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“Success is dependent on effort”

~Sophocles

 

Sophocles 

• One of three Greek playwrights, who wrote tragedies, whose plays have survived
• The Suda, a 10th century encyclopaedia, states that Sophocles wrote 123 plays during his life, but only seven have survived intact:
  Ajax, Antigone, Trachinian Women, Oedipus the King, Electra, Philoctetes and Oedipus at Colonus.
• Sophocles was the most celebrated playwright in the dramatic competitions of Athens, For almost 50 years
• He is reported as winning 24 of approximately 30 competitions never came lower than second.
• Sophocles has a crater on the surface of Mercury named after him.

 

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