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5 from Perseus Project Research Preprints

1. Anne Mahoney, Creating an Infrastructure for Scholarly Publication On Line section 4
   When the on-line edition of the Sophocles book refers to Aeschylus, there will be a live link at the point of the citation, which the reader can follow to find the passage in Aeschylus. (2.60)

2. Anne Mahoney, Creating an Infrastructure for Scholarly Publication On Line section 4
   Someone reading Aeschylus will see a link back to the book about Sophocles which refers to the passage. (2.53)

3. Anne Mahoney, Creating an Infrastructure for Scholarly Publication On Line section 4
   In a print library, books are implicitly connected: when a book about Sophocles refers to Aeschylus, the author indicates the play and line number, and the reader is free to pull out a text of the older playwright and read the passage. (2.46)

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1380 from Greek and Roman Materials

1. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD) alphabetic letter D
   ) In the time of Herodotus and Sophocles the oracles were interpreted by three (Sophocles says two) aged women, called (31.13)

2. A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith) alphabetic letter A
   in which he alluded to the decree of Sophocles against the philosophers, in B. C. 316. (17.27)

3. A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith) alphabetic letter T
   Nevertheless, when, according to the law of Sophocles (01. 118. 3), the philosophers were banished from Athens, Theophrastus also left the city, until Philo, a disciple of Aristotle, in the very next year. brought Sophocles to punishment, and procured the repeal of the law. (15.85)

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10 from Renaissance Materials

1. William Shakespeare, The Tragedie of Coriolanus (ed. Horace Howard Furness, Jr., A. B.; Litt. D.) act 1, scene 6, commline 31
   Sophocles in Ajace, [ll. 14-16, Theobald gives the Greek original, which is thus rendered in the Oxford translation: ‘O voice of Minerva, my best beloved of deities, how well known do I hear, and grasp with my mind, even though thou be unseen, thy voice like that of the brazen-throated Tuscan trump! (7.33)

2. William Shakespeare, The Tragedie of Coriolanus (ed. Horace Howard Furness, Jr., A. B.; Litt. D.) act 3, scene 1, commline 375
   The works of Sophocles are not included in Miss Henrietta Palmer's List of English Editions and translations of Greek and Latin Classics printed before 1641. (7.33)

3. William Shakespeare, The Tragedie of Coriolanus (ed. Horace Howard Furness, Jr., A. B.; Litt. D.)
   For Shakspere, like Sophocles, is a harmonist of discords: himself harmonious, whole, he sees the whole, and not the part, and sees that all is good. (7.33)

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1 from The Tragedie of Anthonie, and Cleopatra

1. Critical Commentary act 4, scene 12, commline 21
   Theobald: Ajax in Sophocles, when he is on the point of killing himself, addresses the sun in a manner not much unlike this. [lines 814-816. (1.16)

7 from The Tragedie of Coriolanus

1. William Shakespeare, Critical Commentary: The Tragedie of Coriolanus (ed. Horace Howard Furness, Jr., A. B.; Litt. D.) act 3, scene 1, commline 375
   The works of Sophocles are not included in Miss Henrietta Palmer's List of English Editions and translations of Greek and Latin Classics printed before 1641. (6.44)

2. William Shakespeare, Critical Commentary: The Tragedie of Coriolanus (ed. Horace Howard Furness, Jr., A. B.; Litt. D.) act 1, scene 6, commline 31
   Sophocles in Ajace, [ll. 14-16, Theobald gives the Greek original, which is thus rendered in the Oxford translation: ‘O voice of Minerva, my best beloved of deities, how well known do I hear, and grasp with my mind, even though thou be unseen, thy voice like that of the brazen-throated Tuscan trump! (6.44)

3. William Shakespeare, Appendix: The Tragedie of Coriolanus (ed. Horace Howard Furness, Jr., A. B.; Litt. D.) section CRITICISMS, subsection Whitelaw
   For Shakspere, like Sophocles, is a harmonist of discords: himself harmonious, whole, he sees the whole, and not the part, and sees that all is good. (4.97)

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19 from The Bolles Collection on the History of London

1. Sidney Lee, Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome alphabetic letter D, entry 8550
   philologist; brother of Sir Stuart Alexander Donaldson [q. v.]; sent to Trinity College, Cambridge, 1831; second in classical tripos, 1834; fellow and tutor of Trinity; published ‘New Cratylus,’ practically starting the science of comparative philology in England, 1839; D.D.; headmaster of King Edward's School, Bury St. Edmunds, 1841-55; published ‘Varronianus,’ advancing theory of the Gothic affinities of the Etruscans, 1844; resigned head-mastership, 1855; classical examiner to the university of London; completed K. O. Müller's ‘History of Greek Literature,’ 1858; the main author of the ‘Theatre of the Greeks’; edited Pindar's ‘Epinician Odes’ and the ‘Antigone’ of Sophocles; published ‘Jashar’ (1854), to prove that a book of Jashar constituted ‘the religious marrow of the scriptures. (7.93)

