Greek Tragedies

What follows is a list of all of the extant Greek tragedies. Also extant are fragments of many more tragedies as well as author names and titles for many more tragedies.

First Day Assignment : choose, go out and find, and then read one of the plays listed below (but NOT one of the titles followed by an asterisk*).
Aug. 31st: You must have located a copy of the play and started reading it. Try the library, online, or a good bookstore.
Sept. 5th: You must be prepared to tell the class the plot of the play. I.e. you must have read it through at least once and be prepared to summarize the plot for us.
Your first document will be about the play you choose.

Aeschylus (born 525/524BCE, died 456/455):
Total productions: 76, 97 or ca. 90 or "over 80," because "80 titles are known" (Enc. Britannica):
Extant:
Persians* (472BCE)
Seven Against Thebes (467BCE) Christine DiMauro's Document
Suppliants (463BCE) Lauren Dolloff's Document
Agamemnon* (458BCE)
Libation Bearers* (458BCE)
Eumenides* (458BCE)
Prometheus Bound (a late play in Aeschylus' life) Bayley Greer's Document

Sophocles (born 497/496/495BCE, died 406BCE):
Total productions: ca. 180, "more than 120", or 123 (Enc. Britannica, whose source is the Suda)?????
Extant:
Ajax (441BCE) Tavid Bingham's Document
Electra (418-410BCE) Gillis, Elizabeth
Oedipus Tyrannus* (430BCE) (aka Oedipus the King)
Antigone* (442-441)
Trachiniae (430BCE) (aka Trachinian Women) Alyssa McKay's Document
Philoctetes (409BCE) Ben Ifshin's Document
Oedipus at Colonus* (401BCE)

Euripides (born 480?484?BCE, died 406BCE):
Total productions: ca. 97 or 88???? or 92 (Enc. Britannica)
Extant:
Cyclops Carly Symington's Document
Ryan Betcher's document
Alcestis* (438BCE)
Medea (431BCE) Henry, Alexandra
Children of Heracles (430BCE) Abbey Miller's Document
Hippolytus* (428BCE)
Andromache (426BCE) Caitlin Mulvey's Document
Hecabe (aka Hecuba) (425BCE) Meagan Oakes' Document
Suppliants (423BCE) Kyle Rhodes' Document
Electra (418BCE) Shea, Oliver
Heracles (aka The Madness of Heracles) (416) Ben Silverman
Trojan Women (415BCE) Elizabeth Renda's Web-Site
Iphigenia at Taurus (413BCE) Julia Smith's web site
Ion (413BCE) Steph Steeves' Document
Helen (412BCE) Laura Parker's document
Phoenician Women (409BCE)
Orestes (408BCE) Elizabeth Bruner's Document
Bacchae* (406BCE)
Iphigenia at Aulis (406BCE)
Rhesus (perhaps not by Euripides, date unknown)