For 10 points, name this Athenian playwright of the Theban Trilogy, including Oedipus Rex.
One of this author's plays claims, "It is best not to have been born at all; but, if born, as quickly as possible to return whence one came." In that work, this playwright wrote of a man who will provide a blessing to whatever city he dies in and who offends a group of citizens by (*) sitting on a ground sacred to the Eumenides. In another of his plays, the protagonist struggles to stop a plague sent by Apollo. In that play, the title character, who later appears at Colonus, tears his eyes out with pins after learning that he inadvertently killed Laius and married Jocasta, his mother. For 10 points, name this Athenian playwright of the Theban Trilogy, including Oedipus Rex.
One of this author's plays claims, "It is best not to have been born at all; but, if born, as quickly as possible to return whence one came.
{Sophocles}