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Sophokles (1)Sophocles

(496-406 BCE) An Athenian playwright who has the rare honor to have been loved and appreciated in his own time and down through the ages until the present day.

He was a man of wealth, physical beauty and commanding personality; his extant plays include: The Theban Plays (Oedipus Tyrannus, Antigone and Oedipus at Colonus), Elektra (Electra), Aias (Ajax), Trakhiniae (Trachiniae) and Philoktetes (Philoctetes); he was a renowned citizen of the city of Athens but seemed to have no political ambitions; he had two sons: Iophon and Agathon.

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