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
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Audiobook Recommendation---The Oedipus Plays: An Audible Original Drama (https://www.amazon.com/Oedipus-Plays-Audible-Original-Drama/dp/B01GEPQIQE/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&qid=1502033701&sr=8-9&keywords=sophocles+audible)
Show Notes: http://www.thehistoryofancientgreece.com/2017/08/051-sophocles.html
***Special Guest Episode on Classical Monsters and Popular Culture w/Liz Gloyn***
097 The Road to Peace
096 Athens on the Offensive
095 The Greek World Turned Upside Down
***Special Guest Episode on Being a Modern Homeric Bard w/Joe Goodkin***
***Special Guest Episode on Translating Thucydides’ Speeches w/Johanna Hanink***
094 New Leaders and New Strategies
093 Revolt in the Empire
092 The End of an Era (Part II)
091 Attrition and Plague
090 The Road to War
***Special Guest Episode on Ten Caesars w/Barry Strauss***
***Special Guest Episode at MFA Boston w/Phoebe Segal***
089 The Breakdown of Peace
088 Thucydides and Periclean Politics
087 Rhetoric and the Sophists
***Special Guest Episode on Drinking and 'Sportsing' w/Amy Pistone***
086 Early Astronomy
085 Mathematics and Early Pythagoreans
084 Pluralists and Other Physiologoi
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