The playwright Sophocles is one of the …
Years: 413BCE - 413BCE
The playwright Sophocles is one of the ten commissioners who govern Athens from 413, following the disastrous Sicilian expedition.
Euripides produces his own interpretation of the curse on the House of Atreus with his version of Electra, produced in 413, which covers the same events but paints a more psychologically realistic portrait of the infamous matricide.
Locations
People
Groups
- Ionians
- Dorians
- Aeolians
- Greece, classical
- Sicily, classical
- Italy, classical
- Sparta, Kingdom of
- Magna Graecia
- Syracuse, Corinthian city-state of
- Peloponnesian League (Spartan Alliance)
- Athenian Empire (Delian League)
Topics
- Iron Age Europe
- Greek colonization
- Iron Age Cold Epoch
- Classical antiquity
- Peloponnesian War, Second or Great
- Sicilian Expedition
- Decelean War, or Ionian War
