Sophocles

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Sophocles is one of three ancient Greek tragedians whose plays have survived. Sophocles wrote over 120 plays, but only seven have survived in a complete form: Ajax, Antigone, Women of Trachis, Oedipus Rex, Electra, Philoctetes, and Oedipus at Colonus.

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Oedipus the King

By Sophocles

The famed Athenian tragedy in which Oedipus’s own faults contribute to his tragic downfall.

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