Sophocles was a famous Greek playwright who lived from 496-406 BCE. He wrote over 120 plays, most notably the tragedy Antigone. Antigone tells the story of a woman who defies the law to bury her brother and faces the consequences. Greek tragedies were performed annually in Athens in a theater built into a hillside in honor of Dionysus, the god of wine and theater. The plays adhered to Aristotle's rules of tragedy, including focusing on a single action over a short period of time in a single location and exploring the protagonist's hamartia, or tragic flaw.

1. Antigone a Greek tragedy by Sophocles

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