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| | Sophocles (c. 495-406 B.C.) |
 | | He saw the Persian wars and the Peloponnesian wars, the whole career of Themistocles, Cimon, Pericles, and Nicias, the rise and perfection of all the arts of poetry and form, and all the great Athenians between Aristides and Plato. |
 | | SOPHOCLES, the son of Sophilus, was born at Colonus, a village about one mile from Athens, in 495 B.C., five years before Marathon, and fifteen before Salamis. |
 | | He died just before the disastrous close of the Peloponnesian war. |
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