biography
pronunciation:
[sofokleez]
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| male
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| lived:
| (c.496–406 BC)
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| biography:
| Greek tragic playwright, born in Colonus Hippius. He wrote 123 plays, of which only seven survive, all written after his victory over Aeschylus in a dramatic contest in 468 BC: Ajax, Electra, Women of Trachis, Philoctetes, and his three major plays Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone. His introduction of a third actor, taking further the innovations of Aeschylus, allowed greater complexity of plot and a greater depth of character in Greek drama. He played an important part in Athenian public life, and assisted Pericles in the war against the Samians (440 BC). |
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