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Greek dramatist, author of Oedipus Rex
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Sophocles (; , Sophoklēs , ; 497/6 – winter 406/5 BC) is one of three ancient Greek tragedians whose plays have survived. His first plays were written later than those of Aeschylus , and earlier than or contemporary with those of Euripides . Sophocles wrote ...
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When the once applauded dramatist Aeschylus lost a prize to the currently applauded Sophocles, he was so enraged that he left Athens for Sicily, where he came to a most satisfying end.
Aeschylus built a trilogy around Agamemnon, Sophocles built a trilogy about Oedipus, and so on.
The tragedies of Sophocles and Euripides paint to me almost literally the sentiments of the red men respecting necessity, fatality, the miseries of human life, and the rigor of blind destiny.
Why did they insist upon turning what ought to have been a comedy with Verres the butt into a tragedy as great as anything Sophocles dreamed of?