Sophocles

“ In his art, no less than in his age, Sophocles stands half way between the primitive faith and large utterance of Aeschylus, the "superman," and the lyric pathos, "the touch of all things human," of Euripides the Rationalist.
Of his private life, if we neglect later myth and gossip, there is little to tell. As Phrynicus wrote shortly after his death, "Thus happily ended a life without one mishap." ”

“ He was born at Colonus (495 B.C.) , that deme of Athens which he afterwards immortalized in what Cicero pronounced the sweetest of all lyricS, and his father Sophilus, a well-to-do Athenian (probably a master-cutler) gave him the best education of the day in music, dancing, and gymnastics. Endowed with every gift of nature, both physical and mental, from the very first, he carried all before him. ”