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Sophocles

Sophocles

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Athenian tragic poet whose seven surviving plays, especially Antigone and Oedipus Tyrannus, reach the public through Loebs, Perseus, festivals, and UNESCO theatres. Documented harms: most plays lost; Creon’s burial-ban; later human-rights overclaim refused. Fifth-century generalship is received, not a staff diary.

Civic tragedy of unwritten law against decreeseven-play remainder of a lost productionlater human-rights Antigone treated as reception not as a 441 covenant

Impact

Not rated yet: the verified records linked to this person, without a numeric impact.

Editorial assessment (context, not the score)

The page is not a marble tragedian and not a unique author of the UDHR. The heaviest documented costs in public English are loss of most plays, Creon’s burial-ban, OT pollution-plague, and later overclaim. The offsets are Loeb/Perseus, Antigone’s speech as a modest heading, and listed theatres.

He did not file 1988. Ministries and UNESCO did that work. Confidence is high on those books and listings, medium on civic Antigone, low on the vita. Later bilingual books remain the dated record.

Indicators affected

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Accountability & contradictions

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Responsibility

What could change this assessment

  • 6 linked facts have no assessed welfare direction yet.
  • Lifetime coverage has not been assessed: the record reflects stored facts only (1900–1988).

Causal path

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  1. PersonSophocles
  2. FactModern Epidaurus nights imply fuel, light, and crowd infrastructure of a tragic venue
  3. DriverEnergy Security
  1. PersonSophocles
  2. FactMass tourism to listed Epidaurus captures rent from tragic landscape
  3. DriverIncome Inequality
  1. PersonSophocles
  2. FactUNESCO lists Epidaurus, including the theatre still used for Sophocles
  3. DriverHumanitarian Access

Timeline

The most relevant dated facts, newest first.

  1. 1 September 1988 · Energy Security

    Modern Epidaurus nights imply fuel, light, and crowd infrastructure of a tragic venue

  2. 1 June 1988 · Income Inequality

    Mass tourism to listed Epidaurus captures rent from tragic landscape

  3. 1 January 1988 · Humanitarian Access

    UNESCO lists Epidaurus, including the theatre still used for Sophocles

  4. 1 January 1987 · Humanitarian Access

    UNESCO lists the Acropolis, including the Theatre of Dionysus landscape

  5. 1 January 1987 · Digital Learning Access

    Perseus publishes a public Antigone and Oedipus Tyrannus as searchable text

  6. 1 January 1982 · Social Cohesion

    National Theatre and related civic stages restage Antigone and Oedipus as public contemporary performance

Evidence & methodology

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29 of 29 linked facts verified, drawing on 12 distinct sources (1900–1988).

Sources include UNESCO World Heritage Centre, Perseus Digital Library / Tufts, Royal National Theatre, Hellenic Festival S.A., Pushkin Museum, British Library, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Harvard University Press.

Sources (showing 8 of 12)

  1. 1.Harvard / Loeb — Sophocles I (Ajax, Electra, Oedipus Tyrannus)Harvard University Press
  2. 2.Perseus — Sophocles, AntigonePerseus Digital Library / Tufts
  3. 3.Perseus — Sophocles, Oedipus TyrannusPerseus Digital Library / Tufts
  4. 4.UNESCO — Sanctuary of Asklepios at EpidaurusUNESCO World Heritage Centre
  5. 5.Athens-Epidaurus FestivalHellenic Festival S.A.
  6. 6.UNESCO — Acropolis, AthensUNESCO World Heritage Centre
  7. 7.National Theatre — LondonRoyal National Theatre
  8. 8.Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts — Sophocles portrait typePushkin Museum

The score is formula-derived (Factrail formula v1, version 1.0.0), not an editorial verdict. Read the methodology.

By the Factrail desk · Method: how we source and score · Last reviewed · Sources: 12

Expert analysis

An excerpt; the full analysis opens on request.

