# Sophocles — Nicomachean Ethics character guide

> Sophocles in Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle.

**Role:** minor

**First appearance:** 0003-book-i

## Who they are

Tragedian cited for dramatic examples of character.

## Relationships

### [Neoptolemus](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nicomachean_ethics_se/characters/neoptolemus)

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Sophocles is the playwright who created the character Neoptolemus in his tragedy Philoctetes.

### [Ulysses](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nicomachean_ethics_se/characters/ulysses)

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Sophocles wrote Ulysses (Odysseus) as a character in his plays, particularly Ajax and Philoctetes.

## In the story

### [Chapter II: The Problem of Incontinence and Knowledge](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nicomachean_ethics_se/chapters/ii)

Sophocles is noted as the author of the play 'Philoctetes' featuring Neoptolemus.

### [VII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nicomachean_ethics_se/chapters/vii)

Referenced indirectly through the character Philoctetes in the play by Theodectes, used as an example of struggling against violent pain.

### [Chapter IX: Continence and Incontinence](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/nicomachean_ethics_se/chapters/ix)

Referenced as the author of the play Philoctetes, which provides the example of Neoptolemus.

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