Sophocles' Achievements

        Throughout Sophocles' lifetime, he accomplished awfully a lot. Ancient people gave him a large amount of credit for major and minor dramatic changes. One example of his many brilliant ideas of the time were scene paintings which helped establish the atmosphere of the play. This was very helpful because it gave the audience a better mental picture of what the playwright was 
envisioning. 

        One of Sophocles' biggest contributions he made to drama was introducing a third actor to plays. Formerly, it was acceptable for two actors to play other roles during a play. The introduction of a third actor allowed the playwright to create an increase in characters and widen the interactions between them. And so the plot and situations could then be more structured. Lastly, the chorus' importance was reduced majorly because of this change in the number of characters in a play.