With Sophocles, Greek tragedy reached its most characteristic form. His plays were produced in the following order: Ajax (c.450 b.c.), Antigone (441 b.c.), … More Oedipus Tyrannus (c.430 b.c.), Trachiniae (c.430 b.c.), Electra (between 418 and 410 b.c.), Philoctetes (409 b.c.), and Oedipus at Colonus (posthumously in 401 b.c.). He wrote approximately 123 plays, of which 7 tragedies are extant, as well as a fragment of his satiric play, Ichneutae (Hunters).
3), and led his chorus and actors in mourning for Euripides just a few months before his own death. for first prize in tragedy, wrote a poem to Herodotus (see Vol.
In the dramatic contests, he defeated Aeschylus in 468 b.c. He served faithfully as a treasurer and general for Athens when it was expanding its empire and influence. (HEB-50-2).The Greek dramatist Sophocles, born to a wealthy family at Colonus, near Athens, was admired as a boy for his personal beauty and musical skill. Minor shelf wear with very minor chipping to corners. Oedipus (Greek mythological figure) - Drama. SUBJECTS: Sophocles - Translations into Hebrew. He was fluent in many languages including Latin and Greek and he translated into Hebrew Homer's Iliad and the Odyssey as Shakespeare's Twelfth night and Macbeth (Wiki, 2016). The tragedy was translated by the Hebrew Zionist poet and fathers of modern Hebrew poetry, Shaul Tchernichowsky. Over the centuries, it has come to be regarded by many as the Greek tragedy par excellence and certainly as the summit of Sophocles' achievements. It follows the story of King Oedipus of Thebes as he discovers that he has unwittingly killed his own father, Laius, and married his own mother, Jocasta. " Oedipus the King is a tragedy by the ancient Greek playwright Sophocles and first performed in about 429 BCE.
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