Playwright · 497 BC – 406 BC
Sophocles
Little-Known Facts
- He is said to have written around 120 plays but only seven complete tragedies survive.
- Sigmund Freud borrowed the name of his play for the 'Oedipus complex'.
Myths & Misconceptions
Did Sophocles invent the Oedipus story?
The Oedipus myth was older than Sophocles, but his Oedipus Rex gave it the definitive dramatic form that has influenced literature ever since.