Sophocles marble statue

Sophocles

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  • Period: 497 BCE to 405 BCE

    Sophocles Life

  • 496 BCE

    Where he was born

    Where he was born
    Sophocles was born in a village that was outside the walls of Athens.
  • 483 BCE

    Education

    Education
    poetry, music, dancing, and gymnastics. His teacher was Aeschylus kinda
  • 444 BCE

    First play

    First play
    Sophocles first play was Ajax
  • 443 BCE

    Genre of plays

    Tragedy
  • 443 BCE

    Politics

    Sophocles entered politics in his life he, was a hellenotamiai , then he became a chairman
  • 441 BCE

    Antigone

    Antigone
    The play is about Antigone disobeying Creon's rules when she wants to bury her brother
  • 440 BCE

    Military Commander

    Military Commander
    Sophocles served as a military commander along with Pericles during the Samian Revolt
  • 429 BCE

    Oedipus Rex

    Oedipus Rex
    The play is about how a king named Oedipus gives away his son thinking to be the child of another king
  • 425 BCE

    Achievements

    Ancients Authorities credited him with major and minor innovations like third actor in a dramatic performance and scene paintings.
  • 420 BCE

    Famous play

    Famous play
    His most famous play was Oedipus Rex/ The King
  • 410 BCE

    Language used

    usually was highly formalized with flexibility by adding running over sentences and including segments of more 'natural' speech, and the unusual use of pauses result in Sophocles achieving a greater rhythm, fluidity, and dramatic tension than his contemporaries.
  • 406 BCE

    The Oedipus Trilogy

    The Oedipus Trilogy
    Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone
  • 406 BCE

    Oedipus at Colonus

    Oedipus at Colonus
    Oedipus presents his case to the Chorus at Colonus and to Theseus, king of Athens, claiming that he is a victim, that he sought to avoid the prophecy by leaving Corinth, and that he had no desire to kill his father or marry Jocasta. This is also considered his last play ever written from Sophocles
  • 406 BCE

    Other innovations

    He helped establish the standard formula for Greek Tragedy, it would define the foundations of all western theatre for millennia,
  • 406 BCE

    Greek mythology

    Some of Sophocles plays were based on real life and Greek mythology.
  • 405 BCE

    Sophocles death

    He died in 405 BC by choking on a grape

  • The seven plays

    Ajax, Antigone, Trachinian Women, Oedipus the King, Electra, Philoctetes, and Oedipus at Colonus. These are the last surviving plays from Sophocles

  • Sophocles work

    His work escaped the field of theatre, it entered the fields of Psychology.