As the predecessor of Sophocles and Euripides, he is called the father of Greek tragedy. ... SOPHOCLES Sophocles lived from 496 BC to 406 BC. ... Sophocles was provided with the best traditional aristocratic education. ... From 468 BC, however, Sophocles won first prize about 20 times and many second prizes. ... Sophocles composed more than 100 plays, of which 7 complete tragedies and fragments of 80 or 90 others are preserved. ...

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Sophocles Antigone is a very impressive portrayal of a woman in fifth century Athens, and she is able to produce sympathy from the audience, making the audience aware of her and other women's plights in that time. ... Sophocles, Antigone, is seen as one of the most impressive female figures in Greek tragedy. ... Sophocles" ideas of expectation of the proper behaviours can be seen as much more through Creon's words as in the action of Antigone. ... "Sophocles" Antigone shows the effect of overvaluation of the so called masculine qualities (control, subjection, culture, excessive celeb...

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Athenian society was very dynamic in many areas while it was strict in regard to the treatment of women. Although Athenian women were protected by the state and did not know a different way of living, they were very stifled and restricted. The only exception was slaves, and heteria, prostitutes, and...

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Through the addition of a second actor (by Aeschylus) and a third (by Sophocles), the representation was made possible of a drama which could show and develop a human situation in all its aspects. ... He deviates from morality or from a full knowledge of his situation, and his deviation destroys him .In Sophocles's Oedipus Rex the hero is a good-hearted but headstrong young man who kills his own father and marries his mother without knowing that they are his parents. ...

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Having these edifices constructed, Pericles, the leader of the democratic faction and a friend of Sophocles, dreamt of Athens as the leader of a panhellenic confederacy, as an ideal democracy, and above all as a city with magnificent edifices, temples, public buildings and theatres, (Durant). ...

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