Greek tragedy

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No man loves like him that's growing old.

Sophocles

Acrisius

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Sophocles. Acrisius. 5th century BC, fragment 64.

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Sophocles. Οἰδίπους ἐπὶ Κολωνῷ [Oedipus at Colonus]. 401 BC, Festival of Dionysus, Athens, Greece.

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Sophocles. "Oedipus at Colonus." The Three Theban Plays: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Odeipus at Colonus, translated by Robert Fagles. Penguin Classics, 2000.

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Aeschylus. Ἱκέτιδες, Hiketides [The Suppliants]. c. 455 BC.

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Aeschylus. Ἱκέτιδες, Hiketides [The Suppliants]. c. 455 BC.

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Euripides. Ἱππόλυτος [Hippolytus]. 428 BC, City Dionysia festival, Athens, Greece.

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Euripides. "Hippolytus." Euripides I: Alcestis, Medea, The Children of Heracles, Hippolytus, edited and translated by Richard Lattimore, et. al. University of Chicago Press, 2013.

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Sophocles. Αἴας [Ajax]. c. 441 BCE, Athens, Greece.

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Sophocles. "Ajax." Electra and Other Plays, translated by David Raeburn. Penguin Classics, 2008.

Sons are the anchors of a mother's life.

Sophocles

Phaedra

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Sophocles. Phaedra. c. 5th century BC, fragment 612.

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Sophocles. Ἀντιγόνη [Antigone]. c. 441 BC, Festival of Dionysus, Athens, Greece.

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Sophocles. "Antigone." The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone, translated by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald. Mariner Books, 2002.