Sophocles
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Sophocles was an ancient Greek tragedian, one of three from whom at least two plays have survived in full. His first plays were written later than, or contemporary with, those of Aeschylus and earlier
A marble relief of a poet, perhaps Sophocles
Sophocles, ancient Roman mosaic
Portrait of the Greek actor Euiaon in Sophocles's Andromeda, c. 430 BC.
Oedipus at Colonus
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Oedipus at Colonus is the second of the three Theban plays of the Athenian tragedian Sophocles. It was written shortly before Sophocles's death in 406 BC and produced by his grandson at the Festival o
Oedipus at Colonus by Fulchran-Jean Harriet
Oedipus at Colonus, Jean-Antoine-Théodore Giroust, 1788, Dallas Museum of Art