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harlotscurse
scaliger
4y
Scaliger’s Ajax Lorarius
Scaliger’s Ajax Lorarius
Joseph Juste Scaliger – Part 8 ~Part 1~ Juste Scaliger During his two years in Geneva (1572-74), Joseph Juste Scaliger undertook several philological projects. One of these, his study of the Astronomica
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darkflame
stories
6y
Oedipus Rex - Great Greek Plays
Oedipus Rex - Great Greek Plays
Oedipus Rex by Sophocles OEDIPUS My children, latest born to Cadmus old, Why sit ye here as suppliants, in your hands Branches of olive filleted with wool? What means this reek of incense everywhere, And
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dahamsa
sophocles
7y
Playwrights / Dramatists - 01 - Sophocles (496-406 B. C.)
Playwrights / Dramatists - 01 - Sophocles (496-406 B. C.)
The glory of ancient Greece survives in its drama as well as in its epics, folktales, fables, and lyric poetry. The fifth century B. C. was the golden age of Greek drama when the most famous Greek dramatists
helices
mind
8y
Literature 0135
Literature 0135
A mind at peace does not engender #wars #Sophocles
sdavignon
tweet
8y
RT @thought_c9: "One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love." ― Sophocles
RT @thought_c9: "One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love." ― Sophocles
Thu May 10 01:59:14 +0000 2018 @sdavignon tweeted.RT @thought_c9: "One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love." ― Sophocles you want to cross post your tweets from
rennoelle
literature
9y
Greek Mythology--Sophocles' Ajax: Justice in Revenge
Greek Mythology--Sophocles' Ajax: Justice in Revenge
Sophocles was one of the three great Athenian tragic playwrights of the fifth-century BC, along with Aeschylus (author of Prometheus Bound) and Euripides. Ajax is one of Sophocles’ seven surviving plays,
tylerdurden000
reading
9y
Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
Synopsis: The play begins In Medias Res, where a major plague has befallen Thebes, destroying all the crops and leaving the women infertile. Oedipus, the Protagonist and King of Thebes, sends his
tylerdurden000
reading
9y
Antigone by Sophocles
Antigone by Sophocles
Plot: Antigone is the final book in Sophocles' Theban Plays(Antigone - Oedipus the King - Oedipus at Colonus) Oedipus has just passed away in Colonus, after a series of tragic and unfortunate circumstances.
stevedeery
byron
9y
#7 - Is setting goals ultimately meaningless? - Problem of the Paradox of the End - Un-reasoned optimism and pessimism
#7 - Is setting goals ultimately meaningless? - Problem of the Paradox of the End - Un-reasoned optimism and pessimism
In part #7 I will look at the role optimism and pessimism as states of mind have to play in how we view the world. In later blogs I will take you through to what I think is a resolution of the paradox.
dkabii
philosophy
9y
Analysis of the good life in Apology, Crito and Phaedo and Antigone
Analysis of the good life in Apology, Crito and Phaedo and Antigone
Various authors have over time explored the meaning of life in their works as well as the issues of morality, virtuosity, death, immortality and a good life. This is especially so for Greek writers and
walkerlv
literature
10y
book review: Oedipus Rex (Sophocles)
book review: Oedipus Rex (Sophocles)
Warning spoilers can and will be found throughout this text :) The book which I will review today is in fact a play. One of the great classical plays: Oedipus Rex by Sophocles. Even among his contemporaries

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