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- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 496 BCE
- Died
- 406 BCE
- Place of birth
- Colonus
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- Sophocles
- Genre
- Greek tragedy
- Field of work
- literature, drama, politics
- Occupation
- tragedy writer, playwright, writer, priest, politician, philosopher
- Citizenship
- Classical Athens
- Native language
- Ancient Greek
- depicted by
- Sophocles (bust), Statue of Sophocles (Lateran type), Head of Sophocles, Sophocles (cast from a statue in the Lateran Museum)
- described by source
- Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Larousse Encyclopedia online, Larousse Encyclopedia online, Sophocles, 1870 Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, Russian translation of Lübker's Antiquity Lexicon, Pauly–Wissowa, BEIC Digital Library, Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary, The Nuttall Encyclopædia
- different from
- Sophocles
- documentation files at
- SAPA Foundation, Swiss Archive of the Performing Arts
- languages spoken, written or signed
- Ancient Greek
- name in native language
- Σοφοκλῆς
- notable work
- Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone, Philoctetes, Ajax, Electra, Trachiniae, Ichneutae
- topic's main category
- Category:Sophocles
- work location
- Ancient Greece
- writing language
- Ancient Greek
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