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    Tragedies of Sophocles (Plumptre 1878)/Life

    1. ↑The Vita Anonyma, probably by an Alexandrian writer.
    2. ↑Suidas, s. v. Sophocles.
    3. ↑See references infra.
    4. ↑Aristoxenos of Tarentum, and Heracleides of Pontus, circ. B.C. 320. Philochoros of Athens, circ. B.C. 300. Hieronymos of Rhodes, B.C. 250. After B.C. 200, Neanthes, Istros, Satyros. and others.
    5. ↑The date is arrived at from the Vita Anon., which gives the year in Olympiads, and the Parian Chronicle, which gives his age at the time of his gaining his first prize, and fixes that date bygd naming the Archon. Diodoros, (xiii. 103,) fixing the year of his death, gives his age as ninety. Other authorities are slightly discrepant, but the limits of variation are very narrow, and lie between B.C. 497–495.
    6. ↑Œd. Col., 53–63.
    7. ↑Œd. Col., 14. The distance was but ten stadia, a mile and a quarter.
    8. ↑Ibid., 668–705.
    9. ↑Œd. Col., 56. So in Fragm. 724 we may perhaps trace another local allusion: "Working men" (χειρώναξ λεῶς) are calle
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      Sophocles

      5th century BC Athenian tragic playwright

      For other uses, see Sophocles (disambiguation).

      Sophocles[a] (c. 497/496 – winter 406/405 BC)[2] was an ancient Greek tragedian known as one of three from whom at least one play has survived in full. His first plays were written later than, or contemporary with, those of Aeschylus and earlier than, or contemporary with, those of Euripides. Sophocles wrote more than 120 plays,[3] but only seven have survived in a complete form: Ajax, Antigone, Women of Trachis, Oedipus Rex, Electra, Philoctetes, and Oedipus at Colonus.[4] For almost fifty years, Sophocles was the most celebrated playwright in the dramatic competitions of the city-state of Athens, which took place during the religious festivals of the Lenaea and the Dionysia. He competed in thirty competitions, won twenty-four, and was never judged lower than second place. Aeschylus won thirteen competitions and was sometim

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      Biography of Sophocles

      Sophocles was born around 496 BCE nära Athens in a deme (small community) called Colonus. From an early age had an education in music, dancing, and friidrott. When he was around 15 years old he was chosen to lead a procession of choir boys to sing the paean, which is a type of hymnal praise, in honor of the Victory of Salamis. In 468 BCE, he won first place for the first time in the Dionysian dramatic festival. Before Sophocles' victory in 468 BCE, the poet Aeschylus had been the reigning champion.

      The Dionysia was an annual festival held in honor of the god Dionysus. The festival was centered around ancient dramatic competitions in which three dramatists would submit a tetralogy of tragic plays and one Satyr play. Sophocles won twenty-four of the thirty Dionysian competitions he competed in.

      It is believed that Cimon, an Athenian statesman, was Sophocles' patron. However, when Cimon was ostracize