Sophocles ' tragedy Aegeus has been lost, but Aegeus features in Euripides ' Medea.

Most of the big innovations in tragedy were made by Aeschylus and Sophocles and yet " Euripides made innovations on a smaller scale that have impressed some critics as cumulatively leading to a radical change of direction.

Less than a hundred years later, Aristotle developed an almost " biological ' theory of the development of tragedy in Athens: according to this view, the art form grew under the influence of Aeschylus, matured in the hands of Sophocles then began its precipitous decline with Euripides.

However, " his plays continued to be applauded even after those of Aeschylus and Sophocles had come to seem remote and irrelevant ", they became school classics in the Hellenistic period ( as mentioned in the introduction ) and, due to Seneca's adaptation of his work for Roman audiences, " it was Euripides, not Aeschylus or Sophocles, whose tragic muse presided over the rebirth of tragedy in Renaissance Europe.

The episode furnished the subject of Sophocles ' lost tragedy, Laocoön.

Philoctetes stayed on Lemnos for ten years, which was a deserted island according to Sophocles ' tragedy Philoctetes, but according to earlier tradition was populated by Minyans.

From its obscure origins in the theaters of Athens 2, 500 years ago, from which there survives only a fraction of the work of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, through its singular articulations in the works of Shakespeare, Lope de Vega, Racine, and Schiller, to the more recent naturalistic tragedy of Strindberg, Beckett's modernist meditations on death, loss and suffering, and Müller's postmodernist reworkings of the tragic canon, tragedy has remained an important site of cultural experimentation, negotiation, struggle, and change.

Meanwhile tragedy, as developed by Athenian dramatists of the calibre of Aeschylus and Sophocles, had begun to emerge as the leading poetic genre, borrowing the literary dialect, the metres and poetic devices of lyric poetry in general and the dithyramb in particular ( Aristotle Poetics IV 1449a ).

< cite > Amphitryon </ cite > was the title of a lost tragedy of Sophocles, but most others who have used this story have rendered comic treatments instead.

Antigonae is in Orff's words a " musical setting " for the Greek tragedy by Sophocles of the same name.

Antigone (, ) is a tragedy by Sophocles written in or before 441 BC.

In Sophocles ' tragedy Antigone, Polynices ' story continues after his death.

Sophocles wrote a tragedy called Procris which has been lost, as has a version contained in the Greek Cycle, but at least six different accounts of her story still exist.

* Neoptolemus is one of the main characters in Philoctetes, a tragedy by Sophocles.

Variants to the story are found in later poets: for example, in a tragedy by Sophocles, Odysseus Acanthoplex ( which also does not survive ), Odysseus finds out from an oracle that he is doomed to be killed by his son.

Ancient dramatists and poets recounted the story including Sophocles in a lost tragedy called Tereus or in a set of plays by Philocles, the nephew of the great playwright Aeschylus.

In his Poetics, Aristotle points to the ″ voice of the shuttle ″ in Sophocles ′ tragedy Tereus as an example of a poetic device that aids in the ″ recognition ″ – the change from ignorance to knowledge – of what has happened earlier in the plot.

By the loosest definition, stock characters have been around ever since the tragedy of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, being based upon the traits of mythological characters.

The Greek tragedy Oedipus the King is a tragedy by Sophocles about King Oedipus who vows to find the murderer of his father Laius.

In novels such as The Mayor of Casterbridge and Tess of the d ' Urbervilles Hardy attempts to create modern works in the genre of tragedy, that are modelled on the Greek drama, especially Aeschylus and Sophocles, though in prose, not poetry, a novel not drama, and with characters of low social standing, not nobility.

After the time of Aeschylus and Sophocles, there was an age where tragedy died.

In Sophocles ' play Ajax, a famous retelling of Ajax's demise takes place — after the armor is awarded to Odysseus the hero Ajax falls to the ground, exhausted.

