Sophocles, (born c. 496 BCE, Colonus, near Athens Greece — died 406, Athens), with Aeschylus and Euripides, one of classical Athens’s three great tragic playwrights. The best known of his 123 dramas is Oedipus the King.
Britannica, 2020
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Plays inspired by Antigone
- The Burial at Thebes by Seamus Heaney