1 | [[quoteright:275:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sophocle.jpg]] |
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3 | Sophocles (497/6 – 406/5 BC) is one of the three Greek tragedians whose work has survived to the present day (the others being Creator/{{Aeschylus}} and Creator/{{Euripides}}). |
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5 | His best-known work is the play ''Theatre/OedipusTheKing''. |
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7 | !! Tragedies by Sophocles on the wiki: |
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9 | * ''Theatre/{{Ajax}}'' |
10 | * ''Theatre/{{Electra}}'' |
11 | * ''Oedipus'' tetralogy |
12 | ## ''Theatre/OedipusTheKing'' |
13 | ## ''Theatre/OedipusAtColonus'' |
14 | ## ''Theatre/TheProgeny'', a fragment -- no more than a few lines have survived. |
15 | ## ''Theatre/{{Antigone}}'' |
16 | * ''Theatre/{{Philoctetes}}'' |
17 | * ''Theatre/TheWomenOfTrachis'' |
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19 | !! Tropes present in the works of Sophocles include: |
20 | * DownerEnding: Well, it's not called tragedy for nothing. |
21 | * ForegoneConclusion: Some plot points in many of his lost plays are known from other sources. |
22 | ** DidTheyOrDidntThey: ''Odysseus Acanthoplex'' is based off the version of the myth where Odysseus and Circe did. |
23 | ** DisproportionateRetribution: Atreus' revenge on the title character in ''Thyestes'' |
24 | ** ImAHumanitarian: ''Tereus'', ''Thyestes'' |
25 | ** MamasBabyPapasMaybe: There's a play called ''Creusa'', and the only Creusa known in Myth/ClassicalMythology is from Creator/{{Euripides}}' ''Ion''. |
26 | ** OffingTheOffspring: ''Tereus'' |
27 | ** [[HeWhoFightsMonsters She Who Fights Monsters]]: Procne in ''Tereus''. |
28 | * GreekChorus: Creator/{{Aristotle}} in ''Literature/{{Poetics}}'' cited him as how choruses ''should'' work. |
29 | * MissingEpisode: More than a hundred. |
30 | * RummageSaleReject: According to Creator/{{Aristophanes}}'s comedy ''Theatre/TheBirds'', the hoopoe costume in the lost play ''Tereus'' was ridiculous. |
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