For example, his election to Strategos in 440 BC was almost certainly due to the notoriety surrounding the great success of Antigone the previous year. (Sophocles, Nardo 22) Sophocles learned tragedy under Aeschylus, where Aeschylus taught him the basics of writing great tragedies. He defeated Aeschylus at the Feast of Dionysus in 468 BC, which was Sophocles' first victory in the competition. “The playwright may have outlived almost all his relatives and friends, for he lived at least ninety-one years. Yet even in his later years his creative talent and output were not diminished at all, for his last play, Oedipus at Colonus, composed in 406 BC, was one of his greatest. (Sophocles, Nardo