051 - Sophocles

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In this episode, we discuss the life, innovations, and works of the second great Athenian playwright, Sophocles; and we discuss the historicity and some of the major themes of his surviving plays—Antigone, Ajax, Oedipus Rex, The Women of Trachis, Philoctetes, Electra, and Oedipus at Colonus

Primary Sources:
Text/Sophocles' Antigone
Text/Sophocles' Ajax
Text/Sophocles' Oedipus the King
Text/Sophocles' The Trackers (fragmentary satyr play)
Text/Sophocles' The Women of Trachis

Text/Sophocles' Philoctetes
Text/Sophocles' Electra
Text/Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus

Supplementary Resources (Videos, Photos, Other Podcasts)

Photo/Bust of Sophocles

Chart/House of Cadmus (Theban Royal Tree)

Video/Antigone (Monarchs Factory)

Photo/Vase Painting of Antigone and Creon

Video/Armchair Classics: Ajax (Overly Sarcastic Productions)

Photo/Vase Painting of Suicide of Ajax

Video/Fate, Family, and Oedipus Rex (Crash Course)

Video/Oedipus Rex (Monarchs Factory)

Video/Classics Summarized: Oedipus Rex (Overly Sarcastic Productions)

Video/Fate in Sophocles' Theban Tragedies (Millenial Classicist)



Video/Miasma in Sophocles' Oedipus the King (Millennial Classicist)



Video/Irony in Sophocles' Oedipus the King (Millennial Classicist)



Video/Hamartia in Sophocles' Oedipus the King (Millennial Classicist)



Video/Recognition in Sophocles' Oedipus the King (Millennial Classicist)

Video/Oedipus the King (Literature and History)

Photo/Vase Painting of Oedipus and the Sphinx

Photo/Fragmentary Papyrus of Sophocles' The Trackers

Photo/Vase Painting of Philoctetes

Recommended Podcast Episodes:

***Literature and History Ep 30 Sophocles' Oedipus the King

***Literature and History Ep 31 Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus

***Literature and History Ep 32 Sophocles' Antigone
***Myths and Legends Ep 65 Oedipus: Motherboy
***Myths and Legends Ep 147A Oedipus: Team Spear It
***MythTake Ep 17 Heroes at Home: Deianara