Sophocles born
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Antigone (Sophocles play)
Tragedy by Sophocles
This article is about the play by Sophocles. For the main character in the play, see Antigone.
Antigone (ann-TIG-ə-nee; Ancient Greek: Ἀντιγόνη) is an Atheniantragedy written by Sophocles in (or before) 441 BC and first performed at the Festival of Dionysus of the same year. It is thought to be the second-oldest surviving play of Sophocles, preceded by Ajax, which was written around the same period. The play is one of a triad of tragedies known as the three Theban plays, following Oedipus Rex and Oedipus at Colonus. Even though the events in Antigone occur last in the order of events depicted in the plays, Sophocles wrote Antigone first.[1] The story expands on the Theban legend that predates it, and it picks up where Aeschylus' Seven Against Thebes ends. The play is named after the main protagonist Antigone.
After Oedipus' self-exile, his sons Eteocles and Polynices engaged in a civil war for the Theban throne, which resulted in both brothers dying while fighting each other. Oedipus' brother-in-law an
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Sophocles can highlight his festival claims
News Round-Up: Captain Cee Bee is a general 10 to 1 third favourite for Cheltenham's Anglo Irish Bank Novices' Hurdle but his festival warm-up at Punchestown tomorrow could see the JP McManus-owned horse edged out by Sophocles.
Ruby Walsh teams up for the first time with Sophocles whose own Supreme odds of 20 to 1 could shorten significantly if he gets the better of Captain Cee Bee and Co in the Grade Two Byrne Group Novice Hurdle.
However, it has been Captain Cee Bee who has been the centre of Cheltenham ante-post interest in recent weeks although his trainer, Eddie Harty, expects the horse to improve considerably from this weekend's run.
"He is getting better and better and has learned from his two races over hurdles. He is fit and well but hopefully he'll learn a lot from Sunday. This will be his final run before Cheltenham," Harty said yesterday.
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Sophocles is also having just his third start over flights but already has Cheltenham Festival form having finished runner-up to Cork All Star in last year's Champion Bum
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Theresa Ryder
At 2 a.m. on the morning of my daughter’s birthday I kept my pledge to finish my Classics master’s dissertation by the time she turned seventeen. For a while she would get her wish for a more conventional mother. I saved the final version for printing and as I closed the laptop lid I realised that in my haste I had made a footnote error. I was too tired to care. Approaching my 50th year, I was done with academia. I turned to view my shelf of Classics books that I could now read for pleasure. They were mostly second-hand but all equally creased from much handling. I selected a small battered book with a dull reddish-brown cover and flicked its aging pages. My university education had come late in life but this book reminded me that the seed had been sown for Classics many years before.
A professional mitcher, I had left school aged fifteen with no qualifications. Fortunately my Irish parents had chosen London as their migration landing point and low-level jobs were plentiful there at that time. I built an eclectic CV of short-term roles
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