person
Sophocles
also: Sophocles
The Athenian tragedian (c. 496-406 BC); Cicero alludes to him jokingly ('something in the Sophoclean style') when teasing Tiro about possible literary compositions.
Reading notes
- Ad Familiares 16.18 §3 composing some piece in the Sophoclean style
A teasing jab at Tiro's literary ambitions: Cicero asks whether his secretary, with leisure on his hands, is writing tragedy in the grand manner of the Athenian tragedian Sophocles.
- Ad Quintum Fratrem 2.15 §3 ``The Banqueters of Sophocles''
A little tragedy Quintus had written (titled after Sophocles' lost Syndeipnoi, on the heroes at Tenedos); Cicero, playing critic, says he gave it no approval at all.