophocles, Euripides, Aeschylus and Aristophanes. |
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Under his direction, she acted in some of the most important shows in the 1980s: Electra by Sophocles, The Satin Slipper by Paul Claudel, Galileo by Bertolt Brecht and La Celestina by Fernando de Rojas. |
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And so with Molière, Marlowe, Shaw, and Ibsen: they mirrored their times and scrutinized the spirits of men and women as truthfully as did Aristophanes, Euripides, Aeschylus and Sophocles. |
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