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Bust of Sophocles, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen (photograph by Wolfgang Sauber, CC BY-SA 3.0)
Bust of Sophocles, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen (photograph by Wolfgang Sauber, CC BY-SA 3.0) · Wikimedia Commons

Author

Sophocles

c. 497–406 BC · Tragedian

He wrote more than a hundred and twenty plays and won more victories than any other Athenian tragedian. Seven survive, among them Oedipus the King and Antigone.

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The seven surviving tragedies, in Greek beside Richard Jebb’s English.

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