Crossword-Solution: SOPHOCLES
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SOPHOCLES | anagram | CLOSESHOP |
We have 16 clues for the answer “SOPHOCLES”
| Clue | Answers |
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| "Oedipus Rex" dramatist | 1 answer |
| Author of "Antigone" | 1 answer |
| Author of "Oedipus at Colonus" | 1 answer |
| Contemporary of Aeschylus | 1 answer |
| Dramatist from Colonus | 1 answer |
| Great Greek tragedian | 1 answer |
| Ancient Greek tragedian who wrote "Oedipus Rex" | 1 answer |
| He wrote "Time eases all things" | 1 answer |
| "Antigone" dramatist | 2 answers |
| Ancient Greek philosopher | 4 answers |
| ANTIGONE AUTHOR | 10 answers |
| Antigone Father of | 10 answers |
| DAUGHTER ISMEME ANTIGONE HUSBAND | 11 answers |
| GREEK philosopher | 11 answers |
| AJAX AUTHOR | 11 answers |
| BROTHER OF ANTIGONE | 12 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
CAEMZE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with SOPHOCLES (5)
How well I remember the aged poet Sophocles, when in answer to the question, How does love suit with age, Sophocles,--are you still the man you were? Peace, he replied; most gladly have I escaped the thing of which you speak; I feel as if I had escaped from a mad and furious master.
The same audience that applauded Euripides and Sophocles in the open theatre used to cross the road the same day to applaud the athletes who ran naked in the Olympian games, and gave them as great honor.
All art, it is true, is play of a sort; the 'sport-impulse' (to translate a German phrase) is deep at the root of the artist's power; Sophocles, Shakespeare, Moliere, and Goethe, in a very profound sense, make game of life.
Fragment #13—Athenaeus, 35 C: ‘Menelaus, know that the gods made wine the best thing for mortal man to scatter cares.’ Fragment #14—Laurentian Scholiast on Sophocles, Elect.
His mental palate, indeed, was rather pagan, and found a savouriness in a quotation from Sophocles or Theocritus that was quite absent from any text in Isaiah or Amos.
Quotes with SOPHOCLES (3)
As a rule, we don't like to feel to sad or lonely or depressed. So why do we like music (or books or movies) that evoke in us those same negative emotions? Why do we choose to experience in art the very feelings we avoid in real life? Aristotle deals with a similar question in his analysis of tragedy. Tragedy, after all, is pretty gruesome. […] There's Sophocles's Oedipus, who blinds himself after learning that he has killed his father and slept with his mother. Why would any…
We can talk about our dreams all night, Lisette. We can talk forever, for the rest of our lives, living one adventure after another, I promise. But not now, my darling Lisette. For now, all I can think of is the brilliance of yet another ancient Greek, Sophocles. He said, 'One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life-that word is love.' I love you, Lisette. You bring my life joy I've never known. Please, marry me.
The stream of Time, irresistible, ever moving, carries off and bears away all things that come to birth and plunges them into utter darkness, both deeds of no account and deeds which are mighty and worthy of commemoration; as the playwright [Sophocles] says, it 'brings to light that which was unseen and shrouds from us that which was manifest.' Nevertheless, the science of History is a great bulwark against this stream of Time; in a way it checks this irresistible flood, it h…
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Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT.
Used 9 times in crossword archives (1972–2018).