2. Sidney Lee, Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome alphabetic letter F, entry 11097
   miscellaneous writer; fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, 1746-58; M.A., 1746; D.D., 1770; professor of Greek, 1750-9; vicar of Ware, 1759-77; preacher at St. Paul's, Covent Garden; king's chaplain, 1767; chaplain to the Royal Academy through influence of Johnson and Reynolds, and (1774) professor of ancient history; satirised in the ‘Rosciad’; translated Sophocles, 1759, Lucian, 1780, and Cicero's ‘De Natura Deorum,’ 1741; produced three plays, including the ‘Earl of Warwick’ (acted at Drury Lane 1766); edited ‘The Centinel,’ 1757-8, and contributed to Smollett's ‘Critical Review. (7.53)

3. Sidney Lee, Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome alphabetic letter T, entry 30252
   editor of Shakespeare; became an attorney, but soon abandoned the law for literature; published an ode on the union, 1707, and translations of Plato, AEschylus, Sophocles, Aristophanes, and Homer, poems, essays, biographies, and dramatic works; accused of scandalous plagiarism in respect of his ‘Perfidious Brother,’ 1715; published ‘Shakespeare restored, or a Specimen of the many Errors as well committed as unamended by Mr. Pope in his late Edition of this Poet,’ 1726, exposing Pope's incapacity as a critic; made the hero of the ‘Dunciad,’ and ridiculed in the ‘Miscellanies,’ 1727-8, at the same time that his best corrections were incorporated in Pope's second edition of Shakespeare; defended himself in ‘The Author,’ 1729; produced the ‘Double Falsehood,’ a tragedy, 1727, as a work of Shakespeare's, though probably from his own pen; edited the posthumous works of Wycherley, and contributed notes to Cook's ‘Hesiod,’ 1728; failed in his candidature for the poet laureateship, 1730; contributed valuable emendations on AEschylus, Athenæus, and other Greek writers, to ‘Miscellaneous Observations on Authors, Ancient and Modern,’ by Zachary Pearce [q. v.], 1731; published an edition of Shakespeare, 1734, which raised him to the front rank of Shakespearean commentators; pursued by poverty; wrote various tragedies and operas, and was engaged on an edition of Beaumont and Fletcher at the time of his death. [lvi. (5.96)

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4 from American Memory: California

1. Granite crags; by C.F. Gordon Cumming page 4
   SOPHOCLES. (4.04)

2. Literary industries: a memoir. By Hubert Howe Bancroft page 189
   Of the hundred plays said to have been written by Sophocles, only seven are preserved. (1.63)

3. A Gil Blas in California. By Alexandre Dumas. Translated by Marguerite Eyer Wilbur page xxvii
   A period of tranquility then ensues, an age when Greece gave to the world Homer, Heriod, Orpheus, Æschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Plato--an age when the torch was lit. (1.43)

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11 from American Memory: Upper Midwest

1. Memoirs of Jeremiah Curtin page 59
   Later Brown wrote to me, saying: ‘When we received Professor Sophocles’ letter, I thought: “Curtin must be one of the strangest men in the world for Sophocles to want to make him a present of his Lexicon,[“] for he is so unspeakably proud of Greek that he thinks no man in America worthy of the book. (8.28)

2. Memoirs of Jeremiah Curtin page 58
   About halfway between the old elm and the college grounds there was a house where Sophocles frequently visited. (4.14)

3. Memoirs of Jeremiah Curtin page 922
   Sophocles, Prof. (3.73)

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2 from American Memory: Chesapeake Bay

1. Stephen Collins, The autobiography of Stephen Collins, M.D page 228
   Simonides shows the same custom prevailed among the ancient Greeks, by the epitaph which he placed on the tomb of Sophocles,—the father of Grecian tragedy: (2.81)

2. Stephen Collins, The autobiography of Stephen Collins, M.D page 228
   Wind, gentle evergreen, to form a shade
   Around the tomb where Sophocles is laid. (2.40)

1 from Tufts University History

1. Russell E. Miller, Light on the Hill, Volume I chapter 4, section 4
   Professor Schneider's classes in Greek for freshman and sophomores read from Thucydides, Plato, Lucian, Herodotus, and Sophocles and periodically wrote short prose compositions. (3.28)