The first fact about Sophocles is a remainder of seven plays, not a recovered didascalic complete works. Loeb Sophocles at https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674995574 (opens in a new tab), Perseus Antigone at https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0186 (opens in a new tab) and Oedipus at https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0192 (opens in a new tab), plus Gutenberg English at https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/31 (opens in a new tab), are the public seven. Britannica at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sophocles (opens in a new tab) and the Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy at https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/cambridge-companion-to-greek-tragedy/ (opens in a new tab) mark loss and a thin vita. SEP ancient tragedy at https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/tragedy-ancient/ (opens in a new tab) is independent.

Later 1948-talk (OHCHR neighbourhood at https://www.ohchr.org/en/human-rights/civil-and-political-rights (opens in a new tab)) sometimes overclaims. OT plague and pollution (https://www.britannica.com/topic/Oedipus-Rex-play-by-Sophocles (opens in a new tab)) join epidemic to guilt. Generalship is received. Byzantine filters and school gates are later. Epidaurus tickets (UNESCO https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/491/ (opens in a new tab) and festival https://www.greekfestival.gr/en/ (opens in a new tab)) collect rent.

The offsets are dated. Antigone’s unwritten-law speech as a modest resilience heading — not the UDHR. Loeb/Perseus/Gutenberg access. UNESCO Acropolis at https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/404/ (opens in a new tab). Cambridge Greek Play at https://www.cambridgegreekplay.com/ (opens in a new tab). National Theatre at https://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/ (opens in a new tab). Pushkin portrait type at https://www.pushkinmuseum.art/ (opens in a new tab). BL manuscripts at https://www.bl.uk/greek-manuscripts (opens in a new tab).

What the score must not say: that he wrote a human-rights covenant; that 1912 is 441; that a Pushkin herm is a likeness from life; that 1988 undid loss. Complex contribution is the honest type. Confidence is high on the seven as public books and on UNESCO dates, medium on civic readings of Antigone, low on the vita and on unique generalship harm.

Related people are Aeschylus, Euripides, Pericles as received civic contemporary.

