PPT-Sophocles

His Years of Life 496406 BC Age 91 Sophocles was an ancient Greek playwright born in Colonus near Athens Greece in 496 BCE His father Sophilus was a rich member of a small community the rural Deme Sophocles was highly educated He is one of three Greek tragedians whose plays have lived on The . 2. Sophocles. Oedipus the king [in Greek]. Athens: Kaktos; 1993. 3. Sophocles. Storr F, translator. Oedipus the king. London: William 4. Rousos T. Comments on Oedipus Rex by the philology grou Oedipus The King. Major Characters. Oedipus. Creon. Chorus. Tiresias. Jocasta. Messenger. Oedipus. King of Thebes. Ruled by fate from Apollo. Destined to marry mother and kill father. Raised by King and Queen of Corinth. Oedipus Rex. You have been summoned by a Greek oracle to have your future told to you…what news does she impart to you concerning your fate and your destiny?. Journal Entry…Imagine. “The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities”-. Sophocles’ . Oedipus at Colonus. 1. Agenda. Recap and Update. OAC. Intro, Background, etc.. Tragedy in Performance. “A Little to the Left?” (What’s Oedipus stepped into?). Oedipal Reversals. Add a Slide Title - 1. Antigone. . By Sophocles.  . . Translated . by R. C. . Jebb. Dramatis Personae.  . ANTIGONE. and . ISMENE. : . Daughters . of . Oedipus. CREON. ,. King of . and . Nolan. Tertiary heavenly descendents:. Gaia → Titans → Gods/Goddesses. Greeks at the time saw the Gods as embodiments of feelings or thoughts; they thought that the Gods existed in a parallel to themselves.. “I am no man”. Image from cover, Casey . Dué. . The Captive Women’s Lament in Greek Tragedy. Agenda. Adventures in Critical Thinking. Creon’s Counselors…. Recap and Update. Play and Its “Ideological Horizons” . Irony. Dramatic Irony. Occurs when the audience is privy to knowledge that one or more of the characters lacks. The technique can be used in for comic or tragic effects. In Homer’s . Odyssey. , the long-absent Odysseus’s disguised as a beggar provides poignant dramatic irony as he encounters various beloved family members and hated rivals but, for the sake of his intended revenge, must refrain from revealing his true identity. Again, the audience is flattered by being allowed to share in the omniscient point of view often reserved for the author. (Hamilton 46).. Symbol. A . symbol . is an object, action, or event that represents something or that creates a range of associations beyond itself.  In “Oedipus the King,” what are the symbol(s) that express an idea, clarify meaning, or enlarge literal meaning? Analyze how those symbol(s) functions in the play and what it reveals about the characters or themes of the work as a whole.. Anna Pham. Julian Carter. Julie Liu. Literal Meaning/How it relates to material in play/class. Actual Prompt. : List and discuss each place (I.e., Thebes, Delphi) and the significance of Sophocles and Oedipus of that time. Why these locations? Why these Gods? Why Thebes? What do these locations mean to Sophocles? . “I am no man”. Agenda. Problems (cont’d) …. Gender, Sexuality, Values, Ideology. Shape of Course. Where, When, What, How. Sophocles’ . Antigone. Background, Approaches, Issues. Discussion. Gender, Values, Power. Add a Slide Title - 1. Antigone. . By Sophocles.  . . Translated . by R. C. . Jebb. Dramatis Personae.  . ANTIGONE. and . ISMENE. : . Daughters . of . Oedipus. CREON. ,. King of . 92 JAMES H OLIVER The monument is on all three sides and honors Sarapion of Chollidae whose desceiidants constituted one of the great families of Roman Athens The majority of the fragments came from t Kousoulis AA, Economopoulos KP, Poulakou-Rebelakou E, Androutsos G, Tsiodras S. The Plague of Thebes, a Historical Epidemic in Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex. Emerg Infect Dis. 2012;18(1):153-157. https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1801.ad1801.