Sophocles
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Author of:
- Antigone,
- Antigone,
- Antigone,
- Antigone,
- Antigone,
- Antigone,
- Electra,
- The Oedipus Plays,
- Sophocles Plays 2,
- Sophocles Plays: 1,
- Sophocles: Ajax,
- Sophocles: Oedipus Tyrannus,
- Sophocles: Plays: Ajax,
- Sophocles: Plays: Antigone,
- Sophocles: Plays: Electra,
- Sophocles: Plays: Oedipus Coloneus,
- Sophocles: Plays: Oedipus Tyrannus,
- Sophocles: Plays: Philoctetes,
- Sophocles: Plays: Trachiniae,
- Thebes
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Biography
Sophocles (496-406 BC) was one of the three great tragic playwrights of ancient Greece; he wrote 123 plays during a career of 60 years and was still writing at the age of 90. Only seven tragedies survive, of which the most famous is Oedipus Rex.