Numberless are the worlds wonders, but none more wonderful than man.Sophocles
“No one loves the messenger who brings bad news.”
Playwright · 497 BC – 406 BC
Sophocles was an Athenian tragedian who wrote more than 120 plays, of which seven survive complete. Oedipus Rex and Antigone, his most famous works, set the pattern for Western tragedy.
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