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Sophokles ’ Antigone Can you detect any trace of Perikles in …

Sophokles ’ Antigone Can you detect any trace of Perikles in …. Kreon ? Antigone ? Haimon ? Chorus?. or … none of these at all?. Sophokles son of Sophillos. 496-406 BCE, son of wealthy arms-maker led chorus in singing of paean after Salamis at 16

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  1. Sophokles’ AntigoneCan you detect any trace of Perikles in … • Kreon? • Antigone? • Haimon? • Chorus? or …none of these at all?

  2. Sophokles son of Sophillos • 496-406 BCE, son of wealthy arms-maker • led chorus in singing of paean after Salamis at 16 • 123 plays, 7 extant; 1st victory ca. 470 BCE • added 3rd actor  character development + skenographia • 24 1st place, 6 2nd place, and never came in 3rd place • served as hellenotamias (League treasurer) in 443/2 • elected strategos with Perikles in 441/0 due to Antigone (?)

  3. 465/4: EnneaHodoi (Amphipolis), Thrace; Thasos THRACE Strymon River Eion Carystus

  4. 465/4: Mt. Ithome, Messenia, Argos, Naupactos THESSALY Naupactus Mt. Ithome

  5. Perikles son of Xanthippos: 462/1-440/3 BCE worked with Ephialtes against Areopagus, 462/1 may have contributed to Kimon’s ostracism, 462/1 introduced pay for jurors, ca. 461-455 stopped invasion of Attica by bribing Sparta, 455/4 led expedition vs. Sikyon (Corinthian Gulf), 455/4 citizenship law, 451 elected strategos every year ca. 455-431/0 suppressed revolt on Euboea, 446 suppressed revolt of Samos with Sophocles, 440/39 Summary of his impact on Athens: Ath. Pol. 26-28 (Tracy 21-22)

  6. 460/59: Megara, Pegae, Nisaea, Corinth, Athens Pegae Nisaea

  7. 459/8 (or as early as 461/0): Long Walls, Athens

  8. DORIS OPUNTIAN LOCRIS PHOCIS PHOCIS Delphi Tanagra BOEOTIA Oenophyta Thebes Corinthian Gulf Crissaean Gulf Pegae Sicyon Megara Athens Isthmus Corinth 459/8-451/0: Corinth, Epidauros, Aegina, Corinthian coast, Sikyon Cecryphalia Aegina Epidauros Saronic Gulf Argos Haliae Sparta

  9. 459/8: Cyprus, Memphis Eurymedon River  LIBYA  EGYPT Pharos Memphis

  10. 455/4: Delian League funds transferred to Athens

  11. 451/0: Cyprus; death of Kimon; Peace of Kallias (?)  LIBYA  EGYPT Pharos Memphis

  12. 447/6-446/5: Euboea, Megara revolt

  13. Samian War, 440/39 BCE

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