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(Cato quotes a man who asked Sophocles whether, being old, he still indulged in "the delights of love."
Unanimous praise for this selection of Heaney's poems, which "eloquently confirms his status as the most skilful and profound poet writing in English today" (Edward Mendelson, the New York Times Book Review ). The book includes excerpts from his translation of Sophocles and his Nobel lecture, but more important, it features a wide selection of his poems, charting his progress from unknown to Nobel laureate.
The premiers of several major pieces by Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes were performed here, and the Athens assembly also met here late in its history.
Theater -- Electra , by Sophocles (Ethel Barrymore Theater, New York City).
I've never met a psychiatrist clumsy enough to use the words "Oedipal conflict" with a patient, let alone to explain it by invoking Sophocles, but this dumb bit is worth it to watch De Niro blanch, shake his head in disgust at the thought of Oedipus and his mom, and exclaim, "Fuckin' Greece."