Sophocles

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Sophocles

Sophocles Born: c. 496 BC
Birthplace: Colonus, Greece
Died: 406 BC
Location of death: Athens, Greece
Cause of death: unspecified

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Playwright

Nationality: Ancient Greece
Executive summary: Oedipus the King

Father: Sophillus (armor maker)

Lunar Crater Sophocles (21.5S, 119.8E)

Wrote plays:
Ajax
Antigone
Electra
Oedipus at Colonus
Oediups the King
Philoctetes
The Trachiniae
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