Sophocles

Family: Greek · Role: poet · First appears: Numa Pompilius

Numa Pompilius

• with Aesculapius (interaction) “Aesculapius sojourned with Sophocles in his lifetime”

Comparison of Numa with Lycurgus

• with Hermione (Sophocles depicts Hermione in the quoted passage.) “The thing is most distinctly given by Sophocles. --She, also, the young maid, Whose frock, no robe yet o'er it laid, Folding back, leaves her bare thigh free, Hermione.”

Pericles

• with Pericles (interaction) “when on a time Sophocles, who was his fellow-commissioner in the generalship, was going on board with him”

Cimon

• rivals with Aeschylus “And the victory was at last adjudged to Sophocles, which Aeschylus is said to have taken so ill, that he left Athens shortly after”

Nicias

• with Nicias (interaction) “he bade Sophocles the poet give his opinion first, as the senior of the board”

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Extracted from the original text of Plutarch's Lives. Made with Rho MD.