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Journal articles on the topic "Sophocles Greek language"

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Nervegna, Sebastiana. "SOSITHEUS AND HIS ‘NEW’ SATYR PLAY." Classical Quarterly 69, no. 1 (2019): 202–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0009838819000569.

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Active in Alexandria during the second half of the third century, Dioscorides is the author of some forty epigrams preserved in the Anthologia Palatina. Five of these epigrams are concerned with Greek playwrights: three dramatists of the archaic and classical periods, Thespis, Aeschylus and Sophocles, and two contemporary ones, Sositheus and Machon. Dioscorides conceived four epigrams as two pairs (Thespis and Aeschylus, Sophocles and Sositheus) clearly marked by verbal connections, and celebrates each playwright for his original contribution to the history of Greek drama. Thespis boasts to have discovered tragedy; Aeschylus to have elevated it. The twin epigrams devoted to Sophocles and Sositheus present Sophocles as refining the satyrs and Sositheus as making them, once again, primitive. Finally, Machon is singled out for his comedies as ‘worthy remnants of ancient art (τέχνης … ἀρχαίης)’. Dioscorides’ miniature history of Greek drama, which is interesting both for its debts to the ancient tradition surrounding classical playwrights and for the light it sheds on contemporary drama, clearly smacks of archaizing sympathies. They drive Dioscorides’ selection of authors and his treatment of contemporary dramatists: both Sositheus and Machon are praised for consciously looking back to the masters of the past. My focus is on Sositheus and his ‘new’ satyr-play. After discussing the relationship that Dioscorides establishes between Sophocles’ and Sositheus’ satyrs, and reviewing scholarly interpretations of Sositheus’ innovations, I will argue that Dioscorides speaks the language of New Music. His epigram celebrates Sositheus as rejecting New Music and its trends, and as composing satyr plays that were musically old fashioned and therefore reactionary.
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Dafni, Evangelia G. "COLLECTIVE GUILT AND SELF-SACRIFICE IN SOPHOCLES’ ANTIGONE AND IN II & IV MACCABEES – PRELIMINARY CULTURAL-CRITICAL REMARKS." Journal for Semitics 24, no. 1 (2017): 198–215. http://dx.doi.org/10.25159/1013-8471/3444.

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Jewish-Hellenistic authors use language and ideas of ancient Greek tragedies in order to express their own religious and theological standpoints and make them accessible to the Greek-speaking world. This article highlights the significance of Sophocles’ Antigone for a cultural-critical understanding of the concepts of collective guilt and self-sacrifice in II Macc 6-7 and IV Macc
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Jackson, Lucy. "Proximate Translation: George Buchanan's Baptistes, Sophocles’ Antigone, and Early Modern English Drama." Translation and Literature 29, no. 1 (2020): 85–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/tal.2020.0410.

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This essay takes up the question of what impact Greek tragedy had on original plays written in Latin in the sixteenth century. In exploring George Buchanan's biblical drama Baptistes sive calumnia (printed 1577) and its reworking of scenes and images from Sophocles' Antigone, we see how neo-Latin drama provided a valuable channel for the sharing and shaping of early modern ideas about Greek tragedy. The impact of the Baptistes on English drama is then examined, with particular reference to Thomas Watson's celebrated Latin translation of Antigone (1581). The strange affinities between Watson's and Buchanan's plays reveal the potential for Greek tragedy to shape early modern drama, but also for early modern drama to shape how Greek tragedy itself was read and received in early modern England.
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Dik, Helma. "ON UNEMPHATIC 'EMPHATIC' PRONOUNS IN GREEK: NOMINATIVE PRONOUNS IN PLATO AND SOPHOCLES." Mnemosyne 56, no. 5 (2003): 535–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156852503770735943.

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AbstractThe nominative forms γ and σ of the Greek personal pronoun are traditionally described as exclusively 'emphatic'. This paper argues, on the basis of examples from Plato and Sophocles, that these pronouns are often better understood as un emphatic, as becomes clear from their treatment as postpositives rather than 'Mobile' words.
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Saxonhouse, Arlene W. "The Tyranny of Reason in the World of the Polis." American Political Science Review 82, no. 4 (1988): 1261–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1961759.

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The modern language of tyranny has distorted the significance of the Greek term tyrannos. In ancient Greek the term was accorded to the new ruler in the city, one whose legitimacy did not reside in his bonds to the ancient rulers and ancient families. Tyranny thus suggested a freedom from the past. Reason, as the Greeks understood it, also entailed a breaking away from the physical world. Reason and tyranny thus work together as expressions of freedom, but it is a freedom that in its transcendence of boundaries leads to tragedy. An examination of Sophocles' Oedipus draws out both the glory and the failure of the individual attempt of the political actor to rise above the historical particular and the mere body to build a world where reason alone is power.
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Marieta Hernández, Iñaki. "Antroposofía y tragedia en la interpretación heideggeriana de la Antígona de Sófocles." Revista de Filosofía Laguna, no. 47 (2020): 11–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.25145/j.laguna.2020.47.01.

