Besides Ajax, he also wrote Philoctetes and was the first to use painted backdrops on the stage and add a third actor to the action.
In one work by this author, the title character in a fit of madness slays a number of sheep whom he believes to be his rivals and keeps one, whom he thinks is Odysseus, to torture. Besides Ajax, he also wrote Philoctetes and was the first to use painted backdrops on the stage and add a third actor to the action. He also wrote of the suicides of Haemon and Eurydice after the live entombment of the title character in a play titled after the sister of Ismene. For 10 points, name this Athenian playwright of Antigone and Oedipus Rex.
In one work by this author, the title character in a fit of madness slays a number of sheep whom he believes to be his rivals and keeps one, whom he thinks is Odysseus, to torture.
{Sophocles}