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Sophocles

 

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Sophocles : unknown

'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. During the last thirteen months I have read Aeschylus twice; Sophocles twice; Euripides once; Pindar twice; Callimachus; Apollonius Rhodius; Quintus Calaber; Theocritus twice; Herodotus; Thucydides; almost all Xenophon?s works; almost all Plato; Aristotle s Politics, and a good deal of his Organon, besides dipping elsewhere in him; the whole of Plutarch s Lives; about half of Lucian; two or three books of Athenaeus; Plautus twice; Terence twice; Lucretius twice; Catullus; Tibullus; Propertius; Lucan; Statius; Silius Italicus; Livy; Velleius Paterculus; Sallust; Caesar; and, lastly, Cicero. I have, indeed, still a little of Cicero left; but I shall finish him in a few days. I am now deep in Aristophanes and Lucian.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay      Print: Book

  

Sophocles : unknown

'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I have read Aeschylus twice; Sophocles twice; Euripides once; Pindar twice; Callimachus; Apollonius Rhodius; Quintus Calaber; Theocritus twice; Herodotus; Thucydides; almost all Xenophon?s works; almost all Plato; Aristotle?s Politics, and a good deal of his Organon, besides dipping elsewhere in him; the whole of Plutarch?s Lives; about half of Lucian; two or three books of Athenaeus; Plautus twice; Terence twice; Lucretius twice; Catullus; Tibullus; Propertius; Lucan; Statius; Silius Italicus; Livy; Velleius Paterculus; Sallust; Caesar; and, lastly, Cicero. I have, indeed, still a little of Cicero left; but I shall finish him in a few days. I am now deep in Aristophanes and Lucian.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay      Print: Book

  

Sophocles : Philoctetes

Before breakfast from 7 3/4 to 9 1/4, from 10 3/4 to 2 1/2 (including an interruption of 20 minutes)read from V.1304 to 1527, end of Philoctetes of Sophlocles, & afterwards from p.288 to 296, end of vol.2 Adams translation of the 7 remaining plays of Sophlocles...I feel myself improved & only hope to be going on prosperously [plans further improvement]

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister      

  

Sophocles : Antigone

'Began the Antigone, read Von Bohlen on Genesis, and Swedenborg'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: Book

  

Sophocles (?) : Oedipus Coloneus [sic]

'Read part of Oedipus Coloneus [title underlined].'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Book

  

Sophocles : [unknown]

[italics]'Euripides qto edition - Aeschylus - Sophocles'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

  

Sophocles : Oedipus Rex

'[Shelley] begins reading aloud Cynthia's revels - writes - and read the Oedipus of Sophocles'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

  

Sophocles : [Plays]

'Finish the 11th book of Tacitus - Read some of Beaumont & X Fletchers plays - work - S. write - reads some of the plays of Sophocles - & Antony & Cleopatra of Shakespeare and Othello aloud'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

  

Sophocles : Philoctetes

'S. reads the Philoctetes of Sophocles - Read 2nd and 3rd act of Phormio & Mile et une nuits'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

  

Sophocles : Electra

'S. reads Electra and Ajax. Read the 8th Canto of Ariosto and the 4th Act of Phormio - Finish the Mille et une nuits. Read the Zaire and the Alzire of Voltaire'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

  

Sophocles : Ajax

'S. reads Electra and Ajax. Read the 8th Canto of Ariosto and the 4th Act of Phormio - Finish the Mille et une nuits. Read the Zaire and the Alzire of Voltaire'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

  

Sophocles : Ajax

'Read 9th Canto of Ariosto - Finish Phormio - S reads Ajax'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

  

Sophocles : Oedipus Tyrannos

'This is the Journal book of misfortunes - Read Livy - A great many of the plays of Alfieri - S writes - he reads Oedipus Tyrannos to me'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

  

Sophocles : [unknown]

'Read Livy - Work - S. reads the Bible - Sophocles - & the Gospel of St Matthew to me'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

  

Sophocles : Hercules

'S. reads the Bible & Sophocles - he reads the Hercules of Sophocles aloud to me'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

  

Sophocles : Oedipus Tyrannus

'Read Oedipus Tyrannus'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

  

Sophocles : Oedipus Tyrannus

'Finish Oedipus Tyrannus'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

  

Sophocles : Antigone

'finish the Antigone'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

  

Sophocles : Philoctetes

'Read Philoctetes'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

  

Sophocles : Antigone

'Percy is reading the [underline] Antigone [end underlining]' [letter to Maria Gisborne]

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Shelley      Print: Book

  

Sophocles : 'recognised fragments of Sophocles'

Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, 16 March 1844: 'I return Mr Burges's criticism [...] which interested me much in the reading. Do let him understand how obliged to him I am for permitting me to look, for a moment, according to his view of the question [...] I am delighted to be able to call by the name of Aeschylus, under the authority of Mr Burges, those noble electrical lines [...[ which had struck me twenty times as Aeschylean, when I read them among the recognized fragments of Sophocles.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

 

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