Sophocles
| Sex or gender | male  |
|---|---|
| Country of citizenship | Classical Athens |
| Name in native language | Σοφοκλῆς |
| Given name | Sophocles |
| Date of birth | 496 BCE |
| Place of birth | Colonus |
| Date of death | 406 BCE |
| Place of death | Atene, Athens |
| Child | Iophon, Ariston |
| Native language | Ancient Greek |
| Languages spoken, written or signed | Ancient Greek |
| Writing language | Ancient Greek |
| Occupation | tragedy writer, playwright, writer, priest, politician |
| Field of work | literature, drama, politics |
| Work location | Ancient Greece |
| Genre | Greek tragedy |
| Depicted by | Sophocles (bust), Statue of Sophocles, Head of Sophocles, Sophocles (cast from a statue in the Lateran Museum) |
| Copyright status as a creator | copyrights on works have expired |
| Documentation files at | SAPA Foundation, Swiss Archive of the Performing Arts |
(c. 497/496 ⁇ winter 406/405 BC) [1] shiye kura lardǝ Greek be wo, shido shiga notǝnama kam fal suro yakkǝben shidowo biske makkar yǝ falnza kǝnǝngatǝna. Biskewanzə buro salak bǝ də ngawo Aeschylus bǝ-a, au zamanzə-a lan ruwotə; kuru buron, au zamanzə-a lan, Euripides be-a. Sophocles yǝ biskewa 120 kozəna, amma biskewa arakkə yǝ cotto kənəngatəna: Ajax, Antigone, Women of Trachis, Oedipus Rex, Electra, Philoctetes, kuru Oedipus at Colonus