... more than 100 plays, of which 7 complete tragedies and fragments of 80 or 90 others are preserved. The seven extant plays are Antigone, Oedipus Tyrannus or Oedipus Rex (Oedipus the King), Electra, Ajax, Trachiniae (Maidens of Trachis), Philoctetes, and Oedipus at Colonus (produced posthumously in 401 BC). Also preserved is a large fragment of the Ichneutae (Investigators), a satiric drama discovered on papyrus in ... Philoctetes is known to date from 409 BC. All seven extant tragedies are considered outstanding for their powerful, intricate plots and dramatic style, and at least three - ...

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... two components tragedy and comedy. There were three great tragic playwrights ancient Athens; Aeschylus, Euripides, and Sophocles. Sophocles (496-406 BC) wrote over 100 plays including Antigone, Oedipus Rex, Electra, Ajax, Trachiniae, Philoctetes, and Oedipus of Colonus. Most of the plays deal with tragedy. For example, in Antigone, Antigone disobeys the king's order and buries her brother who was killed in a rebellion. She ... ...

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... makes some error in judgment. The hero, like any man, is human. He deviates from morality or from a full knowledge of his situation, and his deviation destroys him .In Sophocles's Oedipus Rex the hero is a good-hearted but headstrong young man who kills his own father and marries his mother without knowing that they are his parents. When he discovers what he ... ...

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