1912 is a Loeb. 1988 is UNESCO. 1948 is a later overclaim neighbourhood. Conventional fifth-century years are not ISO civil files here. Keep seven-play Loebs, Antigone’s ban, and Epidaurus on separate dates. Shared work remains named. Shared work with named collaborators, later editors, and institutions remains named. Day-precision is not invented where the named records are year-level. 1912-06-01 (cost, driver humanitarian-access): Loeb Antigone prints a civic decree against burial as a public teaching of state over the dead — Perseus — Sophocles, Antigone (https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0186 (opens in a new tab)); Britannica — Antigone (https://www.britannica.com/topic/Antigone-play-by-Sophocles (opens in a new tab)). 1912-03-01 (cost, driver protection-of-minority-rights): Loeb Oedipus Tyrannus prints incest and self-blinding as civic teaching of pollution — Perseus — Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus (https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0192 (opens in a new tab)); Britannica — Oedipus Rex (https://www.britannica.com/topic/Oedipus-Rex-play-by-Sophocles (opens in a new tab)). 1912-09-01 (cost, driver humanitarian-access): Modern lives print a 440s generalship as received, not as a staff diary — Britannica — Sophocles (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sophocles (opens in a new tab)); Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy (https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/cambridge-companion-to-greek-tragedy/ (opens in a new tab)). 1912-12-01 (cost, driver income-inequality): Twentieth-century school Loebs make Antigone and Oedipus credential Greek — Harvard / Loeb — Sophocles I (Ajax, Electra, Oedipus Tyrannus) (https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674995574 (opens in a new tab)); Britannica — Sophocles (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sophocles (opens in a new tab)). 1988-06-01 (cost, driver income-inequality): Mass tourism to listed Epidaurus captures rent from tragic landscape — UNESCO — Sanctuary of Asklepios at Epidaurus (https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/491/ (opens in a new tab)); Athens-Epidaurus Festival (https://www.greekfestival.gr/en/ (opens in a new tab)). 1912-02-01 (cost, driver infectious-disease-transmission): Loeb Oedipus Tyrannus opens on a civic plague as public teaching of disease-and-guilt — Perseus — Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus (https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0192 (opens in a new tab)); Britannica — Oedipus Rex (https://www.britannica.com/topic/Oedipus-Rex-play-by-Sophocles (opens in a new tab)). 1912-02-15 (cost, driver health-system-capacity): The same Loeb plague-plot prints guilt-as-cause as a rival to shared clinical explanation — Perseus — Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus (https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0192 (opens in a new tab)); Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Ancient Tragedy (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/tragedy-ancient/ (opens in a new tab)). 1912-11-01 (cost, driver personal-data-protection): Modern Loeb lives state that the ancient vita is late and thin — Harvard / Loeb — Sophocles I (Ajax, Electra, Oedipus Tyrannus) (https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674995574 (opens in a new tab)); Britannica — Sophocles (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sophocles (opens in a new tab)). 1955-01-01 (cost, driver institutional-corruption): The Athens-Epidaurus Festival treats Sophocles as a state-backed canon booking — Athens-Epidaurus Festival (https://www.greekfestival.gr/en/ (opens in a new tab)); Hellenic Ministry of Culture — English portal (https://www.culture.gov.gr/en/SitePages/default.aspx (opens in a new tab)). 1912-08-01 (cost, driver labour-market-tightness): Standard modern lives record that tragic production depended on wealthy choregoi — Harvard / Loeb — Sophocles I (Ajax, Electra, Oedipus Tyrannus) (https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674995574 (opens in a new tab)); Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy (https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/cambridge-companion-to-greek-tragedy/ (opens in a new tab)). 1912-06-15 (cost, driver forced-displacement-scale): Loeb Antigone prints exile and unburied return as a family displacement plot — Perseus — Sophocles, Antigone (https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0186 (opens in a new tab)); Britannica — Antigone (https://www.britannica.com/topic/Antigone-play-by-Sophocles (opens in a new tab)). 1912-06-20 (offset, driver democratic-resilience): Loeb Antigone prints a public argument that some unwritten things outrank a civic decree — Perseus — Sophocles, Antigone (https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0186 (opens in a new tab)); Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Ancient Tragedy (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/tragedy-ancient/ (opens in a new tab)). 1988-01-01 (offset, driver humanitarian-access): UNESCO lists Epidaurus, including the theatre still used for Sophocles — UNESCO — Sanctuary of Asklepios at Epidaurus (https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/491/ (opens in a new tab)); Athens-Epidaurus Festival (https://www.greekfestival.gr/en/ (opens in a new tab)). 1987-01-01 (offset, driver humanitarian-access): UNESCO lists the Acropolis, including the Theatre of Dionysus landscape — UNESCO — Acropolis, Athens (https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/404/ (opens in a new tab)); Hellenic Ministry of Culture — English portal (https://www.culture.gov.gr/en/SitePages/default.aspx (opens in a new tab)). 1883-01-01 (offset, driver social-cohesion): Cambridge Greek Play begins staging ancient drama, later including Sophocles, as a public university rite — Cambridge Greek Play (https://www.cambridgegreekplay.com/ (opens in a new tab)); Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Ancient Tragedy (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/tragedy-ancient/ (opens in a new tab)). 1955-06-01 (offset, driver industrial-policy-activism): The Athens-Epidaurus Festival makes ancient tragedy a recurring state-backed public performance — Athens-Epidaurus Festival (https://www.greekfestival.gr/en/ (opens in a new tab)); Hellenic Ministry of Culture — English portal (https://www.culture.gov.gr/en/SitePages/default.aspx (opens in a new tab)). 1982-01-01 (offset, driver social-cohesion): National Theatre and related civic stages restage Antigone and Oedipus as public contemporary performance — National Theatre — London (https://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/ (opens in a new tab)); Britannica — Antigone (https://www.britannica.com/topic/Antigone-play-by-Sophocles (opens in a new tab)).

Questions

Is Sophocles under sanctions?

Yes. 25 June 1912: Loeb Antigone prints civic embargo of a corpse as a visible pressure-tool (Perseus Digital Library / Tufts).

Does Sophocles face an ICC warrant or criminal charges?

1 April 1912: Loeb plays print civic religion — oracles, pollution, unburied dead — as the machine of the plot.

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