Szophoklész idézet

Szophoklész, Sophokles görög drámaíró és tragédiaköltő.

Korában újszerűnek számított verselési formája, főként azzal ragadta meg nézői figyelmét, hogy bátran és lendületesen ábrázolta kora aktuális politikai problémáit, és hősében Athénnak, a tengeri szövetség fejének kulturális küldetését dicsőítette. Huszonnyolc évesen már részt vett drámai versenyen, ahol Triptolemosz című darabjával első díjat nyert. Huszonnégy győzelmet aratott a versenyeken.

A színpadi előadásokban is újítónak számított. Arisztotelész írta róla, hogy: „Három színészt és díszleteket Szophoklész alkalmazott először”. Életrajzából pedig megtudhatjuk, hogy ő növelte a kórus tagjainak számát 12-ről 15-re.

A hellenisztikus kor híres alexandriai nagy könyvtára 130 Szophoklésznek tulajdonított művet őrzött. Mára hét drámája és egy szatírjátéka maradt fenn. Wikipedia  

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Szophoklész idézetek

Szophoklész: Idézetek angolul

“Death is not the worst evil, but rather when we wish to die and cannot.”

Sophocles Electra

Electra, 1007.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Numberless are the world's wonders, but none
More wonderful than man.”

Variant translation: There are many wonderful things, and nothing is more wonderful than man.
Forrás: Antigone, Line 333 (Ode I)

“One word
Frees us of all the weight and pain of life:
That word is love.”

Sophocles Oedipus at Colonus

Forrás: Oedipus at Colonus, Line 1616–18

“The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.”

Forrás: Oedipus Rex, Line 1184, Second Messenger; one commonly quoted translation is, "The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities".

“Heaven ne'er helps the men who will not act.”

Fragment 288. (Plumptre's translation, as cited in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 1906)
Változat: Heaven never helps the man who will not act.

“Let every man in mankind's frailty
Consider his last day; and let none
Presume on his good fortune until he find
Life, at his death, a memory without pain.”

Változat: Look upon him, O my Thebans, on your king, the child of fame!
This mighty man, this Œdipus the lore far-famed could guess,
And envy from each Theban won, so great his lordliness—
Lo to what a surge of sorrow and confusion hath he come!
Let us call no mortal happy till our eyes have seen the doom
And the death-day come upon him—till, unharassed by mischance,
He pass the bound of mortal life, the goal of ordinance.
[ Tr. E. D. A. Morshead http://books.google.com/books?id=i7wXAAAAYAAJ (1885)]
Változat: People of Thebes, my countrymen, look on Oedipus.
He solved the famous riddle, with his brilliance,
he rose to power, a man beyond all power.
Who could behold his greatness without envy?
Now what a black sea of terror has overwhelmed him.
Now as we keep our watch and wait the final day,
count no man happy till he dies, free of pain at last.
[quoted by Thomas Cahill in Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea]
Forrás: Oedipus Rex, Line 1529, Choragos.

“A wise player ought to accept his throws and score them, not bewail his luck.”

Fragment 947.
Phædra
Forrás: Pearson, A.C. (1917). The Fragments of Sophocles (with additional notes from the papers of Sir R.C. Jebb and W.G. Headlam). Vol. 3. 3 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1917. Retrieved on 2017-01-06 from https://archive.org/details/fragmentseditedw03sophuoft.

“A lie never lives to be old.”

Acrisius, fragment 59.

“Wisdom outweighs any wealth.”

Forrás: Antigone, Line 1050

“Nobly to live, or else nobly to die,
Befits proud birth.”

Sophocles Ajax

ἀλλ᾽ ἢ καλῶς ζῆν ἢ καλῶς τεθνηκέναι
τὸν εὐγενῆ χρή
Forrás: Ajax, Lines 479-480

“No oath can be too binding for a lover.”

Fragment 848.
Phædra

“All men are liable to err.
But when an error is made, that man is no longer
unwise or unblessed who heals the evil
into which he has fallen and does not remain stubborn.”

τοῖς πᾶσι κοινόν ἐστι τοὐξαμαρτάνειν:
ἐπεὶ δ᾽ ἁμάρτῃ, κεῖνος οὐκέτ᾽ ἔστ᾽ ἀνὴρ
ἄβουλος οὐδ᾽ ἄνολβος, ὅστις ἐς κακὸν
πεσὼν ἀκῆται μηδ᾽ ἀκίνητος πέλῃ.
Forrás: Antigone, Lines 1024-1027; cf. Book of Proverbs 28:13

“For kindness begets kindness evermore,
But he from whose mind fades the memory
Of benefits, noble is he no more.”

Sophocles Ajax

χάρις χάριν γάρ ἐστιν ἡ τίκτουσ᾽ ἀεί
ὅτου δ᾽ ἀπορρεῖ μνῆστις εὖ πεπονθότος,
οὐκ ἂν γένοιτ᾽ ἔθ᾽ οὗτος εὐγενὴς ἀνήρ.
Forrás: Ajax, Lines 522-524

“If I am Sophocles, I am not mad; and if I am mad, I am not Sophocles.”

Vit. Anon, page 64 (Plumptre's Trans.).
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“I am the child of Fortune, the giver of good, and I shall not be shamed. She is my mother; my sisters are the Seasons; my rising and my falling match with theirs. Born thus, I ask to be no other man than that I am.”

Oedipus (Line 1079?).
Oedipus Rex
Változat: I am Fortune's child,
Not man's; her mother face hath ever smiled
Above me, and my brethren of the sky,
The changing Moons, have changed me low and high.
There is my lineage true, which none shall wrest
From me; who then am I to fear this quest?