- Sophocles - Wikipedia
Sophocles[a] (c 497 496 – winter 406 405 BC) [2] was an ancient Greek tragedian known as one of three from whom at least two plays have survived in full His first plays were written later than, or contemporary with, those of Aeschylus and earlier than, or contemporary with, those of Euripides
- Sophocles | Biography, Plays, Legacy, Facts | Britannica
Sophocles, with Aeschylus and Euripides, one of classical Athens’s three great tragic playwrights The best known of his 123 dramas is Oedipus the King Among his other notable works are Antigone, Ajax, Philoctetes, Trachinian Women, and Electra Learn more about his life and works in this article
- Sophocles - World History Encyclopedia
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
- Sophocles Biography - family, death, wife, school, mother, young, son . . .
The Greek playwright Sophocles was responsible for several improvements in the presentation of drama His tragedies (plays in which characters suffer because of their actions and usually die) rank him among the greatest Greek classical dramatists
- Sophocles: Who Was the Second of the Greek Tragedians?
Sophocles lived a life of wealth and renown as the most successful of the three great Greek tragedians, but was cursed by an ambivalence to it Who Was Sophocles? Sophocles was born in 497 BCE in a small village just outside of Athens named Colonus
- Sophocles – Ancient Greece – Classical Literature
Sophocles (Sophokles) was the second of the three great ancient Greek tragedians (after Aeschylus and before Euripides) whose work has survived Only seven of his 123 plays have survived in a complete form but, for almost fifty years, he was the most-awarded playwright in the Dionysia dramatic competitions of the city-state of Athens
- Sophocles - Encyclopedia. com
The Greek tragedian Sophocles (496-406 B C ) ranks foremost among Greek classical dramatists and has been called the poet of Greek humanism par excellence The son of Sophilus, a well-to-do industrialist, Sophocles was born in Colonus near Athens and grew up in the most brilliant intellectual period of Athens
- Sophocles (1), Athenian tragic playwright | Oxford Classical Dictionary
Sophocles was one of the three great masters of the genre of Greek tragedy His life spanned the 5th century bce, and saw him compose approximately 123 dramas, while simultaneously occupying a series of important offices within the democratic state of ancient Athens
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