<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></title><description><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link><image><url>http://direct.ecency.com/logo512.png</url><title>RSS Feed</title><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link></image><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2026 08:29:04 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="http://direct.ecency.com/created/sophocles/rss.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Scaliger’s Ajax Lorarius]]></title><description><![CDATA[Joseph Juste Scaliger – Part 8 ~Part 1~ Juste Scaliger During his two years in Geneva (1572-74), Joseph Juste Scaliger undertook several philological projects. One of these, his study of the Astronomica]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/scaliger/@harlotscurse/scaligers-ajax-lorarius</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/scaliger/@harlotscurse/scaligers-ajax-lorarius</guid><category><![CDATA[scaliger]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[harlotscurse]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2022 08:51:06 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/2bP4pJr4wVimqCWjYimXJe2cnCgnFfcKiFyvyioXxge?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oedipus Rex - Great Greek Plays]]></title><description><![CDATA[Oedipus Rex by Sophocles OEDIPUS My children, latest born to Cadmus old, Why sit ye here as suppliants, in your hands Branches of olive filleted with wool? What means this reek of incense everywhere, And]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/stories/@darkflame/oedipus-rex-great-greek-plays</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/stories/@darkflame/oedipus-rex-great-greek-plays</guid><category><![CDATA[stories]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[darkflame]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2020 23:20:15 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/8SzwQc8j2KJbFHDbZTe1BxNJ6aRUvF52hbS1j1NoZUNyfwa4w5ZEkqPfGZBCtGvLbNEEPTa4M7FzSCZ4et3pZGbigDqtgnFdaxMANRo9KS8UCdk3UHU?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Playwrights / Dramatists - 01 - Sophocles (496-406 B. C.)]]></title><description><![CDATA[The glory of ancient Greece survives in its drama as well as in its epics, folktales, fables, and lyric poetry. The fifth century B. C. was the golden age of Greek drama when the most famous Greek dramatists]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/sophocles/@dahamsa/playwrights-dramatists-01-sophocles-496-406-b-c</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/sophocles/@dahamsa/playwrights-dramatists-01-sophocles-496-406-b-c</guid><category><![CDATA[sophocles]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[dahamsa]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 06 Apr 2019 14:48:36 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/8SzwQc8j2KJZWBXFXnbnQ1FtoZhRqrTWozhqoqWHpGmpmnKj9kS6TWC9d6xQHZjVzqFWQU9T8HUCBG1wErZRaed5kcx1L4MaErNENNDouFmtfuKf3aN?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Literature 0135]]></title><description><![CDATA[A mind at peace does not engender #wars #Sophocles]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/mind/@helices/literature-0135</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/mind/@helices/literature-0135</guid><category><![CDATA[mind]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[helices]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2019 18:37:03 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[RT @thought_c9: "One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love." 

