Sophocles
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Sophocles (497 BC, 496 BC, or 495 BC – 406 BC) was an Ancient Greek writer who wrote 123 plays. Only 7 of his tragedies have survived complete. Sophocles was the second of the three greatest Ancient Greek writers of tragedies, the others being Aeschylus and Euripides.
[change] Surviving plays
- The Theban plays (The Oedipus Cycle):
- Antigone
- Oedipus the King (Oedipus Rex or Oedipus Tyrannos)
- Oedipus at Colonus
- Ajax
- The Trachiniae
- Electra
- Philoctetes
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