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Ideas of Sophocles, by Text

[Greek, c.496 - 406 BCE, Born at Colonus. Author of tragic dramas in Athens. Died in Athens.]

430BCE Women of Trachis
p.20 Sophoclean heroes die terrible deaths when they oppose the new Athenian values [Grayling]