* Ajax ( Sophocles ), a play by the ancient Greek tragedian Sophocles

The original Greek chorus sang its part in Greek drama, and fragments of works by Euripides ( Orestes ) and Sophocles ( Ajax ) are known from papyri.

Menelaus appears as a character in a number of 5th-century Greek tragedies: Sophocles ' Ajax, and Euripides ' Andromache, Helen, Orestes, Iphigenia at Aulis, and The Trojan Women.

Another tradition, followed by Sophocles in his play Ajax and by Euripides in the lost play Kressai, was that Catreus found Aerope in bed with a slave and sent her to Nauplius to be drowned.

* Sophocles, The Ajax of Sophocles.

In Sophocles ' Ajax, Calchas delivers a prophecy to Teucer suggesting that the protagonist will die if he leaves his tent before the day is out.

According to the tradition followed by Sophocles in his play Ajax and by Euripides in his lost play Cretan Women ( Kressai ), Catreus found Aerope in bed with a slave and handed her over to Nauplius to be drowned, but Nauplius spared Aerope's life and she married Atreus, the son of Pelops, and king of Mycenae, though in the version of the story used by Euripides, she married Pleisthenes instead.

* Sophocles, The Ajax of Sophocles.

In Sophocles ’ Ajax, Tecmessa attempts to stop Ajax from committing suicide, although she is unsuccessful.

* 1960 – 61: Ajax ( Sophocles )

Lobeck's edition of the Ajax of Sophocles ( 1809 ) had gained him a reputation a scholar and critic ; his Phrynichus ( 1820 ), Paralipomena grammaticae Graecae ( vol.

* Sophocles ' Philoctetes, Electra, Trachiniae, Ajax ( 1880 )-- all with English commentary and forming part of the Bibliotheca classica

" Faber further noted errors in Zimmern's work, ( for example in Aphorism 61 where Schaf ( sheep ) is translated by Zimmern as fool where the reference is to Sophocles ' play Ajax in which the hero charges a herd of sheep )-and bowdlerizations.

* Ajax, circa 450-430 BCE tragedy by Sophocles

Sophocles lets us hear the speech Ajax gives immediately before his suicide ( which, unlike in most Greek tragedies, where action and death are reported, is called for to take place onstage ), in which he calls for vengeance against the sons of Atreus ( Menelaus and Agamemnon ) and the whole Greek army.

The central theme to Sophocles ' Ajax is the values of living and dying.

* The Ajax of Sophocles

The event is held once every three years and is a tradition which started in 1882 with the Ajax of Sophocles.

Sophocles ' Antigone ends in disaster, with Antigone hanging herself after being walled up, and Creon's son Haemon ( or Haimon ), who loved Antigone, killing himself after finding her body.

According to Sophocles ' play Antigone, Haemon or Haimon (, Haimon " bloody "; gen .: Αἴμωνος ), was the son of Creon and Eurydice.

( As Sophocles writes it in his play named Philoctetes, Odysseus is accompanied by Neoptolemus, Achilles ' son, also known as Pyrrhus.

Oedipus thus grew up in Corinth under the assumption that he was the biological son of Polybus and his wife ( whose name is Merope according to Sophocles, Periboa according to Appollodorus ).

Neoptolemus, son of Achilles, was from Skyros ( or Scyros, as its name is sometimes transliterated ), as told in the play by Sophocles, Philoctetes ( line 239 ).

In 425 BC he was appointed, with Sophocles, the son of Sostratides, to the command of an expedition destined for Sicily.

428 BC – 405 BC ) was a Greek tragic poet and son of Sophocles.

* A son of Helen and Menelaos ( according to the Catalogue of Women, Laurentian Scholiast on Sophocles ' Electra ( 539 ), and according to Apollodorus ' Bibliotheca, 3. 11. 1 )

According to Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker, however, the rival of Sophocles was a son of Choerilus, who bore the same name.