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Sophocles

(c.496 BC–406 BC)

Σοφοκλῆς

Works:

◊ Ajas: Szomorujáték (Hungarian)

• Αντιγόνη (Greek)

◊ Antigone (Finnish)

◊ Elektra (Hungarian)

• Οιδίπους επί Κολωνώ (Greek)

• Οιδίπους Τύραννος (Greek)

◊ Koning Oedipus (Dutch)

◊ Oedipus King of Thebes (English)

◊ Philoktetes (English)

◊ Philoktetes (Hungarian)

◊ Plays of Sophocles (English)

◊ The Seven Plays in English Verse (English)

Sophocles in Art:

Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867)
L’apothéose d’Homère
1827
Musée du Louvre, Paris

 

 

Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867)
Les Tragiques grecs
1866
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Angers

 

 

Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867)
Oedipe explique l’énigme du sphinx
1808
Musée du Louvre, Paris

 

 

Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867)
Oedipe et le Sphinx
c.1826
National Gallery, London

 

 

Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867)
Oedipe et le Sphinx
1864
Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

 

 

Sophocles in Film:

Edipo re
1967
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Starring: Silvana Mangano, Franco Citti

 

Born c.496 BC Kolonos, Athens (Greece)
Died 406 BC Athens (Greece)
Occupation Playwright Poet Writer

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