Philoctetes

choices possible. He also was the first to suggest a painted scenery and not only just a painted background but different ones depending on the scene. Sophocles wrote around 120 plays in total but not all of them survived. Antigone (442 BCE) and Philoctetes (409 BCE) are two examples out of the seven full plays Sophocles wrote that…

Trojan War The Trojan War was an extraordinary military experience of old times, embraced by the rulers of Greece against the city of Troy. It went on for a long time and cost numerous lives, additionally delivered numerous legends. The last clashes of the war were depicted by the writer Homer in his epic sonnet "The Iliad". It was called like that, in light of the fact that the old name of Troy was Ilion. In the myths encompassing the Trojan War, actuality is in fact blended with fiction, as…

lanx. Even the least-warlike, archer god is tied to war, and he is not unpopular for his choice of weaponry, as actual soldiers were. Heracles, the most famous Greek hero, was a legendary archer, and many of his stories and depictions reflect that fact. Usually, he is considered the personification of strength. Hercules is seen in Geometric art, Orientalizing art, and onwards. The first literary mention of Heracles is in Homer’s Iliad, where he is a renowned archer. In the early sixth century…

Sigmund Freud and Gotthold Ephraim Lessing both developed their own ideas of emotion within their writings over art and the subject of the pregnant moment. For each philosopher, emotion was more than an abstract experience that people go through, but rather a phenomenon to be understood. Freud writes on this in his collection Writings on Art and Literature, where he analyzes Michelangelo’s Moses. Lessing’s writes on emotion in his writing Laocoon focuses on the statue of Laocoon. When defining…

To fully understand Sophocles’ play, the context must be explained. Oedipus the King takes place in mythological ancient Greece. In the city of Thebes, the events of this play happen all in a single day. In front of the Palace of Thebes, the people of this day are experiencing a famine in the land. An oracle tells that this famine is present because the murderer of the old king, Laius, has not been found and subsequently punished. In this age, it is important to note that the people of ancient…

Many best-selling books and Oscar winning movies are dramas. Sophocles, known as one of the greatest tragedians of all time, paved the way for all the future dramatic writers. Being as talented as he was, Sophocles had a very successful and prosperous career. He competed in the prestigious Dionysian Dramatic Festival 30 times, and died with 24 victorious first places under his belt. As a result of, growing up wealthy and being taught by the best professors in Athens, Sophocles’ prolific writings…

Mythology often plays a huge roll in everyday society, though one would rarely know how often myths play a part in that everyday life. One of the best known hero myths is that of Hercules. In the United states, Hercules has been made in to several movies, and even a television series. One of the best adaptations of this hero myth is the one done by Disney. To the untrained eye, few people would know that Disney uses the hero cycle is almost all of its children’s animated movies. That being…