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- Author
- Sophocles
- First published
- 1581
- Pages
- 101
- Publisher
- Veslipres mattu Pabliṣiṅg Haus, Editions de Minuit, Iōannou D. Kollarou
- Editions
- 98
- Language
- lat, Dutch, Italian, gle
- ISBN
- 9782253055440
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“Ismene, sister of my blood and heart, See’st thou how Zeus would in our lives fulfil The weird of Oedipus, a world of woes!”
Sophocles (circa. 496 BCE - 406 BCE) was the second of the three ancient Greek tragedians whose work has survived to the present day. His first plays were written later than those of Aeschylus, and earlier than those of Euripides. According to the Suda, a 10th century encyclopedia, Sophocles wrote 120 or more plays during the course of his life, but only seven have survived in a complete form, namely Ajax, Antigone, Trachinian Women, Oedipus the King, Electra, Philoctetes and Oedipus at Colonus. For almost 50 years, Sophocles was the most-awarded playwright in the dramatic competitions of ancient Athens that took place during the religious festivals of the Lenaea and the Dionysia. Sophocles
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