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…Laws of the City-State vs. Higher Law as Seen in Sophocles' "Antigone" In Ancient Greece, after 800 bc., new ideas came to the forefront concerning the governing of society. These ideas led to a more organized leadership and a government whose…

…Blindness plays a two-fold part in Sophocles’ tragedy “Oedipus the King.” First, Sophocles presents blindness as a physical disability affecting the auger Teiresias, and later Oedipus; but later, blindness comes to mean an inability to see…

…Tragedy can occur no matter what one does to try to prevent it. Whether one tries to act to avoid a tragedy, or does not act to avoid it, tragedy will happen anyway. In Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex, Oedipus tries to avoid tragedy by running away from…

…Oedipus Rex as a Tragedy Oedipus Rex, written by Greek playwright Sophocles, is considered to be one of the most ingenious yet disturbing plays ever to be written. This drama has greatly influenced Western culture, as elements of this play can…

…if I die in the act, that death will be a glory” (Sophocles 1045). She also admits that her departure from the mortals’ world would help her escape her miserable life (referring to her family loss). She is just too perfect to be a tragic hero; she only…

…of their respective publics (namely, Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address). Parallels of Athenian culture in Pericles’s speech can also be seen in works of the great playwright Sophocles. In this paper I will compare both the Gettysburg Address and Sophocles’s plays…

…sicinnis. In the original plays, up until Sophocles the poet started to write plays, there were always twelve member of the chorus. They marched onstage together in a square formation. When Sophocles began writing plays, he added three additional choral…

…, by Sophocles, Oedipus and Iocaste sought help from these sources in their times of need. It was their arrogance and fear that caused them to be skeptical of the oracle's prophecy. Their efforts to escape the inevitable blinded them from the truth when it began…

…, in a tragedy it was called the emmelia, and in a satiric drama, it was called sicinnis. In the original plays, up until Sophocles the poet started to write plays, there were always twelve member of the chorus. They marched onstage together in a square formation…

…or tragedy. In a comedy, the chorus was called the codrax, in a tragedy it was called the emmelia, and in a satiric drama, it was called sicinnis. In the original plays, up until Sophocles the poet started to write plays, there were always twelve member…