may commit suicide alone. Sophocles mentions a third stage, distinct from the other two, in his discussion of his development. The third stage pays more heed to diction. His characters spoke in a way that was more natural to them and more expressive of their individual character feelings. Legacy Sophocles (crater), a crater on Mercury. See also Theatre of ancient Greece Notes References Beer, Josh (2004). Sophocles and the Tragedy of Athenian Democracy. Greenwood Publishing. Freeman, Charles. (1999). The Greek Achievement: The Foundation of the Western World. New York: Viking Press. Hubbard, Thomas K. (2003). Homosexuality in Greece and Rome: A Sourcebook of Basic Documents. Johnson, Marguerite & Terry Ryan (2005). Sexuality in Greek and Roman Society and Literature: A Sourcebook. Routledge. Lloyd-Jones, Hugh & Wilson, Nigel Guy (ed.) (1990). Sophoclis: Fabulae. Oxford Classical Texts. Lloyd-Jones, Hugh (ed.) (1994). Sophocles: Ajax. Electra. Oedipus Tyrannus. Edited and translated by Hugh Lloyd-Jones, Loeb Classical Library No. 20. Lloyd-Jones, Hugh (ed.) (1994). Sophocles: Antigone. The Women of Trachis. Philoctetes. Oedipus at Colonus. Edited and translated by Hugh Lloyd-Jones, Loeb Classical Library No. 21. Lloyd-Jones, Hugh (ed.) (1996). Sophocles: Fragments. Edited and translated by Hugh Lloyd-Jones, Loeb Classical Library No. 483. Lucas, Donald William (1964). The Greek Tragic Poets. W.W. Norton & Co. Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vols. 5 & 6 translated by Paul Shorey. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1969. Schultz, Ferdinand (1835). De vita Sophoclis poetae commentatio. Phil. Diss., Berlin. Scullion, Scott (2002). Tragic dates, Classical Quarterly, new sequence 52, pp. 81–101. Sommerstein, Alan Herbert (2002). Greek Drama and Dramatists. Routledge. Sommerstein, Alan Herbert (2007). "General Introduction" pp. xi–xxix in Sommerstein, A.H., Fitzpatrick, D. and Tallboy, T. Sophocles: Selected Fragmentary Plays: Volume 1. Aris and Phillips. Sophocles. Sophocles I: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone. 2nd ed. Grene, David and Lattimore, Richard, eds. Chicago: University of Chicago, 1991. Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. "Macropaedia Knowledge In Depth." The New Encyclopædia Britannica Volume 20. Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 2005. 344–46. External links Works by Sophocles at the Perseus Digital Library (Greek and English) SORGLL: Sophocles, Electra 1126–1170; read by Rachel Kitzinger 400s BC deaths 490s BC births 5th-century BC Athenians 5th-century BC writers Ancient Greek dramatists and playwrights Ancient Greek poets Ancient LGBT people Greek gay writers Greek LGBT poets Greek LGBT dramatists and playwrights Tragic poets Gay poets Gay dramatists and playwrights