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Sophocles Sophocles was a Greek tragic playwright who lived in Athens, Greece from c. 495 to 405 BC. His most famous plays are the Oedipus Trilogy: Antigone, Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus. His chief rival in dramatic competitions was Euripides. Like most Athenian aristicrats, Sophocles was elected and served in several government positions, including strategos, a military general. For sound, respected English translations of Sophocles, I recommend those by Robert Fagles or Richmond Lattimore, but many others are available. I include links to online translations below which look good at first glance, but I haven't checked them against the Greek.

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Sophocles - Biography and Works | Biography of Sophocles from A.E. Haigh's [i]The Tragic Drama of the Greeks[/i] | Sophocles Quotes | E-Text of Sophocles' Antigone: English translation | E-Text of Sophocles' Oedipus Rex: English Translation | E-Text of Sophocles' Philoctetes: English Translation | E-Text of Sophocles' Ajax: English Translation | E-Text of Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus: English Translation | Perseus Library's Classics Collection, including Sophocles' plays in Greek and English |

Contributed by greekgeek on January 28, 2008, at 1:23 AM UTC.

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