I personally found the fact that Sophocles was imprisoned in his last days so that he could no longer teach, but he was surrounded by others who were imprisoned too, and he was able to teach them his thoughts and ways. Imprisoning him there seems very counter productive and ironic in several ways. His teaching was still passed on through others, but it was in a way that most would not expect it.
You'd figure that the ones who sent him to prison would'e thought to put him alone so that he couldn't influence others.
I commented on Wendy and Chris' posts.
I did think that it was a little strange as well but then I began to wonder that maybe they thought that the other men in the jail would cause harm to him or that they just did not care because none of the men were going to be set free.
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