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Sophocles: plays and performances (c. 496–406 BCE)

Sophocles: plays and performances (c. 496–406 BCE)

  1. Sophocles born near Athens at Colonus

    Labels: Sophocles, Colonus

  2. Leads victory chorus after Battle of Salamis

    Labels: Sophocles, Battle of

  3. First major Dionysia victory recorded for Sophocles

    Labels: City Dionysia, Sophocles

  4. Introduces a third actor to tragedy

    Labels: Sophocles, tragic performance

  5. Trachiniae performed sometime after 458 BCE

    Labels: Trachiniae, Sophocles

  6. Serves as a financial official (hellenotamias)

    Labels: hellenotamias, Sophocles

  7. Ajax staged in the same era as Antigone

    Labels: Ajax, Sophocles

  8. Elected general during the Samian War

    Labels: strategoi, Samian War

  9. Antigone performed at the City Dionysia

    Labels: Antigone, City Dionysia

  10. Oedipus Rex performed in late 430s BCE

    Labels: Oedipus Rex, Sophocles

  11. Philoctetes wins first prize at Dionysia

    Labels: Philoctetes, City Dionysia

  12. Sophocles dies; Oedipus at Colonus left for later production

    Labels: Sophocles, Oedipus at

  13. Oedipus at Colonus produced posthumously at Dionysia

    Labels: Oedipus at, Festival of

  14. Ichneutae fragments published from Oxyrhynchus papyri

    Labels: Ichneutae, Oxyrhynchus Papyri