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What is the first choral ode about in the Shakespeare play Antigone?
Antigone is written by Sophocles. It's about how great man is.Shakespeare didn't write Antigone. Sophocles did.
What are some types of Greek poetry?
Ancient Greek Poetry: Epic (Homer, Hesiodus) Drama: Tragedy (Sophocles, Euripides,Aeschylus) Comedy (Aristophanes) Lyric (Sappho, Pindarus, Archilochus)Greek Poetry in Byzantium: Hymns (Romanus Melodus) Medieval Epic Poems of Crete: "Erotocitus" (Vincenzo Cornaro) Modern Greek Poetry: some great poets: K. Palamas, G. Seferis(Noble Prize 1963), Od. Elytis (Noble Prize 1979)
What were Sophocles's contributions to theater?
Sophocles was one of the great playwrights of the Golden Age. Sophocles wrote about 125 tragedies in his lifetime. He is credited with increasing the number of actors with speaking parts from two to three. He is also credited with increasing the number of chorus members from twelve to fifteen and he developed the use of painted scenery.
What influences did Sophocles have on today?
A play is meant to entertain. A play that amuses the audience is considered a comedy, and a play that saddens is classified as a tragedy. Sophocles wrote tragedies about ordinary people and their interaction with fate. All of Sophocles' major characters posses a heroic flaw. A heroic flaw is a trait that brings both good and bad events upon the character (Magill 3). Sophocles' use of heroic flaws, the irony between a prophecy and a characters attempt to avoid it, his definition of what makes someone great, and his view of laws are the reasons why his plays are still read almost two thousand years after they were written.
What is the myth background of 'Antigone'?
The story of Oedipus and the fate of the shirtsleeve relatives of the gods is the myth background of "Antigone" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).Specifically, Theban Princess Antigone is the daughter of disgraced Theban King Oedipus. She therefore is great-great-great granddaughter of Cadmus, Thebes' founder and first king. As a result, she also is the great-great-great-great-great granddaughter of Poseidon the sea god. Consequently, she is the great-great-great-great-great-great-great granddaughter of Gaia, the mother goddess who through her incest with her son Uranus is the ancestor of gods and heroes.
