List of ancient Greek playwrights
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)