s0205l-SOPHOCLES, ancient Greek: Σοφοκλῆς, born 497/6-406 BC in Colonus Hippius in Attica, Greece, writer. 
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Image is statue of Sophocles now in the Lateran Museum in Rome. This image was first published in 1st or 2nd edition of Nordisk familjebok (1904–1926). The copyrights for that book have expired and this image is in the public domain. Sophocles, was the son of Sophillus a wealthy member of the rural deme or small community of Colonus Hippius in Attica, which would be a setting for some of his plays, ancient Greek tragedian, possibly wrote 120 or more plays, but only 7 have survived in complete form, was the most awarded playwright in dramatic competitions of ancient Athens, his most famous plays were about Oedipus and Antigone, the Theban plays or The Oedipus Cycle plays, The Oedipus Cycle consists of three plays: Antigone, Oedipus the King (Oedipus Tyrannus), and Oedipus at Colonus, the tale of Oedipus takes up the themes of being trapped by fate and family, Oedipus, in Ancient Greek mythology, killed his father and married his mother without knowledge that they were his parents, and his family is fated to be doomed for three generations, Aeschylus dominated Athenian playwrighting during Sophocles' early career, after the death of the old master Aeschylus in 456 BC Sophocles became the preeminent playwright in Athens, he became a man of importance in the public halls of Athens, he was well to do, he was an executive official that commanded the armed forces, as a junior colleague of Pericles, Plays; Ajax, Antigone, Trachinian Women, Oedipus the King, Electra, Philoctetes, and Oedipus at Colonus, Partial Plays;
Aias Lokros (Ajax the Locrian) Akhaiôn Syllogos (The Gathering of the Achaeans) Hermione Lacaenae (Lacaenian) Women) Nauplios Katapleon (Nauplius' Arrival) Nauplios Pyrkaeus (Nauplius' Fires) Niobe Oenomaus Poimenes (The Shepherds) Polyxene Syndeipnoi (The Diners, or, The Banqueters) Tereus Troilus Phaedra Triptolemus Tyro Keiromene (Tyro Shorn) Tyro Anagnorizomene (Tyro Rediscovered).
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