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To the humanist proposal about the essence of human developed by the kantian anthropology, Heidegger replies with a tragic anthroposophy. From the ontological difference he finds in the Antigone of Sophocles, based on the Kehre and Hölderlin as a guide, the hermeneutics clue which designates the human condition: deinótaton. This way of thinking, developed based on the presocratics and founded on the new understanding of being as happening, is settled on a phenomenologic-hermeneutics understanding of the language which will make Greek and German become those languages which answer the call of being according to alétheia’s demands.
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VAN STEEN, GONDA. "THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH: THE ANTIGONE OF ARIS ALEXANDROU, A PLAY OF ISLAND DETENTION FROM THE GREEK CIVIL WAR." Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies 54, no. 1 (2011): 115–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.2011.00019.x.

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Abstract This article offers a thematic reading of the Antigone play that the Greek poet Aris Alexandrou finished writing in 1951, while pushed into isolation on the prison islands for leftist detainees of the Greek Civil War. It also discusses the 2003 stage production of the play by director Victor Arditti and the State Theatre of Northern Greece. Alexandrou's free adaptation of Sophocles' Antigone delivers the complex other side of the radical resistance that inspired postwar Greek politics and culture. The playwright's political views made him suffer exile within the ‘internal exile’ of his detainment on the prison islands, and the same holds true for his young and idealist protagonist Antigone. Thus the play becomes an essential piece of the less well documented debate between the Greek Left and those pushed out from within. Therefore, too, it has been particularly vulnerable to criticism – or to a fate worse than criticism: oblivion.
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Finglass, P. J. "Greek Tragedy and Political Philosophy. Rationalism and Religion in Sophocles’ Theban Plays." Mnemosyne 64, no. 4 (2011): 665–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156852511x548388.

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Sorum, Christina Elliott, and Mary Whitlock Blundell. "Helping Friends and Harming Enemies: A Study in Sophocles and Greek Ethics." American Journal of Philology 112, no. 2 (1991): 270. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/294726.

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Lada-Richards, Ismene. "Staging the Ephebeia: Theatrical Role-Playing and Ritual Transition in Sophocles' Philoctetes." Ramus 27, no. 1 (1998): 1–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0048671x00001910.

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The last two decades have seen a renewed emphasis on studies falling within the general area of Ritual and Drama. The majority of extant plays have been scrutinised in the search for ritual schemes and sequences, metaphors and allusions remoulded in their imagery and language, and some of the juiciest discussions of Greek theatre have emerged as a result. Nevertheless, compared to this proliferation of studies on particular aspects of ritual symbolism and ritual patterns, few scholars have attempted to investigate the ways in which ritual and theatre can interrelate and unfold in parallel at the level of dramatic plots. Brilliant, albeit isolated, examples of this type of inquiry can be sought in Froma Zeitlin's unequalled pieces on Aristophanes' Thesmophoriazusae and Euripides' Ion; in the rewarding work of Foley, Segal, Goldhill on the Bacchae as well as in Bowie's ‘ritual’ reading of Aristophanic plots and Seaford's monumental study of Dionysiac patterns in fifth-century Greek tragedy.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Sophocles Greek language"

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Lahuec, Tiphaine. "Poétique, thèmes et contexte des lamentations dans la tragédie grecque." Thèse, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/23605.

