Tragedies of Sophocles (Plumptre 1878)/Tables

Layout 2

 

TABLE OF GREEK PROPER NAMES

DIFFERING FROM THOSE IN COMMON USE.

---

Aias		Ajax.
Aidoneus⁠		Pluto.
Aphrodite		Venus.
Ares		Mars.
Artemis		Diana.
Asclepios		Æsculapius.
Athena		Minerva.
Deo	$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$	Ceres.
Demeter
Dionysos		Bacchus.
Enyalios		Mars (?)
Erinnyes	$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$	Furies.
Eumenides
Hades		The world of death.
Hephaestos		Vulcan.
Hera		Juno.
Heracles		Hercules.
Hermes		Mercury.
Kronos		Saturn.
Loxias		Apollo.
Odysseus		Ulysses.
Persephassa	$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$	Proserpine.
Persephone
Poseidon	$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$	Neptune.
Poseidaon
Zeus		Jupiter, Jove.

 

 

CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE

TO ILLUSTRATE THE LIFE OF SOPHOCLES.^[1]

---

B.C.

525. Birth of Æschylos.

510. Expulsion of the Peisistratidæ. Democratic constitution of Cleisthenes.

500. Birth of Anaxagoras.

499. Æschylos exhibits his first tragedy.

497. Death of Pythagoras (?)

495. Birth of Sophocles.

490. Battle of Marathon.

485. Xerxes succeeds Dareios.

484. Birth of Herodotos. Æschylos gains the prize in tragedy.

480. Athens taken by Xerxes. Battle of Salamis. Sophocles leads the chorus of victory. Birth of Euripides.

479. Athens taken by Mardonios.

477. Commencement of Athenian Supremacy.

476. Bones of Theseus discovered in Skyros.

472. The Persæ of Æschylos.

471. Birth of Thucydides.

468. Sophocles gains his first victory in tragedy. The Triptolemos. Birth of Socrates.

467. Death of Simonides.

466. Battle of Eurymedon.

461. Ostracism of Kimon. Ascendancy of Pericles. The Oresteian Trilogy of Æschylos.

456. Death of Æschylos. Herodotos recites his history at the Olympian Games (?)

455. Euripides appears as a writer of tragedies.

450. Anaxagoras retires from Athens after a residence of thirty years.

448. Sacred war between Delphians and Phocians.

441. Euripides gains the first prize.

440. Sophocles exhibits the Antigone, and is made one of the ten Athenian generals in the war with Samos. Meets Herodotos at Samos.

439. Sophocles returns to Athens.

432. Prosecution of Anaxagoras, Aspasia, and Pheidias.

431. Commencement of the Peloponnesian War.

430. Plague at Athens. Œdipus the King (?)⁠ Œdipus at Colonos (?)

429. Birth of Plato.

428. Death of Anaxagoras.

427. Ascendancy of Cleon. Aristophanes gains his first prize for comedy.

424. The Knights of Aristophanes.

423. The Clouds of Aristophanes.

421. Peace of Nikias.

419. The Peace of Aristophanes.

416. Tragic prize gained by Agathon.

415. Tragic prize gained by Archippos. Sicilian Expedition. Mutilation of the Hermæ busts. Banishment of Alkibiades.

413. Destruction of Athenian army and fleet in Sicily. Sophocles appointed as member of constituent committee—(Πρόβουλοι.)

411. Revolution at Athens. Council of the Four Hundred. Sophocles assents. Recall of Alkibiades.

409. The Philoctetes of Sophocles.

406. Battle of Arginusæ. Death of Euripides. Death of Sophocles.

401. The Œdipus at Colonos reproduced (?) by the younger Sophocles.

 

---

1. Taken chiefly from Dr Smith's Dictionary of Classical Biography.