Some
Useful Information about the Great Tragedians
dates
marked with an asterisk (*) are known and secure
Aeschylus (ca.
525/524 - 456/455 BCE)
70-90 total plays (including satyr dramas)
First competition:
500/499-497/496
First victory: *484, out of ca. 13 total firsts.
*Persians,
472
*Seven against Thebes, 467
Suppliant Women, ca. 463
*Oresteia Trilogy (Agamemnon, Libation Bearers, Eumenides),
458
?Prometheus Bound, 450-425
Sophocles (*495/4
- *406/5 BCE)
120+ total plays (including satyr dramas)
First competition:
*468 with his first play, Triptolemus.
Won 18-24 total firsts.
Ajax,
450-430
Women of Trachis, 450-430
Antigone, ca. 442
Oedipus the King, 429-425?
Electra, 420-410
*Philoctetes, 409 (first prize)
*Oedipus at Colonus, 401 (posthumous)
Euripides (ca.
484 - *406 BCE)
90+ total plays (including satyr dramas)
First competition:
*455 (third).
First victory: *442, out of five total firsts.
*Alcestis
438 (second prize)
*Medea 431 (third prize)
Children of Heracles, ca. 430
*Hippolytus, 428 (first prize)
Andromache, ca. 425
Hecuba, ca. 424
Suppliant Women, ca. 423
Electra, 420-416
Heracles, 416-4
*Trojan Women, 415 (second prize)
Iphigenia among the Taurians, ca. 414
Ion, 413-10
*Helen, 412
*Phoenician Women, 410
*Orestes, 408
*Bacchae and Iphigenia in Aulis, after 406 (posthumous first
prize)
Cyclops (date unknown, possibly 410-08).
The Rhesus transmitted under Euripides' name is probably a fourth-century play by a now nameless poet.