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          The Biography of Sophocles

          Sophocles was born in 496 BC in Colonus, a village just outside Athens, to a wealthy weapons-maker and a leading citizen. As a young man, Sophocles was talented at music and dancing.

          He was interested in playwriting and began to study The Odyssey and The Iliad.

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          6. An anonymous biographer of the time called him "the pupil of Homer" -suggesting that Sophocles’ great power came to him from the greatest of Greek poets. In 468 BC, Sophocles’s play Triptolemus took first prize for tragedy, while his teacher’s came in second.

          Since Athens demanded that its citizens take part in all aspects public life, Sophocles served as a diplomat, general, and even a healer. Sophocles became treasurer of the Delian Confederation in 443 B.C.; the funds he collected bolstered Athenian glory at home and around the Mediterranean.

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          Three years later, Sophocles was honored as serving as a general in the siege of Samos. Historians believe he may have served again 20 years later. He inve