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Contrairement à la lamentation rituelle, les lamentations tragiques sont réalisées dans un large éventail de situations. En effet, elles peuvent avoir lieu avant l’événement déploré, porter sur d’autres malheurs qu’un décès, ou encore lamenter le sort de la personne même qui mène la lamentation. Cette variété de contextes est vraisemblablement à l’origine de la grande diversité de formes et de contenus des lamentations que l’on trouve dans le corpus tragique. De quelle façon les tragédiens modifient-ils la forme traditionnelle de la lamentation ? Ces modifications dépendent-elles d’éléments contextuels particuliers ? Pour répondre à ces questions, j’examinerai trois passages : Cassandre dans l’Agamemnon d’Eschyle, Créon dans l’Antigone de Sophocle et Polymestor dans l’Hécube d’Euripide. Ces trois lamentations ont lieu dans des contextes très différents, notamment en ce qui concerne l’identité du lamentant (genre, âge, statut social, ethnicité) et la relation que celui-ci entretient avec le Chœur. De surcroît, elles ont été composées par des auteurs et à des dates différentes, ce qui permettra de prendre en compte l’évolution de la forme au cours du Vème siècle avant J.-C. L’analyse suggère que la forme de la lamentation du personnage s’adapte surtout à son ethnicité et à son genre, tandis que la participation du Chœur dépend directement de sa relation avec le lamentant. Parfois, la stylistique est également influencée par le style propre à l’auteur ou par la date de composition de la pièce. Quant au contenu, les thèmes abordés sont principalement déterminés par la position et la fonction du passage dans la tragédie. Puisque les fonctions d’une lamentation tragique sont différentes de celles d’une lamentation rituelle, le modèle de la lamentation funèbre est insuffisant pour guider à lui seul l’analyse du contenu d’une lamentation tragique.<br>Unlike ritual laments, tragic laments take place in a wide range of situations. Some are made over troubles other than an actual death, over events that have not happened yet, or over the mourner himself. This seems to be why we find such a huge diversity of both forms and contents of laments within the tragic corpus. How do the tragic poets modify the traditional form of the lament? Do these changes depend on specific contextual elements? In order to answer these questions, I will examine three laments: Cassandra’s in Aeschylus’ Agamemnon, Creon’s in Sophocles’ Antigone and Polymestor’s in Euripides’ Hecuba. These three passages show major contextual discrepancies, especially when it comes to the identity of the mourner (gender, age, social status, ethnicity) and their relationship to the Chorus. Moreover, they were composed by different authors at different times, which accounts for the evolution of the literary form during the 5th century B.C. These contextual differences allow us to identify specific ties between the context and the lament itself. The form of the actor’s part depends mostly on the mourner’s ethnicity and gender, while the Chorus’ part suits its relationship with the mourner. The stylistics of the lament may also result from the author’s personal preferences or from the date of composition. As for the content, it is heavily determined by the position and the function of the passage within the play. As the functions of a tragic lament differ from those of a ritual lament, the model given by ritual lament cannot serve as the only basis for the analysis of a tragic lament’s content.
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Books on the topic "Sophocles Greek language"

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Sophocles. Sophocles. 2nd ed. University of Chicago Press, 1991.

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Sophocles. Sophocles. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998.

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Sophocles. Sophocles. Edited by Jebb, Richard Claverhouse, Sir, 1841-1905., Easterling P. E, and March Jennifer R. Bristol Classical Press, 2004.

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Sophocles. Sophocles. Harvard University Press, 1997.

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Sophocles. Sophocles. Harvard University Press, 1994.

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Budelmann, Felix. The language of Sophocles: Communality, communication, and involvement. Cambridge University Press, 2000.

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Sophocles. Sophocles: Plays. Edited by Jebb, Richard Claverhouse, Sir, 1841-1905., Easterling P. E, and Goward Barbara. Bristol Classical Press, 2004.

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Sophocles. Sophocles: Plays. Edited by Jebb, Richard Claverhouse, Sir, 1841-1905., Easterling P. E, and Blondell Ruby 1954-. Bristol Classical Press, 2004.

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Sophocles. Sophocles: Plays. Edited by Jebb, Richard Claverhouse, Sir, 1841-1905 and Easterling P. E. Bristol Classical Press, 2004.

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Sophocles. Sophocles: Plays. Bristol Classical, 2004.

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Book chapters on the topic "Sophocles Greek language"

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"SOPHOCLES’ VOICE. ACTIVE, MIDDLE, AND PASSIVE IN THE PLAYS OF SOPHOCLES." In Sophocles and the Greek Language. BRILL, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789047417422_009.

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"INDEX OF GREEK WORDS." In Sophocles and the Greek Language. BRILL, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789047417422_019.

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"TROPE AND SETTING IN SOPHOCLES’ ELECTRA." In Sophocles and the Greek Language. BRILL, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789047417422_013.

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"‘YOU COULD HAVE THOUGHT’: PAST POTENTIALS IN SOPHOCLES?" In Sophocles and the Greek Language. BRILL, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789047417422_012.

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"Preliminary Material." In Sophocles and the Greek Language. BRILL, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789047417422_001.

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"J.C. KAMERBEEK. THE MAN BEHIND THE BOOKS." In Sophocles and the Greek Language. BRILL, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789047417422_002.

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"WEAPONS AND DAY’S WHITE HORSES: THE LANGUAGE OF AJAX." In Sophocles and the Greek Language. BRILL, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789047417422_003.

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"SOPHOCLES AND HOMER: SOME ISSUES OF VOCABULARY." In Sophocles and the Greek Language. BRILL, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789047417422_004.

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"WORDS IN THE CONTEXT OF BLINDNESS." In Sophocles and the Greek Language. BRILL, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789047417422_005.

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"SOPHOCLES’ SATYR-PLAYS AND THE LANGUAGE OF ROMANCE." In Sophocles and the Greek Language. BRILL, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789047417422_006.

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