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malloryerik
on March 11, 2022
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Old Age and Creativity
Aeschylus wrote
The Oresteia
when he was 65. I believe Sophocles wrote
Oedipus the King
at age 68, and continued writing through
Electra
(probably) and
Philoctetes
(which took first prize in Athens) in his mid- to late-80s.
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