and that he never won less than second prize and came in first on at least eighteen occasions.
Besides his artistic achievements Sophocles held the post of treasurer (Hellenotamias) in either 443 or 442, and in the war to suppress a revolution in Samos from 441 to 439 he held the command as general along with Pericles as a reward, an ancient source records, for his Antigone. The reason given sounds hardly plausible, but since the dates, both absolutely and relatively, of Sophocles' plays are largely unknown, the story may count as possible evidence when the attempt to construct a chronological framework for his literary output is made.
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