Portrait of the Greek tragedian Sophocles

Copy in plaster acquired in 1898 made on a Roman antique sculpture found in the remains of the theatre in Terracina in Italy, which itself was a copy of a lost, Greek original dating around 330 BCE, a hundred years after the tragedies of Sophocles were put on stage for the first time. The tragedies of Sophocles are well known today. King Oedipus has played a major role to psychiatry as the basic myth about the feeling of guilt inside us all, especially in the unconscious dreams of boys who desire their mother and want to kill their father to get her.