― Sophocles]]></title><description><![CDATA[Thu May 10 01:59:14 +0000 2018 @sdavignon tweeted.RT @thought_c9: "One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love." ― Sophocles you want to cross post your tweets from]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/tweet/@sdavignon/20180510t020018079z</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/tweet/@sdavignon/20180510t020018079z</guid><category><![CDATA[tweet]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[sdavignon]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2018 02:00:45 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/2923mN3pnd7PruA5g4eQ6kcZWSsikiV2WnK1H7J3RYH9JXFFVsUPiqRrNRkoLX6adzcHfypJ38yfXfSjXxsAYfUy9hGm897ib89H2tH1MC8SjQ?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Greek Mythology--Sophocles' Ajax: Justice in Revenge]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sophocles was one of the three great Athenian tragic playwrights of the fifth-century BC, along with Aeschylus (author of Prometheus Bound) and Euripides. Ajax is one of Sophocles’ seven surviving plays,]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/literature/@rennoelle/greek-mythology-sophocles-ajax-justice-in-revenge</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/literature/@rennoelle/greek-mythology-sophocles-ajax-justice-in-revenge</guid><category><![CDATA[literature]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[rennoelle]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:29:09 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/2gsjgna1uruvUuS7ndh9YqVwYGPLVszbFLwwpAYXYmgcR4xSPvzKPusMDhZnWq4XYjSNV5NGxDZHv3c3MZxErzfS4SaXzX7brWmWaPo6YMZKTyC8VU?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oedipus Rex by Sophocles]]></title><description><![CDATA[Synopsis: The play begins In Medias Res, where a major plague has befallen Thebes, destroying all the crops and leaving the women infertile. Oedipus, the Protagonist and King of Thebes, sends his]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/reading/@tylerdurden000/oedipus-rex-by-sophocles</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/reading/@tylerdurden000/oedipus-rex-by-sophocles</guid><category><![CDATA[reading]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[tylerdurden000]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 19 Feb 2018 17:26:18 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/2gsjgna1uruvUuS7ndh9YqVwYGPLVszbFLwwpAYXZAgWaLbBJuPvrwNV6sAzMoA44Yuz2zrFEqU2dHCG2Sajr1iXoVDTmUdrXJpnP7VRx6psaz3mMp?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Antigone by Sophocles]]></title><description><![CDATA[Plot: Antigone is the final book in Sophocles' Theban Plays(Antigone - Oedipus the King - Oedipus at Colonus) Oedipus has just passed away in Colonus, after a series of tragic and unfortunate circumstances.]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/reading/@tylerdurden000/antigone-by-sophocles</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/reading/@tylerdurden000/antigone-by-sophocles</guid><category><![CDATA[reading]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[tylerdurden000]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 19 Feb 2018 16:29:45 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/2gsjgna1uruvUuS7ndh9YqVwYGPLVszbFLwwpAYXZ23XM4En5gqk9wB2jVSGoBJqC7fzHEuwJ6NzgMMfBLn4Wh6m1kaCnt3kYY9g6LkFDvgzaLwYTg?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[#7 - Is setting goals ultimately meaningless? - Problem of the Paradox of the End - Un-reasoned optimism and pessimism]]></title><description><![CDATA[In part #7 I will look at the role optimism and pessimism as states of mind have to play in how we view the world. In later blogs I will take you through to what I think is a resolution of the paradox.]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/byron/@stevedeery/is-setting-goals-ultimately-meaningless-problem-of-the-paradox-of-the-end-7-un-reasoned-optimism-and-pessimism</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/byron/@stevedeery/is-setting-goals-ultimately-meaningless-problem-of-the-paradox-of-the-end-7-un-reasoned-optimism-and-pessimism</guid><category><![CDATA[byron]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[stevedeery]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 21 Jan 2018 10:52:33 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/99pyU5Ga1kws91ecJjkANAzfstp5ietJ4ACvk9NVSTXSWUqBEyonqFPSddTAeyMjZgipqi9rRvjdBaTxmn6tM7WhrMxp11AkBye5i6NLWhMHBVgNcPVCM9v2M4n1vK75mp?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Analysis of the good life in Apology, Crito and Phaedo and Antigone]]></title><description><![CDATA[Various authors have over time explored the meaning of life in their works as well as the issues of morality, virtuosity, death, immortality and a good life. This is especially so for Greek writers and]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/philosophy/@dkabii/analysis-of-the-good-life-in-apology-crito-and-phaedo-and-antigone</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/philosophy/@dkabii/analysis-of-the-good-life-in-apology-crito-and-phaedo-and-antigone</guid><category><![CDATA[philosophy]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[dkabii]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 14 Nov 2017 22:51:03 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[book review: Oedipus Rex (Sophocles)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Warning spoilers can and will be found throughout this text :) The book which I will review today is in fact a play. One of the great classical plays: Oedipus Rex by Sophocles. Even among his contemporaries]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/literature/@walkerlv/book-review-oedipus-rex-sophocles</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/literature/@walkerlv/book-review-oedipus-rex-sophocles</guid><category><![CDATA[literature]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[walkerlv]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2017 19:22:36 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>