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)
• John Porter course notes for CLASS226 Tragedy-University of Saskatchewan (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 that publishes articles on theater, and links to other sites.
• Reed College Intro to Tragedy with timeline; their drawing of a Greek theater
• 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 w/ Dr. J's pics of The Theater of Dionysus on the south slope of the Acropolis at Athens
• Pronomos Vase with Depictions of Actors with Masks (Perseus)
• More on masks: Pronomos vase again; closeup of three masks carried or hanging; reconstruction at Didaskalia
• The well-preserved theater at Epidauros view from cheap seats overhead pic from UTexas digital recreation by Didaskalia
• Bust of Sophocles (pics and discussion)
• Tragedy in Martin, Overview/GrkHistr-Read section10.2
• UNC’s Forest Theater ; another view

Course notes and study guides for the seven plays:

• Robin Mitchell-Boyask course on Greek Drama and Culture  (lots of info and links)
• Robin Mitchell-Boyask, Temple U. Study Guide For Sophocles' Ajax
• Robin Mitchell-Boyask Study Guide For Sophocles' Philoctetes
• Luschnig notes and Questions on the Philoctetes
• Robin Mitchell-Boyask, Temple U. Study Guide For Sophocles' Electra
• Luschnig notes and Questions on the Electra
• Robin Mitchell-Boyask Guide to Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannos
• Luschnig notes and Questions on the Oedipus Tyrannos
• Tragedy course with links at The College of New Rochelle (McManus) (see esp. links for Oedipus, Antigone, Women of Trachis, and on "Women in Tragedy and Athenian Society")
• McManus' Background and Images for the Women of Trachis; and Study Questions for the Women of Trachis ; see also her links on Trachiniaehere
• Robin Mitchell-Boyask Study Guide For Sophocles' Antigone
• McManus' Background on Oedipus and Antigone; and Study Questions for the Antigone ; see also her links on Antigonehere
• Luschnig notes and Questions on the Antigone
• Sophocles Online Presenting Study Guides for All the Surviving Plays (Michael. J. Cummings) (several links)
• Cummings' Background to Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus scroll down
• Buy the CD of "The Gospel at Colonus" at barnesandnonle.com; the site has 29-second samples of all the songs
• Lewis Stiles' STUDY QUESTIONS FOR OEDIPUS AT COLONUS (scroll up or down for more plays)
• Cummings' Background to Sophocles' Ajax
• Pic on vase on Ajax about to kill himself
• Luschnig notes on the Ajax
• Greek Myths - Oedipus Andrew Wilson's info and links on the myth, the play, and possible interpretations.  Also an Oedipus game and an Antigone game.
• Oedipus, University of Saskatchewan
• Seamus Heaney's Cure at Troy: Politics and Poetry by Marianne McDonald an online article about Heaney's version.  See also a review of a production

Other sites:

• Did women attend the theater (and some history of the question)? by Marilyn Katz of Wesleyan
• Fragments of Ichneutae or "Trackers" scroll down on the page
• Fragments of Sophocles.  Abstracts of papers at a conference at Nottingham
• Plot Outlines for the Surviving Plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes
• Francklin trans. of Phil.
• Sophocles' Trachiniae on Diotima
• Sophocles' Antigone on Diotima, "Translated by Wm. Blake Tyrrell and Larry J. Bennett (with copious notes and an introduction covering translation issues, historical context, details of the dramatic festivals, etc.)"
• Diotima: Women & Gender in the Ancient Worl
• Diotima's General Drama Bibliography
• Diotima's Sophocles Bibliography
• CLST 141: Ancient Theater course
• Pics of UNC's Forest Theater (small); see also more pics here

Aristotle:

• Outline of Aristotle's Theory of Tragedy in the POETICS (McManus)
• Text of Aristotle's Poetics in English at MIT
• Notes on Sophocles' Oedipus: What does Aristotle say? (M. Heath, for a graduate course at Leeds)

Not so tragic:

• A.E. Housman's Fragment of a Greek Tragedy (spoof)
• Oedipus with Vegetables
• Philoctetes II  by  Robert Lesser (a play about Chicago crooks)
• The Mighty Hercules
• Not Another Greek Tragedy (band)
• Antigone Rising (all female band)
• Philoctetes the puppet!     Dorothy confronts Philoctetes (pic)

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