Sophocles later served as stratēgos perhaps twice again. In 440 he was elected one of the 10 stratēgoi (high executive officials who commanded the armed forces) as a junior colleague of Pericles. In 442 he served as one of the treasurers responsible for receiving and managing tribute money from Athens’s subject-allies in the Delian League. The relatively meagre information about Sophocles’ civic life suggests that he was a popular favourite who participated actively in his community and exercised outstanding artistic talents. Because of his beauty of physique, his athletic prowess, and his skill in music, he was chosen in 480, when he was 16, to lead the paean (choral chant to a god) celebrating the decisive Greek sea victory over the Persians at the Battle of Salamis. Sophocles himself received a good education. He was born at Colonus, a village outside the walls of Athens, where his father, Sophillus, was a wealthy manufacturer of armour. Sophocles was the younger contemporary of Aeschylus and the older contemporary of Euripides. The best known of his 123 dramas is Oedipus the King. 496 bce, Colonus, near Athens -died 406, Athens), with Aeschylus and Euripides, one of classical Athens’s three great tragic playwrights.
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