Sophocles of Kolōnos (c. 496 - c. 406 BCE) was one of the most famous and celebrated writers of tragedy plays in ancient Greece and his surviving works, written throughout the 5th century BCE, include such classics as Oedipus Rex, Antigone, and Women of Trachis., Sophocles was the best-loved of the three great Ancient tragedieans, both as a person and as a playwright. including Ajax, Antigone, Electra, Oedipus at Colonus, Oedipus Rex, Philoctetes, Women of Trachis etc., In Antigone, Sophocles writes, “Nothing vast enters the life of mortals without a curse.” Sophocles lived a life of wealth and renown as the most successful of the three great Greek tragedians, but was cursed by an ambivalence to it. Who Was Sophocles? Sophocles was born in 497 BCE in a small village just outside of Athens named Colonus., Sophocles, a Latinized Greek name meaning "famed for wisdom," originates from sophos ("wise") + -klēs ("fame"), linked to PIE root *kleu- ("to hear")., Sophocles definition: 495?–406? b.c., Greek dramatist.. See examples of SOPHOCLES used in a sentence., Sophocles (Sophokles) was the second of the three great ancient Greek tragedians (after Aeschylus and before Euripides) whose work has survived. Only seven of his 123 plays have survived in a complete form but, for almost fifty years, he was the most-awarded playwright in the Dionysia dramatic competitions of the city-state of Athens..