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Before tackling such a question, we should consider the context in which Sophocles was writing, and in which his play is set. Typically in fifth-century Athens, a mention of Thebes would be met with hostilit...

Sophism was the philosophical and cultural movement that developed in Classical Greece between the 5th and 4th centuries BC. The major exponents of this philosophical movement were Protagoras and Gorgias. Th...

An articular infinitive , that is, an infinitive with an article, is a verbal noun . An article gives the doing word the same qualities of a noun, so an action can, for instance, be the subject or an object ...

In this play, the three main characters represent three different virtues that a human being should have. First, Alcestis is the lovely wife, who accepts to die on behalf of and for her husband: with her cho...

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