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Sophocles was born in a village that was outside the walls of Athens. -
poetry, music, dancing, and gymnastics. His teacher was Aeschylus kinda -
Sophocles first play was Ajax -
Tragedy
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Sophocles entered politics in his life he, was a hellenotamiai , then he became a chairman
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The play is about Antigone disobeying Creon's rules when she wants to bury her brother -
Sophocles served as a military commander along with Pericles during the Samian Revolt -
The play is about how a king named Oedipus gives away his son thinking to be the child of another king -
Ancients Authorities credited him with major and minor innovations like third actor in a dramatic performance and scene paintings.
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His most famous play was Oedipus Rex/ The King -
usually was highly formalized with flexibility by adding running over sentences and including segments of more 'natural' speech, and the unusual use of pauses result in Sophocles achieving a greater rhythm, fluidity, and dramatic tension than his contemporaries.
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Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone -
Oedipus presents his case to the Chorus at Colonus and to Theseus, king of Athens, claiming that he is a victim, that he sought to avoid the prophecy by leaving Corinth, and that he had no desire to kill his father or marry Jocasta. This is also considered his last play ever written from Sophocles -
He helped establish the standard formula for Greek Tragedy, it would define the foundations of all western theatre for millennia,
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Some of Sophocles plays were based on real life and Greek mythology.
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He died in 405 BC by choking on a grape
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Ajax, Antigone, Trachinian Women, Oedipus the King, Electra, Philoctetes, and Oedipus at Colonus. These are the last surviving plays from Sophocles
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His work escaped the field of theatre, it entered the fields of Psychology.