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Sophocles

ancient Greek playwright

11 dated entries naming Sophocles, drawn from 11 separate years between 496 BCE and 391 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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5th century BC

  • 496 BCESophocles, Athenian dramatist and statesman (died 406 BC)source
  • 468 BCESophocles, Greek playwright, defeats Aeschylus for the Athenian Prize.source
  • 441 BCEThe Greek playwright Sophocles writes Antigone.source
  • 430 BCEApproximate date – Sophocles' drama Oedipus Rex is first performed in Athens.source
  • 423 BCEAristophanes' play The Clouds is performed as is Sophocles' play Maidens of Trachi and The Putine (The Bottle), by Cratinus.source
  • 419 BCESophocles' play Electra is performed. The play takes its theme from The Libation Bearers by Aeschylus.source
  • 413 BCEAfter suffering a defeat in which the Athenian commander Lamachus is killed, Demosthenes suggests that they immediately give up the siege of Syracuse and return to Athens, where they are needed to defend against a Spartan invasion of Attica. Nicias refuses, but the Syracusans and Spartans under Hermocrates are able to trap the Athenians in the harbour and the Athenians sustain heavy losses in the Battle of Syracuse. Demosthenes is ambushed by the Syracusans and is forced to surrender. Nicias is soon captured as well, and both are executed, with most of the surviving Athenian soldiers sent to work in the Sicilian quarries. Ten proboulos (including Sophocles) are elected to help run Athens.source
  • 409 BCESophocles' play Philoctetes is performed, with the theme of the Trojan War.source
  • 406 BCESophocles, Athenian dramatist and politician (born c. 495 BC)source
  • 401 BCESophocles' tragic play Oedipus at Colonus is performed posthumously. It is produced by his grandson (also called Sophocles) at the Festival of Dionysus in Athens.source

4th century

  • 391Flames destroy the great Library of Alexandria, established in the Mouseion in the fourth century BC. Among the items lost in the fire are works of science, including parchments by the Greek astronomer Aristarchus of Samos asserting that the Earth orbits the Sun, and dozens of dramatic works by Euripides and Sophocles.source

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