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标 题: Sophocles
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Sophocles - was born about 496 BC in Colonus Hippius (now part of Athens),
he was to become one of the great playwrights of the golden age. The son of
a wealthy merchant, he would enjoy all the comforts of a thriving Greek emp
ire. Sophocles was provided with the best traditional aristocratic education
. He studied all of the arts. By the age of sixteen, he was already known fo
r his beauty and grace and was chosen to lead a choir of boys at a celebrati
on of the victory of Salamis in 480 BC. In 468 BC, at the age of 28, he defe
ated Aeschylus, whose pre-eminence as a tragic poet had long been undisputed
, in a dramatic competition.
In 441 BC he was in turn defeated in one of the annual Athenian dramatic com
petitions by Euripides. From 468 BC, however, Sophocles won first prize abou
t 20 times and many second prizes. His life, which ended in 406 BC at about
the age of 90, coincided with the period of Athenian greatness. He was not p
olitically active or militarily inclined, but the Athenians twice elected hi
m to high military office.
Sophocles wrote more than 100 plays of which seven complete tragedies and fr
agments of 80 or 90 others are preserved. He was the first to add a third ac
tor. He also abolished the trilogic form. Sophocles chose to make each trage
dy a complete entity in itself--as a result, he had to pack all of his actio
n into the shorter form, and this clearly offered greater dramatic possibili
ties. Sophocles also effected a transformation in the spirit and significanc
e of a tragedy; thereafter, although religion and morality were still major
dramatic themes, the plights, decisions and fates of individuals became the
chief interest of Greek tragedy.
Sophocles' Plays:
Ajax written 440 B.C.E trans. by R. C. Trevelyan
Antigone written 442 B.C.E trans. by R. C. Jebb
Electra written 410 B.C.E trans. by R. C. Jebb
Oedipus at Colonus trans. by F. Storr
Oedipus the King trans. by F. Storr
Philoctetes written 409 B.C.E trans. by Thomas Francklin
The Trachiniae written 430 B.C.E trans. by R. C. Jebb
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