who is sophocles?
Sophocles is an ancient Greek playwright. Son of Sophilus, born in Colonus, Greece in 495 BC. Not much about his life outside of the theater is know. His father was a wealthy member of the rural community of Colonus Hippius in Attica. Where Sophocles was believed to be born. He dies in Athens, Greece in 406 BC.
What did sophocles do?
Sophocles wrote 120 plays in his lifetime. Only seven of them remain in their entirety today. He was the first playwright to add in a third hypocrit. He also abolished the "trilogic form", which is when one story or play can not be read with out reading the ones before it. He made it so each play could be a complete story and stand on its own.
his theben plays.
Oedipus the King.
Oedipus at Colonus.
Antigone.
Oedipus at Colonus.
Antigone.