SOPHOCLES BIOGRAGHY.     sophocles was born in Colonus, Atticaaround 495 b.c.e. . Sophocles was a man of great personal charm and happiness. According to tradition Sophocles wrote 123 plays and had 24 victoies in the cities annual dramatic contest. Only 7 tragedies are preserved in full at this time. Sophocles was born of a wealthy family, and enjoyed the friendship of such leading political and intellectual figures as Pericles and Herodotus. Sophocles had divided his life into 3 different periods. The first period, Ajax. The second period , was represented by antigone . and the third period, his maturity. Ajax, sophocles earliest extent play, dramatizes the upcompromising nobility, but also the rigidity of the old heroic ideal. Antigone, which turns on the heroine's devotion to her dead brother polynices. Oedipus rex is one of the influenced plays ever written, mainly because of its powerful conjunction of character and its destiny. Sophocles technical innovations made possible the further development of the drama along with more realistic lines. In most of his plays, Sophocles poses the questions of devine justice in terms of human charactor rather than in terms of the cosmic order. Sophocles soon came upon and famed "piety" durring the later ears of his life. He was thought to be the bearer of destiny that is mysteriously bound with the devine will. Overall Sophocles great dramatic achievement was to reinterpt the ancient myths through a fuller development of individual charactor.