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.
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)
Suppliants (463BCE)
Agamemnon* (458BCE)
Libation Bearers* (458BCE)
Eumenides* (458BCE)
Prometheus Bound (a late
play
in Aeschylus' life)
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)
Electra (418-410BCE) Gillis,
Elizabeth
Oedipus Tyrannus* (430BCE)
(aka Oedipus the King)
Antigone* (442-441)
Trachiniae (430BCE) (aka Trachinian Women)
Philoctetes (409BCE)
Oedipus at Colonus* (401BCE)
Euripides (born
480?484?BCE,
died 406BCE):
Total productions: ca. 97
or 88???? or 92 (Enc. Britannica)
Extant:
Cyclops
Alcestis* (438BCE)
Medea (431BCE)
Children of Heracles (430BCE)
Hippolytus* (428BCE)
Andromache (426BCE)
Hecabe (aka Hecuba)
(425BCE)
Suppliants (423BCE)
Electra (418BCE)
Heracles (aka The Madness of Heracles) (416)
Trojan Women (415BCE)
Iphigenia at Taurus (413BCE)
Ion (413BCE)
Helen (412BCE)
Phoenician Women (409BCE)
Orestes (408BCE)
Bacchae* (406BCE)
Iphigenia at Aulis (406BCE)
Rhesus (perhaps not by
Euripides, date unknown)