Essays on Sophocles

Sophocle’s Antigone is a play of expansive and lasting well known appeal. However, it is ironical that most of the play’s admirers have hardly arrived at a concurrence regarding its interpretation. This paper seeks to discuss one character in the play, Creon, who becomes the new king of Thebes following...

scholars from antiquity acknowledging Sophocles employs a number of both small and significant dramatic innovations. One of his later innovations is the use of various pictorial props or other "scene paintings" to define the environment or location. (Segal 46). Sophocles might have increased the choir line's size from 12 to...

Sophocles' Oedipus Rex is a tragedy based on Athenian thought, and it is one of three Theban plays that have survived and depict Oedipus' fate. Oedipus is the King of Thebes, unaware that his throne is the fulfillment of a prophecy that occurred without his knowledge. He married Jocasta, the...