Sophocles

Sophocles was born around 496 BCE in Colonus, near Athens, the son of a wealthy armourer, and as an adolescent led the chorus that celebrated the victory of Salamis. In 468 he won his first tragic competition against Aeschylus, and some twenty victories in all. He was also treasurer of the Delian League in 443 and a general alongside Pericles during the Samos expedition in 440. He wrote one hundred and twenty-three plays, of which seven have come down to us complete, and died around 406 at over ninety years of age.

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