Sophocles

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A Roman bust of Sophocles

Sophocles (497 BC, 496 BC, or 495 BC – 406 BC) was an Ancient Greek writer who wrote 123 plays. Only 7 of his tragedies have survived complete. Sophocles was the second of the three greatest Ancient Greek writers of tragedies, the others being Aeschylus and Euripides.

[change] Surviving plays

  • The Theban plays (The Oedipus Cycle):
    • Antigone
    • Oedipus the King (Oedipus Rex or Oedipus Tyrannos)
    • Oedipus at Culos
  • Ajax
  • The Trachiniae
  • Electra
  • Philoctetes

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