Author: Sophocles

Cited by

• Ali Smith (1)
  • IN: the accidental (2005) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Many are the things that man / Seeing must undertand. / Not seeing, how shall he know / What lies in the hand / Of time to come?
    FROM: Ajax, (-442), Play, Greece
• Paul Durcan (1)
  • IN: Christmas Day (1996) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: For kindness it is, that ever calls forth kindness.
    FROM: Ajax, (-450), Play, Greece
• Irving Stone (1)
  • IN: The Greek Treasure (1958) Non-fiction, Biography, Archaeology, American
    EPIGRAPH: The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to life, Nothing once known that may not become unknown
    FROM: Ajax, (-450), Play, Greek
• Kavery Nambisan (1)
  • IN: the story that must not be told (2010) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Laws thereof are set before us In the heavens they move.
    FROM: Oedipus Rex, (-429), Play, Ancient Greece
• Patrick Carman (2)
  • IN: Eve of Destruction (2012) Horror, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: When a man has outlived his limit, plunged in age, and the good comrade comes who comes at last to all, not with a wedding song, no singers dancing, the doom of the death god comes like lightning. Always death at the last. Not to be born is best when all is reckoned in. But once a man has seen the light the next best thing by far is to go back, back where he came from quickly as he can. For once his youth slips by, light on the wing, light headed, what mortal blows can he escape? What griefs won’t stalk his days? Envy and enemies rage in battles, bloodshed, and last of all, despised old age overtakes him. Stripped of power, companions. Stripped of love. The worst this life of pain can offer. Old age, our mate at last.
    FROM: Oedipus Rex, (-429), NULL, Ancient Greece
  • IN: Dark Eden (2012) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: When a man has outlived his limit, plunged in age, and the good comrade comes who comes at last to all, not with a wedding song, no singers dancing, the doom of the death god comes like lightning. Always death at the last. Not to be born is best when all is reckoned in. But once a man has seen the light the next best thing by far is to go back, back where he came from quickly as he can. For once his youth slips by, light on the wing, light headed, what mortal blows can he escape? What griefs won't stalk his days? Envy and enemies rage in battles, bloodshed, and last of all, despised old age overtakes him. Stripped of power, companion. Stripped of love. The worst this life of pain can offer. Old age, our mate at last.
    FROM: NULL, (None), Book, Greece
• Sara Shepard (1)
  • IN: Pretty Little Liars (2007) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Look and you will find it -- what is unsought will go undetected.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Greece
• Ellie Marney (1)
  • IN: Every Breath (2014) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: A human being is only breath and shadow
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Greece
• Gabriel Garcia Márquez (1)
  • IN: Leaf Storm (1972) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: But Polyneices' corpse who died in pain they say he has proclaimed to the whole town that none may bury him and none bewail, but leave him unwept, untombed, a rich sweet sigh for the hungry birds' beholding. Such orders they say the worthy Creon gives to you and me - yes, yes, I say to me - and that he's coming to proclaim it clear to those who know it not. Further: he has the matter so at heart that anyone who dares attempt the act will die by public stoning in the town.
    FROM: Antigone, (-442), Play, Greece
• William Boyd (2)
  • IN: Waiting for Surprise (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Truly, to tell lies is not honourable; but when the truth entails trememdous ruin, to speak dishonourably is pardonable.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Greece
  • IN: Waiting for Sunrise (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Truly, to tell lies is not honourable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonourably is pardonable.
    FROM: Creusa, (None), Play, Greece
• J. T. Ellison (1)
  • IN: When Shadows Fall (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: A human being is only breath and shadow.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Greece
• Emily Holleman (1)
  • IN: The Drowning King (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: dear friend, only the gods can never age, the gods can never die. All else in the world almighty Time obliterates, crushes all to nothing. The earth's strength wastes away, the strength of a man's body wastes and dies -- faith dies, and bad faith comes to life, and the same wind of friendship cannot blow forever, holding steady and strong between two friends, much less between two cities. For some of us soon, for others later, joy turns to hate and back to love again.
    FROM: Oedipus at Colonus, (-401), Book, Greece
• Jonathan Maberry (1)
  • IN: Dead of the Night (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: All concerns of men go wrong when they wish to cure with evil.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Greece
• Max Collins (1)
  • IN: Majic Man (1999) FictioFiction, Mystery, Suspense, American
    EPIGRAPH: But shrieks that fly Piercing and wild, and loud, shall mourn the tale….
    FROM: Sophocles, translated by William Mackworth Praed, (None), Book, Greece
• Heather Young (1)
  • IN: The Lost Girls (2016) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Sister -- if all this is true, what could I do, or undo?
    FROM: Antigone, (-441), Play, Greece
• Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya (1)
  • IN: The Watch (2012) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: I know that I must die, E'en hadst thou not proclaimed it; and if death Is thereby hastened, I shall count it gain. For death is gain to him whose life, like mine, Is full of misery. Thus my lot appears Not sad, but blissful; for had I endured To leave my mother's son unburied there, I should have grieved with reason, but not now.
    FROM: Antigone, (-441), Play, Greece
• Alice Lichtenstein (2)
  • IN: Lost (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: “… One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.”
    FROM: Oedipus at Colonus, (-401), Play, Greece
• Robert Barclay (1)
  • IN: The Widow's Walk (2014) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The long, unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once unknown that may not become known. Nothing is impossible.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Greece
• Jude Cook (1)
  • IN: Byron Easy (2013) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: ...I am not asleep. I weep; and walk through endless ways of thought.
    FROM: Oedipus the King, (-429), Play, Greece
• Tiffany Baker (1)
  • IN: Mercy Snow (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.
    FROM: Antigone, (-441), NULL, Greece
• Orhan Pamuk (1)
  • IN: The Red-Haired Woman (2016) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Oedipus: Where would a trace of this old crime be found?
    FROM: Oedipus the King, (-429), Play, Greece
• Arturo Pérez-Reverte (1)
  • IN: The Siege (2010) Historical Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: All is possible, when ’tis a god contrives.
    FROM: Ajax, (-443), Play, Greece
• Edgar Allan Poe (1)
  • IN: The Colloquy of Monos and Una (1841) Fiction, Short Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: These things are in the future.
    FROM: Antig, (None), NULL, Greece
• Paul McAuley (1)
  • IN: Austral (2017) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: How many miseries our father caused! And is there one of them that does not fall On us while yet we live?
    FROM: Antigone, (-441), Play, Greece
• Arthur Desmond (1)
  • IN: Might Is Right, or The Survival of the Fittest (1890) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: The law immutable, indestructible, eternal, not like those of today and yesterday, but made ere time began.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Greece