Euripides

Euripides (c. 480–406 BCE) was one of the three great tragedians of classical Athens, along with Aeschylus and Sophocles.

Works

Tragedies of Euripides

• Alcestis (438 BCE, second prize)
• Medea (431 BCE, third prize)
• Children of Heracles (c. 430 BCE)
• Hippolytus (428 BCE, first prize)
• Andromache (c. 435 BCE)
• Hecuba (c. 424 BCE)
• Suppliant Women (c. 423 BCE)
• Electra (c. 420 BCE)
• Heracles (c. 416 BCE)
• Trojan Women (415 BCE, second prize)
• Iphigeneia in Tauris (c. 414 BCE)
• Ion (c. 413 BCE)
• Helen (412 BCE)
• Phoenician Women (c. 410 BCE, second prize)
• Orestes (408 BCE)
• Bacchae and Iphigeneia at Aulis (405 BCE, posthumous, first prize)

Fragmentary tragedies of Euripides

The following plays have come down to us today only in fragmentary form; some consist of only a handful of lines, but with some the fragments are extensive enough to allow tentative reconstruction: see Euripides: Selected Fragmentary Plays (Aris and Phillips 1995) ed. C. Collard, M.J. Cropp and K.H. Lee.

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• Telephus (438 BCE)
• Cretans (c. 435 BCE)
• Stheneboea (before 429 BCE)
• Bellerophon (c. 430 BC)
• Cresphontes (ca. 425 BCE)
• Erechtheus (422 BCE)
• Phaethon (c. 420 BCE)
• Wise Melanippe (c. 420 BCE)
• Alexandros (415 BCE)
• Palamedes (415 BCE)
• Sisyphus (415 BCE)
• Captive Melanippe (412 BCE)
• Andromeda (c. 410 BCE)
• Antiope (c. 410 BCE)
• Archelaus (c. 410 BCE)
• Hypsipyle (c. 410 BCE)
• Oedipus (c. 410 BCE)
• Philoctetes (c. 410 BCE)

Satyr play

• Cyclops (unknown)

Spurious plays

• Rhesus (mid 4th century BCE, probably not by Euripides, as maintained today by most scholars)
• Gabbos 27 (mid 4th century BCE)