Sophocles

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for the naval victory at Salamis in 480 BC.” (Rexine 132)

In Sophocles’ long life he several times held public office, partly do to his fame as a dramatist and his gentle qualities as a man. “In 440 BC he was appointed one of the generals in the war which Pericles led against Samos, and in 413 BC.” (Magill, Kohler p# 1023) He was also one of the ten commissioners appointed after the failure of the expedition to Sicily, to govern Athens. Pericles once said to him “you know how to write poetry, but you certainly don’t know how to command an army” (Internet)

Sophocles first won first prize, in a competition with Aeschylus, on 468 BC at the age of twenty-eight. During his career he never won less than second prize and gained first prize twenty times, more than any other Greek tragedian. Sophocles wrote more than 120 tragedies, only a mear seven have survived. “Plutarch tells us that there were three periods in ...

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Ismene and her fiancé Haemon. Antigone goes to her death holding to her defiance and buries Polyneices.

The theme of Antigone had enormous impact in my life. Antigone stood up for what she believed in even if it cost her the ultimate sacrifice, her life. I believe that I do have the same determination, strong will and loyalty she had.

The political ramifications of her actions could have been great and wide sweeping if the King did not act as swiftly and as efficiently as he had. Antigone’s political move was wrong do to several reasons: King Creon made a decision and she should have stood by it, if she wasn’t loyal to him she should have joined her ...

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