He was only twenty-seven when his first tragedy won the playwrights' contest, and he must have been in his late eighties when he wrote his last surviving play. A general in the Peloponnesian War, he was the choragos when the Athenians celebrated victory over Xerxes at Salamis. FTP, name this playwri
He was only twenty-seven when his first tragedy won the playwrights' contest, and he must have been in his late eighties when he wrote his last surviving play. A general in the Peloponnesian War, he was the choragos when the Athenians celebrated victory over Xerxes at Salamis. FTP, name this playwright who added the third actor to Greek tragedy - the author of Women of Trachis, Philoctetes and Antigone.
He was only twenty-seven when his first tragedy won the playwrights' contest, and he must have been in his late eighties when he wrote his last surviving play.
{Sophocles}