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His long life spanned the rise and decline of the Athenian Empire; he was a friend of Pericles, and though not an active politician he held several public offices, both military and civil. The leader of a literary circle and friend of Herodotus, he was interested in poetic theory as well as practice, and he wrote a prose treatise \u003cb\u003eOn the Chorus\u003c\/b\u003e. He seems to have been content to spend all his life at Athens, and is said to have refused several invitations to royal courts.Sophocles first won a prize for tragic drama in 468, defeating the veteran Aeschylus. He wrote over a hundred plays for the Athenian theater, and is said to have come first in twenty-four contests. Only seven of his tragedies are now extant, these being \u003cb\u003eAjax\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eAntigone\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eOedipus the King\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eWomen of Trachis\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eElectra\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003ePhiloctetes\u003c\/b\u003e, and the posthumous \u003cb\u003eOedipus at Colonus\u003c\/b\u003e. A substantial part of \u003cb\u003eThe Searches\u003c\/b\u003e, a satyr play, was recovered from papyri in Egypt in modern times. Fragments of other plays remain, showing that he drew on a wide range of themes; he also introduced the innovation of a third actor in his tragedies. He died in 406 BC. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert Fagles \u003c\/b\u003e(1933-2008) was Arthur W. Marks '19 Professor of Comparative Literature, Emeritus, at Princeton University. He was the recipient of the 1997 PEN\/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation and a 1996 Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. 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