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Sophocles (c. 497/496 – winter 406/405 BC) was an ancient Greek tragedian, known as one of three from whom at least one play has survived in full.
Sophocles (born c. 496 bce, Colonus, near Athens [Greece]—died 406, Athens) was, along with Aeschylus and Euripides, one of classical Athens’s three great tragic playwrights. The best known of his 123 dramas is Oedipus the King.
Sep 29, 2013 · Sophocles of Kolōnos (c. 496 - c. 406 BCE) was one of the most famous and celebrated writers of tragedy plays in ancient Greece and his surviving works, written throughout the 5th century BCE, include such classics as Oedipus Rex, Antigone, and Women of Trachis. As with other Greek plays, Sophocles' work is not only a record of Greek theatre ...
- Mark Cartwright
Sophocles - Greek Tragedy, Oedipus, Antigone: Only seven of Sophocles’ tragedies survive in their entirety, along with 400 lines of a satyr play, numerous fragments of plays now lost, and 90 titles.
Sophocles was the best-loved of the three great Ancient tragedieans, both as a person and as a playwright. including Ajax, Antigone, Electra, Oedipus at Colonus, Oedipus Rex, Philoctetes, Women of Trachis etc.
Jun 6, 2024 · Tragedy - Sophocles, Greek, Drama: Sophocles’ life spanned almost the whole of the 5th century. He is said to have written his last play, Oedipus at Colonus, at age 90. Only seven of his plays, of some 125 attributed to him, survive.
Sophocles. Sophocles, the son of a wealthy arms manufacturer, was born probably in 496 B.C.E. in the deme Colonus near Athens. Of all the ancient playwrights, he scored the most wins in dramatic competitions, and won the most important dramatic festival, the City Dionysia, an unmatched 18 times.
