![]() Aeschylus won thirteen competitions, and was sometimes defeated by Sophocles Euripides won four. ![]() He competed in thirty competitions, won twenty-four, and was never judged lower than second place. For almost fifty years, Sophocles was the most celebrated playwright in the dramatic competitions of the city-state of Athens which took place during the religious festivals of the Lenaea and the Dionysia. Sophocles wrote over 120 plays, but only seven have survived in a complete form: Ajax, Antigone, Women of Trachis, Oedipus Rex, Electra, Philoctetes and Oedipus at Colonus. ![]() ![]() His first plays were written later than, or contemporary with, those of Aeschylus and earlier than, or contemporary with, those of Euripides. 497/6 – winter 406/5 BC) was an ancient Greek tragedian, known as one of three from whom at least one play has survived in full. ![]()
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