Sophocles
495 BC–405 BC
ancient Greek playwright
writer · priest · politician
Born in Colonus
Contemporaries
People who walked the earth at the same time as Sophocles:
- Confucius (550 BC–478 BC)
- Plato (428 BC–348 BC)
- Socrates (469 BC–398 BC)
- Herodotus (483 BC–424 BC)
- Hippocrates (459 BC–369 BC)
- Euripides (480 BC–406 BC)
- Aeschylus (524 BC–455 BC)
- Democritus (460 BC–360 BC)