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Sophocles was a Windows -based screenwriting software application used for writing feature film and television screenplays . The program first became available on the Internet in 1999. Its distinguishing features included a two window screen setup, showing ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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Athenian tragic poet (c.496-406 B.C.E.), the name is Greek Sophokles , literally "famed for wisdom," from sophos "wise" (see sophist ) + *-kles "fame" (see Damocles ). Related: Sophoclean .
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When the once applauded dramatist Aeschylus lost a prize to the currently applauded Sophocles, he was so enraged that he left Athens for Sicily, where he came to a most satisfying end.
Aeschylus built a trilogy around Agamemnon, Sophocles built a trilogy about Oedipus, and so on.
The tragedies of Sophocles and Euripides paint to me almost literally the sentiments of the red men respecting necessity, fatality, the miseries of human life, and the rigor of blind destiny.
Why did they insist upon turning what ought to have been a comedy with Verres the butt into a tragedy as great as anything Sophocles dreamed of?