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‘His* successor was Sophocles,** who abandoned for the most part the practice of writing in trilogies, reduced the importance of the chorus, and introduced a third actor.*** His work too was based on myth, but whereas Aeschylus tried to make more intelligible the workings of the divine purpose in its effects on man’s life, Sophocles was readier to accept the gods as given and to reveal the values of life as it can be lived within the traditional framework of moral standards. Sophocles’ skill in control of dramatic movement and his mastery of speech were devoted to the presentation of the decisive, usually tragic, hours in the lives of men and women at once “heroic” and human, such as Oedipus.

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*[Aeschylus – see last previous entry]

**[circa497/6-406/5bce]

***{cf the increase of voices in Western European music.

(ref [[Redbook8:214-227][19910205:1412c]{The History of Western Music}[5th February 1991](ff),] 215 &

[[Redbook8:219][19910205:1412g]{The History of Western Music [continued (5)]}[5th February 1991],] 219)}

****[ibid [Encyclopaedia Britannica 20:] 401-402]

[& See [Redbook8:252][19910214:1610]{Classical Greek Dramatists [continued] [– Sophocles]}[14th February 1991]]

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