A Few Tragedy/Sophocles Links
General sites:
- Texts
of Sophocles and other authors on Perseus (scroll down to find Sophocles) excellent
resource, with the text in Greek and English, with morphological links for
each word, including an online lexicon, and with some notes from Jebb and
Smythe. To get the Greek on your screen, you have to do (at least)
two things near the top of the page: next to where it says
"Version" change from English to Greek, and then click on the
link above that says "configure display," and see if you can
find the kind of Greek display you have on your computer. You might
have to accept cookies to get it to work.
- Texts of
Sophocles' plays in English at MIT
- Dunkle
Intro to Tragedy (read for first Sophocles class)
- Sophocles
in Perseus Encyclopedia (read for first Sophocles class)
- Skenotheke:
Images of the Ancient Stage (Porter) (lots of links and info)
- Didaskalia: Ancient
Theater Today "Your electronic source for the latest
developments in Greek and Roman drama, dance, and music as they are
performed today." With an Intro to Ancient
Theater, Images of Recreating
The Theater of Dionysus in Athens , an Introduction
to Greek Stagecraft, their own Journal and links
to other sites.
- Glossary
of terms used in discussions of Greek Drama
- Reed
College Intro to Tragedy with timeline
- Cambridge page
on background to tragedy (with links to Perseus for all surviving
plays)
- Cambridge
page on The Influence of Greek Tragedy. "A discussion of philosophical
and theatrical responses to Greek tragedy"
- Selected
Web Resources on Sophocles on VRoma
- Tragedy in Martin,
Overview/GrkHistr-Read section10.2
- Pronomos Vase with
Depictions of Actors with Masks (Perseus)
- Bust of Sophocles (pics
and discussion)
Course notes and study guides for the seven plays:
Other sites:
Aristotle:
Not so tragic:
(back to Clas 29
section 2 home page)