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List of ancient Greek playwrights information


  • Thespis (c. 6th century BC):
  • Aeschylus (c. 525–456 BC):
    • The Persians (472 BC)
    • Seven Against Thebes (467 BC)
    • The Suppliants (463 BC)
    • The Oresteia (458 BC, a trilogy comprising Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers and The Eumenides.)
    • Prometheus Bound (authorship and date of performance is still in dispute)
  • Phrynichus (~511 BC):
    • The Fall of Miletus (c. 511 BC)
    • Phoenissae (c. 476 BC)
    • Danaides
    • Actaeon
    • Huzaifus
    • Alcestis
    • Tantalus
  • Achaeus of Eretria (484-c. 405 BC)
    • Adrastus
    • Linus
    • Cycnus
    • Eumenides
    • Philoctetes
    • Pirithous
    • Theseus
    • Œdipus
  • Achaeus of Syracuse (c. 356 BC)
  • Agathon (c. 448–400 BC)
    • Aerope
    • Alcmeon
    • Anthos or Antheus ("The Flower")
    • Mysoi ("Mysians")
    • Telephos ("Telephus")
    • Thyestes
  • Aphareus (4th century BC)
    • Asklepios**
    • Akhilleus**
    • Tantalos**
  • Sophocles (c. 495–406 BC):
    • Theban plays, or Oedipus cycle:
      • Antigone (c. 442 BC)
      • Oedipus Rex (c. 429 BC)
      • Oedipus at Colonus (401 BC, posthumous)
    • Ajax (unknown, presumed earlier in career)
    • The Trachiniae (unknown)
    • Electra (unknown, presumed later in career)
    • Philoctetes (409 BC)
  • Euripides (c. 480–406 BC):
    • Alcestis (438 BC)
    • Medea (431 BC)
    • The Heracleidae (Herakles Children) (c. 429 BC)
    • Hippolytus (428 BC)
    • Electra (c. 420 BC)
    • Sisyphos (415 BC)
    • Andromache (428–24 BC)
    • The Suppliants (422 BC)
    • Hecuba (424 BC)
    • Herakles (421–416 BC)
    • The Trojan Women (Troades) (415 BC)
    • Ion (414–412 BC)
    • Iphigenia in Tauris (414–412 BC)
    • Helen (412 BC)
    • The Phoenician Women (The Phoinissae) (411–409 BC)
    • Iphigenia At Aulis (Iphigenia ad Aulis) (410 BC)
    • Orestes (408 BC)
    • The Cyclops (c. 408 BC)
    • The Bacchae (405 BC, posthumous)
    • Rhesus (unknown)
  • Euphorion (5th century BC); possibly the author of Prometheus Bound, which is often attributed to his father Aeschylus
  • Phaesus (411–321 BC)
  • Philocles (c.5th century BC)

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