Born in 495 B.C. about a mile northwest of Athens, Sophocles was to become one of the great playwrights of the golden age. The son of s wealthy merchant, he would enjoy all the comforts of thriving Greek empire. He studied all of the arts. At the age of twenty-eight, his studies complete, he was ready to compete in the City Dionysia.
In the first competition, Sophocles took first prize. Sophocles wrote many more plays, and he went on winning eighteen first prizes and he …showed first 85 words of 377 total…
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…showed last 85 words of 377 total…going on back in those days. It was a story that was built up. It started slow and slowly got more exciting to a point that Electra found her brother and he killed everyone, and that point was the climax of the play. Sophocles is the person that invented the third actor, but since I did not see the play, it was a little bit hard to imagine the importance and the great dramatic affects of a third actor. Overall “Electra was a fascinating play.
