Sophocles (497 B.C.-406 B.C.)

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The Ajax of Sophocles, February 1904

The Ajax of Sophocles, March 23, 1904

Hull-House, 1908

Woman's Conscience and Social Amelioration, April 6, 1908

Woman's Conscience and Social Amelioration, April 6, 1908

We Must Go Man Hunting (excerpt), April 26, 1908

Autobiographical Notes Upon Twenty Years at Hull-House: The Resources of the Immigrant, August 1910

Old Glory: The Flag of Hope for World Peace, 1915

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Birth Date

c. 0497 B.C.

Death Date

c. 0406 B.C.

Birthplace

Colonus, Attica

Biographical Text

Sophocles was an ancient Greek playwright from Athens. He is famous for the Theban plays, Oedipus Rex, Antigone, and Oedipus at Colonus. In addition to these popular plays, he wrote 4 others that survive in full today, and wrote up to 123 plays total, though most are only fragments today.