Antigone (Sophocles play)
Antigone ( ; ) is a tragedy by Sophocles written in or before 441 BC.
Sophocles
Only two of the seven surviving plays can be dated securely: "Philoctetes" (409 BC) and "Oedipus at Colonus" (401 BC, staged after Sophocles' death by his grandson). Of the others, "Electra" shows stylistic similarities to these two plays, which suggests that it was probably written in the latter part of his career. "Ajax", "Antigone" and "The Trachiniae" are generally thought to be among his early works, again based on stylistic elements, with "Oedipus Rex" coming in Sophocles' middle period. Most of Sophocles' plays show an undercurrent of early fatalism and the beginnings of Socratic logic as a mainstay for the long tradition of Greek tragedy.