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Fill in the missing name in these lines from Elizabeth Barret Browning's Sonnets from the Portuguese, V:

"I lift my heavy heart up solemnly,
As once _______ her sepulchral urn,
And, looking in thine eyes, I overturn
The ashes at thy feet."
a. Cassandra
b. Electra
c. Iphigenia
d. Medea
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Sophocles

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born

January 01, 496

died

January 01, 406

gender

male

place of birth

Colonus (Athens), Greece

genre

Literature & Fiction, Historical Fiction

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Sophocles was an ancient Greek tragedy playwright. Not many things are known about his life. He was wealthy; well educated. He wrote about 123 plays but not many survived throughout history. One of his best known plays is 'Oedipus the King' (Oedipus Rex).

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books by Sophocles

avg rating: 3.70 | 19,361 ratings | 754 reviews | 118 distinct works | 33 fans

	Antigone by Sophocles, J.E. Thomas (Translator) avg rating 3.53 — 5,482 ratings — published 1924 91 editions	my rating:
	Oedipus Rex by Sophocles avg rating 3.62 — 5,072 ratings — published 429 98 editions	my rating:
	The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus & Antigone by Sophocles, Dudley Fitts (Translator), Robert Fitzgerald (Translator) avg rating 3.96 — 2,375 ratings — published -429 67 editions	my rating:
	Three Tragedies: Antigone, Oedipus the King & Electra by Sophocles, Edith Hall (Editor), H.D.F. Kitto (Translator) avg rating 3.94 — 574 ratings — published 1 4 editions	my rating:
	Electra by Sophocles, Marianne Macdonald (Translator), J. Michael Walton (Translator) avg rating 3.68 — 396 ratings — published 1973 18 editions	my rating:
	Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles, Eamon Grennan (Translator), Rachel Kitzinger (Translator) avg rating 3.60 — 311 ratings — published 1938 14 editions	my rating:
	Sophocles: The Complete Plays by Sophocles, Paul Roche (Translator) avg rating 4.28 — 118 ratings — published 2001 9 editions	my rating:
	Sophocles II: Ajax/Women of Trachis/Electra/Philoctetes (Complete Greek Tragedies 4) by Sophocles, David Grene (Editor), Richmond Alexander Lattimore (Editor), John Moore (Translator), Michael Jameson (Translator) avg rating 4.29 — 101 ratings — published 1942 10 editions	my rating:
	Oedipus Rex and Antigone by Sophocles avg rating 3.70 — 114 ratings — published 1960 7 editions	my rating:
	Ajax by Sophocles avg rating 3.55 — 87 ratings — published 1920 17 editions	my rating:

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