History Creator / Sophocles

* ''Oedipus'' trilogy

* ''Theatre/TheProgeny'', a fragment -- no more than a few lines have survived.

Sophocles (497/6 – 406/5 BC) is one of the three Greek tragedians whose work has survived to the present day (the others being Creator/{{Aeschylus}} and Creator/{{Euripides}}). His best-known work is the play ''Theatre/OedipusTheKing''.

* # ''Theatre/OedipusTheKing''
* # ''Theatre/OedipusAtColonus''
* # ''Theatre/{{Antigone}}''

* ''Theatre/{{Antigone}}''

* ''Theatre/OedipusAtColonus'', the sequel to ''Oedipus the King''.
* ''Theatre/OedipusTheKing''

Sophocles is one of the three Greek tragedians whose work has survived to the present day (the others being Creator/{{Aeschylus}} and Creator/{{Euripides}}). His best-known work is the play ''Theatre/OedipusTheKing''.

* DrivenToSuicide: Ajax, Antigone, Deianeira.

* BecauseDestinySaysSo: ''Oedipus the King''

* DrivenToSuicide: Ajax, Antigone, Jocasta, Deianeira.

* SelfFulfillingProphecy: Trying to prevent the prophecy that their son will kill his father and marry his mother, Laios and Jocasta order that he be abandoned in the wild. But the baby is saved, and he not knowing his parents (nor they knowing him) is, of course, the set-up that makes the prophecy actually come true.
** It's worse than that. Oedipus, unaware that he is adopted, visits an oracle and is told that he will kill his father. He immediately flees from his parents so that he can't possibly kill his (adopted) father... and runs into Laios on the road where they get into a fight...
* YouCantFightFate: The measures Oedipus' parents take to prevent the prophecy from coming true are in vain.

** MamasBabyPapasMaybe: There's a play called ''Creusa'', and the only Creusa known in Myth/ClassicalMythology is from {{Euripides}}' ''Ion''.

** MamasBabyPapasMaybe: There's a play called ''Creusa'', and the only Creusa known in ClassicalMythology is from {{Euripides}}' ''Ion''.

* BecauseDestinySaysSo: ''Theatre/OedipusTheKing''

* RummageSaleReject: According to {{Aristophanes}}, the hoopoe costume in the lost play ''Tereus'' was ridiculous.

** DidTheyOrDidntThey: ''Odysseus Acanthoplex'' is based of the version of the myth where Odysseus and Circe did.

Sophocles is one of the three Greek tragedians whose work has survived to the present day (the others being Creator/{{Aeschylus}} and Creator/{{Euripides}}). His best-known work is the play ''Theatre/OedipusTheKing''. His other surviving plays include ''Theatre/OedipusAtColonus'', ''Theatre/{{Ajax}}'', ''Theatre/{{Antigone}}'', ''Theatre/TheWomenOfTrachis'', ''Theatre/{{Electra}}'', and ''Theatre/{{Philoctetes}}''. Of another one, ''Theatre/TheProgeny'', no more than a few lines have survived.

Sophocles is one of the three Greek tragedians whose work has survived to the present day. His best-known work is the play ''Theatre/OedipusTheKing''. His other surviving plays include ''Theatre/OedipusAtColonus'', ''Theatre/{{Ajax}}'', ''Theatre/{{Antigone}}'', ''Theatre/TheWomenOfTrachis'', ''Theatre/{{Electra}}'', and ''Theatre/{{Philoctetes}}''. Of another one, ''Theatre/TheProgeny'', no more than a few lines have survived.

* GreekChorus: {{Aristotle}} in ''Literature/{{Poetics}}'' cited him as how choruses ''should'' work.

* GreekChorus: Creator/{{Aristotle}} in ''Literature/{{Poetics}}'' cited him as how choruses ''should'' work.

* BadAss

** In the same vein, SelfFulfillingProphecy
** YouCantFightFate

* FirstInstallmentWins: Subversion: Of his Oedipus trilogy, ''Theatre/OedipusTheKing'' is much better known than ''Theatre/OedipusAtColonus'' or ''Theatre/{{Antigone}}'', but while ''Oedipius The King'' is chronologically first, ''Antigone'' was actually written before it.
* GreekChorus: {{Aristotle}} in ''Literature/{{Poetics}}'' cited him as how choruses ''should'' work.

Sophocles is one of the three Greek tragedians whose work has survived to the present day. His best-known work is the play ''Theatre/OedipusTheKing''. His other surviving plays include ''Theatre/OedipusAtColonus'', ''Theatre/{{Ajax}}'', ''Theatre/{{Antigone}}'', ''Theatre/TheWomenOfTrachis'', ''Theatre/{{Electra}}'', and ''Theatre/{{Philoctetes}}''.

!! Tropes present in his work include: