c. 497–406 BCE · tragic poet
Sophocles
Σοφοκλῆς
Known · AttestedNot attested in Alexandria.
Athenian tragedian, of whose 120-odd plays seven survive in the selection made for schools in the Roman period. His official Athenian text was among those Galen says Ptolemy III kept.
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On the shelves
- Sophocles, Tragedies and the satyr-play Trackers · c. 468–406 BCE · Survives in large part
Moments
- c. 246–222 BCE · A story told by Galen: the books from the ships Legend: told story
In the show
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Sources (2)
- [Plutarch], Lives of the Ten Orators 841f
- Galen, Commentary on Hippocrates' Epidemics III 2.4 (Kühn XVIIa.607)