Sophocles' Electra is a play entirely without comfort.

索福克勒斯的伊莱克特拉是一部完全没有安慰的戏剧。

But it destroyed many of the works of Aristotle, Aeschylus, Euripides, Sophocles and countless other ancient astronomers, mathematicians, poets, playwrights and philosophers.

但它烧毁了很多亚里士多德、埃斯库罗斯、欧力比德斯、索福克勒斯（希望人名木有查错）以及其他无数古代天文学家、数学家、诗人、剧作家和哲学家的著作。

(" Well, in his tragedies, yes, " his peer Sophocles is said to have quipped, " but in bed at any rate he was a philogynes." )

“在他的悲剧中，是的，”据说他的同行索福克勒斯曾如此打趣道，“但无论如何，他在床上是个爱女性的人.”

Sophocles, Electra, trans. Anne Carson (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001), 41–49. All subsequent references to this edition are given in the text with reference to Anne Carson's own pagination.

2. Sophocles, Electra, 反式。安妮卡森（纽约：牛津大学出版社，2001 年），41-49。所有随后对该版本的引用都在正文中参考安妮卡森自己的页码给出。

What classical literature there was — for example, just seven out of over 120 plays by Sophocles — had survived because medieval monks had thought it worth preserving, copying it over and over again down the generations.

古代文学的作品，比如索福克勒斯的 120 多部剧作中仅剩下七部，之所以幸存下来，是因为中世纪的修道士认为它们值得保存，代代相传进行了反复抄写。

We might, however, speculate that the foremost  influence on him throughout his education were the great Greek playwrights, Aeschylus, Sophocles,   Aristophanes and Euripides and the Roman comic and tragic playwrights Plautus, Terence and Seneca.

然而，我们可以推测，在他的整个教育过程中对他影响最大的是伟大的希腊剧作家埃斯库罗斯、索福克勒斯、阿里斯托芬和欧里庇得斯，以及罗马喜剧和悲剧剧作家普劳图斯、特伦斯和塞内卡。

Goldhill discusses Sophocles' Philoctetes, where the latter gradually persuades Neoptolemus, who has been sent to force him back to Troy, until Heracles appears in a deus ex machina and the matter is settled by a kind of divine violence or force.

Goldhill 讨论了 Sophocles 的 Philoctetes，后者逐渐说服了 Neoptolemus，Neoptolemus 被派遣迫使他返回特洛伊，直到 Heracles 出现在 deus ex machina 中， 事情被一种神圣的暴力或力量解决了。