Sophocles mini biography of sylvester

The time of his death is fixed by the allusions to it in the Frogs of Aristophanes and in the Muses, a lost play of Phrynichus, the comic poet, which were both produced in 405 B.C., shortly before the capture of Athens.

And the legend which implies that Lysander allowed him funeral honors is one of those which, like the story of Alexander and Pindar’s house at Thebes, we can at least wish to be founded on fact, though we should probably substitute Agis for Lysander.

Apart from tragic victories, the event of Sophocles’ life most fully authenticated is his appointment at the age of fifty-five as one of the generals who served with Pericles in the Samian War (440-439 B.C.).

Conjecture has been rife as to the possibility of his here improving acquaintance with Herodotus, whom he probably met some years earlier at Athens. But the distich quoted by Plutarch—

is a slight ground on which