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Born in 495 B.C. about a mile northwest of Athens, Sophocles was to become one of the great playwrights of the golden age. The son of s wealthy merchant, he would enjoy all the comforts of thriving Greek empire. He studied all of the arts. At the age of twenty-eight, his studies complete, he was ready to compete in the City Dionysia. In the first competition, Sophocles took first prize. Sophocles wrote many more plays, …

…that was built up. It started slow and slowly got more exciting to a point that Electra found her brother and he killed everyone, and that point was the climax of the play. Sophocles is the person that invented the third actor, but since I did not see the play, it was a little bit hard to imagine the importance and the great dramatic affects of a third actor. Overall “Electra was a fascinating play.