Excerpt from The Ajax of Sophocles: Translated Into English Prose
Sophocles, son of Sophilus, was born at Colonus, a village close to Athens, in the year 495 B.C. He was thus thirty years younger than Aeschylus, who was born in 525 B.C., and fifteen years older than Euripides, whom he outlived by less than a year. The death of his younger rival gave the aged Sophocles an opportunity for one of the most graceful acts in literary history. When the news of Euripides' death, at the court of Archelaus of Macedonia, reached Athens, Sophocles, heedless of the contentions that were certain to arise over the grave of one so loved and so hated as Euripides, paid his funeral tribute to the genius of his rival by ordering that his own chorus should appear in mourning garb. The incident has been beautifully depicted by the great modern champion of Euripides, Robert Browning, in Aristophanes' Apology.
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