Sophocles- Timeline
Updated: Apr 1, 2022
SOPHOCLES TIMELINE
497-96 B.C.E--------> Sophocles was born.
468--------------------> He got the first prize for tragedy at the festival of the Great Dionysia.
443-42----------------> Sophocles served as imperial treasurer.
c. 442 -----------------> Antigone was composed
441 – 40--------------> Sophocles served as a general
440-30(?)------------> Ajax was composed
430 – 20(?)---------->Trachiniae was produced
429 – 25(?)----------> Oedipus Rex
After 420(?)---------> Electra was composed
413 --------------------> Sophocles served as a special state commissioner.
409-------------------->Philoctetes was composed
406-5-----------------> Sophocles died
401 --------------------> Oedipus at Colonus was produced posthumously.
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