In his long life, Sophocles (born ca.
The setting of the pl.
With its passionate speeches and sensitive probing of moral and philosophical issues, this powerful drama enthralled its first Athenian audiences and won great honors for Sophocles.
In Antigone , he reveals the fate that befalls the children of Oedipus.
Of these, seven complete tragedies remain, among them the famed Oedipus Rex and Oedipus at Colonus . 496 B.
C., died after 413) wrote more than one hundred plays.
In his long life, Sophocles (born ca