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Bookmark or Share- Sophocles - Greek MythologyAfter the death of his predecessor (456/5 BC), Sophocles became the preeminent playwright in Athens, a title he held onto for the next half a century, practically until his very death at the age of 90 in the winter of 406/5 BC.
- Sophocles | Biography, Plays, Legacy, & Facts | BritannicaSophocles, 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 EncyclopediaSophocles 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: Who Was the Second of the Greek Tragedians? - TheCollectorSophocles 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 - Greek Tragedy, Oedipus, Antigone | BritannicaSophocles - 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.
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