Sophocles

Sophocles (497 BC, 496 BC, nai to 495 BC – 406 BC) ek purana time ke Greek writer rahaa, jon ki 123 plays likhis rahaa. Isme se abhi khaali 7 abhitalak survive kare hai. Sophocles ne Oedipus likha he. Tabhi 3 mahab playwrights the aur Sophocles unme se ek tha.

Surviving plays

• The Theban plays (The Oedipus Cycle):
  • Antigone
  • Oedipus the King (Oedipus Rex or Oedipus Tyrannos)
  • Oedipus at Culos
• Ajax
• The Trachiniae
• Electra
• Philoctetes