Sophocles
Ancient Greek playwright
- Fame84.8
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- Fame84.8
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- Global rank#246
- Writers rank#37
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He dominated Athens' dramatic competitions for half a century, winning 24 out of 30 contests and never placing lower than second. Of the 120-plus plays he wrote, seven survive — and two of them, Oedipus Rex and Antigone, became the template for tragedy itself.
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Sophocles was writing in Athens around 497/496 BC, entering a field already occupied by Aeschylus and soon to include Euripides. Over nearly fifty years he became the most celebrated playwright at the Lenaea and Dionysia festivals, racking up a competitive record no peer could match. He changed the form itself: Aristotle credits him with adding a third actor to the stage, which shifted weight from the chorus to the unfolding plot and let him develop characters with a depth earlier playwrights hadn't reached. More than 120 plays came from him, but only seven made it through intact — Ajax, Antig…
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