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Born c.496 BCE • ancient Greece
Died 406 BCE • Athensancient Greece
Notable Works “Ajax”“Antigone”“Electra”“Oedipus Rex”“Oedipus at Colonus”“Philoctetes”“Trachinian Women”“Trackers”

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