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| | Encyclopedia: Sophocles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) |
 | | Sophocles (early 5th century BCâ“406 BC; Greek: ΣοÏοκληÏ) was an ancient Greek playwright, dramatist, priest, and politician of Athens. |
 | | He is sometimes known as the Attic Bee for the "sweetness of his productions." Sophocles is the second, chronologically, of the three great Greek tragedians; he was several decades younger than Aeschylus and a decade or so older than Euripides, and was often in competition with both in dramatic contests. |
 | | The Progeny (Epigonoi) is a ancient Greek tragedy written by the Greek playwright Sophocles in the 5th century BC and based, as are most Greek tragedies, on Greek mythology. |
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