Sophocles

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was talked about all over town for many years because the audience was so fascinated. But before you knew it was to take another route and end his acting career to venture elsewhere. For many years served as a dictated priest in the service of two heroes named Alcon and Asclepius, who was the god of medicine. Not only did he do this but he also served on the Board of Generals which was a committee that administered civil and military affairs in Athens. For some time after that, was the director of the Treasury. This was where controlled the funds of the association of states which were to be known as the Delian Confederacy. Being one of the great innovators of the theatre, was the first playwright to add a third actor to his plot. In doing this, he annulled the trilogic form. For example, Aeschylus used three tragedies to explain a single story. preferred to make each tragedy a complete entry in itself. As a result of this, had to crowd all of his action into the ...

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