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Sophocles

497/496 BC
Colonus |
Died | 406/405 BC (aged 90) |

1. Sophocles wrote more than one hundred plays, but only a handful of his works survived in their entirety.
2. Living to be nearly a century old, Sophocles was not only a writer. He also served in the military and the government.
3. Today referred to as Sophocles’ “Theban Cycle,” Oedipus the King, Antigone,and Oedipus at Colonus were not originally part of the same trilogy, though they do feature some of the same characters and story lines.
4. Aristotle, who wrote extensively on the nature of fine tragedy, praised Oedipus the Kinghighly. It remains the most famous of the surviving Greek tragedies.
5. Oedipus at Colonus was performed posthumously at the dramatic festival overseen by Sophocles’grandson, who may have completed the play. Sophocles was a very attractive man. As a young boy he performed in a play, naked, with shiny skin 
- Sophocles gave up acting because of his weak voice
- He was the most-awarded writer in the dramatic competitions of ancient Athens
- He had two sons, by two marriages - both became tragedians, but one of them, Iophon, brought a lawsuit against him, in his90s, saying he was doddered and should hand over his estate to his son. Sophocles read “Oedipus at Colonus” as his defense!
- He was very religious and he transformed his home in worship place for the healing god Asclepius, while a temple was being built. 
- When a gold crown was stolen from the Acropolis, it is said Heracles appeared to Sophocles, in a dream and told him where the object had beentaken. 
- It is said he died while reading aloud Antigone

Anaximander
 610 – c. 546 BC) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher who lived in Miletus, a city of Ionia; Milet in modern Turkey. He belonged to the Milesian school and learned the teachings of his masterThales. He succeeded Thales and became the second master of that school where he counted Anaximenes and arguably, Pythagorasamongsthis pupils.He is infamously known for writing a philosophical prose poem known as On Nature, of which only a fragment has been passed down. In that fragment Anaximander innovatively attributes the formation of a regulating system that governs our world, the cosmos. Furthermore, he put forth the radical idea that it is the indefinite (apeiron), in both the principle (archē) and element(stoicheion), from which are the things that are. In addition to such ingenuity, Anaximander also developed innovative ideas and theories in astronomy, biology, geography, and geometry.
Anaximenes (b. 585 BCE, d. 528 BCE) 

 ambiguous substance apeiron, respectively, Anaximenes asserted that air was this primary substance of which all other things are made. While the choice of air may seem arbitrary, hebased his conclusion on naturally observable phenomena in the process of rarefaction and condensation.[6] When air condenses it becomes visible, as mist and then rain and other forms of precipitation, and as the condensed air cools Anaximenes supposed that it went on to form earth and ultimately stones. In contrast, water evaporates into air which ignites and produces flame when furtherrarefied.[7] While other philosophers also recognized such transitions in states of matter, Anaximenes was the first to associate the quality pairs hot/dry and cold/wet with the density of a single material and add a quantitative dimension to the Milesian monistic system.[7][8]
aristotle(384 BC – 322 BC)
To Aristotle the scientist and philosopher may be attributed several innovations in the examination andanalysis of natural phenomena and human behavior. In the organization of his analysis, Aristotle divides the sciences into three classes:

(1) theoretical or speculative philosophy (theological, physical and metaphysical, and bio-psychological)
(2) practical philosophy (ethics and political science)
(3) productive philosophy (rhetoric, aesthetics, and literary criticism).
Productive art...