Playwrights
Sophocles
n ??—406 BCE
n Wrote ~90 plays (7 survive)
n Won 18 prizes; always 1st or 2nd, never 3rd
n Wrote Oedipus cycle (not trilogy)
n Antigone probably written before Oedipus
Tyrannos, then Oedipus at Colonus
n Used chorus of 15, 2-3 actors
n Themes: complex human relationships