Sophocles
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- Series: Great Lives from History: The Ancient World, Prehistory-476
- Categories: Literature, Publishing, Arts
- Subcategories: Politicians, Diplomats, Authors, Writers, Drama, Theater, Playwrights, Generals, Military Officers, Soldiers, Hellenistic Age, Ancient Greece
- Curriculum: Western Civilization/European History, Ancient History
Article abstract: Greek playwright{$I[g]Greece;Sophocles} One of the most important ancient Greek tragedians, Sophocles was an innovative and skilled master of character development and dramatic irony.
Early Life
The life of Sophocles (SAHF-uh-kleez) is known from a variety of ancient sources but especially from an Alexandrian biography included in the manuscript tradition of his plays. The playwright was born about 496 b.c.e. in Colonus, a suburb of Athens, which Sophocles commemorated in his last play, Oidipous epi Kolōnōi (401 b.c.e.;...
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