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SOPHOCLES

TIMELINE

Katherine Andino

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Sophocles Oedipus is born.

c. 496 BCE

c. 480 BCE

Greece

Place

Sophocles was born into a well-to-do family in the deme or suburb of Colono, outside the heart of Athens.

Childhood

At the age of 16, he was at the head of the chorus that celebrated with a peon the victory of the battle of Salamis, in which Aeschylus also participated as a combatant and which was fought in 480 B.C., the same year in which Euripides was born.

Marriage

Shortly after 460 B.C., he married Nicostrate,

Second Marriage

Sophocles fell in love with a harlot,Teóride de Sición.

c. 460 BCE

c.446 BCE

Sophocles took an active part in the political life of Athens. In 443 or 442 B.C. he was the heletomaniac.

Political Life

First Play

Thanks in part to the success of his play Antigone, performed in 442, he was elected strategist, (War of Samos)

c. 442 BCE

c. 429 BCE

Antigone is another of Sophocles' most important plays. In Oedipus Rex, a series of characters appear throughout the story which Sophocles uses for other of his plays.

Antigone

Ajax

This play is one of the most important tragedies of Sophocles. It has as a character Ajax, one of the warriors who participated in the Trojan War.

Oedipus Rex is Sophocles' most important play in which tragedy abounds and is his most admired work. This play represents in its totality what Greek tragedy is.

Oedipus Rex (429)

The 7 most important plays

Ajax

Antigone

Oedipus Rex

Electra

Oedipus at Colonus

Philoctetes

The Trackers

Plays

Death

c. 406 BCE

In 406 B.C. C. Sophocles died during the war with Sparta

Conclusion

Sophocles was one of the most important authors of the Greek era.

Many of Sophocles' Greek works develop a Greek myth that usually deals with gods and heroes of Ancient Greece.

conclusion

References

https://www.espectaculosbcn.com/sofocles-obras-mas-importantes/

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%B3focles

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