Sophocles: Antigone

Sophocles: Antigone The F. Storr translation (1912) for the Loeb Classical Library Edited with introduction and footnotes by E. E. Garvin (2013). Introduction Sophocles Sophocles was born at Colonus, a small village just to the north-west of Athens, in 496/5 BC. The details of his family and his youth are obscure, but it seems probable that his father, Sophilus (or Sophillus) operated factories or hired out skilled slaves. What is certain is that his family was not aristocratic but was well off; certain only because Sophocles was afforded the best education as a youth. He was only fifteen when he and his family fled to Salamis to witness the occupation of Athens by Xerxes, and after the Battle of Salamis Sophocles was a member of a boys chorus which performed at the dedication of the trophy celebrating the victory.

Oedipus at Colonus and Oedipus Rex Antigone. While these plays appear to form a trilogy, each is the sole surviving play from three separate trilogies nine plays in all, six of which are lost. The earliest of these trilogies was - produced in 440 and featured Antigone.

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