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Sophocles

Image of a classic Greek theater for staging dramatic plays of Sophocles

Mar 29, 2026

Greek Drama / Sophocles / Western Civilization / Why History Matters

We Have 6% of Sophocles. It Changed Everything.
He wrote 120 plays. We have seven. The rest - more than a century's worth of dramatic work from one of the greatest minds ancient Athens ever produced - is gone. Lost to fire, to time, to the indifference of centuries that didn't grasp what they were holding. What survived is roughly 6% of his total output. And that 6% alone shaped how Western civilization thinks about fate, free will, and what it means to be human for two and a half thousand years.

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