Sophocles

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 * Sophocles **
 * (496-406 B.C.) **
 * Playwright: Oedipus Trilogy **
 * won 24 contests,never lower than 2nd;
 * believed to have introduced the 3rd actor;
 * fixed the chorus at 15 (had been 50)

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**Sophocles" Works ** > (R.C. Trevelyan, transl.) > (R.C. Jebb, transl.) > (R.C. Jebb, transl.) > (F. Storr, transl.) > (F. Storr, transl.) > (Thomas Francklin, transl.) > (R.C. Jebb, transl.)
 * Ajax - 440 B.C.
 * Antigone - 442 B.C.
 * Electra - 410 B.C.
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 30px; text-align: left;">Oedipus at Colonus -
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 30px; text-align: left;">Oedipus the King -
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 30px; text-align: left;">Philoctetes - 409 B.C.
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 30px; text-align: left;">The Trachiniae - 430 B.C.