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1) Electra
Electra, Elektra, or The Electra (Ancient Greek: ΗΛΕΚΤΡΑ, Ēlektra) is a Greek tragedy by Sophocles. Its date is not known, but various stylistic similarities with the Philoctetes (409 BC) and the Oedipus at Colonus (401 BC) lead scholars to suppose that it was written towards the end of Sophocles' career.
Set in the city of Argos a few years after the Trojan War, the play tells
...2) Hecuba
3) Philoctetes
Philoctetes (Ancient Greek: Φιλοκτήτης, Philoktētēs) is a play by Sophocles. The play was written during the Peloponnesian War. It is one of the seven extant tragedies by Sophocles. It was first performed at the City Dionysia in 409 BC, where it won first prize. The story takes place during the Trojan War (after the majority of the events of the Iliad, but before the Trojan Horse). It describes the attempt
...4) Electra
5) Hippolytus
6) Rhesus
Rhesus (Greek: Ῥῆσος, Rhēsos) is an Athenian tragedy that belongs to the transmitted plays of Euripides, possibly written before 440 BCE. Its authorship has been disputed since antiquity. The conventional attribution to Euripides remains controversial.
In the middle of the night Trojan guards on the lookout for suspicious enemy activity sight bright fires in the Greek camp. They promptly inform Hector, who
...7) Andromache
Andromache (Ancient Greek: Ἀνδρομάχη) is an Athenian tragedy by Euripides. It dramatises Andromache's life as a slave, years after the events of the Trojan War, and her conflict with her master's new wife, Hermione. The date of its first performance is unknown. Some scholars place the date sometime between 428 and 425 BC.
Andromache has become a concubine to Achilles' son, Neoptolemus,
...8) Ion
Ion (Ancient Greek: Ἴων, Iōn) is an ancient Greek play by Euripides, thought to be written between 414 and 412 BCE. It follows the orphan Ion in the discovery of his origins.
Outside the temple of Apollo at Delphi, Hermes recalls the time when Creusa, the daughter of Erectheus, mated with Apollo in a cave at Long Rocks under the Acropolis. Apollo concealed her pregnancy from her father and Creusa
...9) Ajax
Sophocles' Ajax, or Aias (Ancient Greek: Αἴας, gen. Αἴαντος), is a Greek tragedy written in the 5th century BC.
The great warrior Achilles has been killed in battle. As the man who now can be considered the greatest Greek warrior, Ajax feels he should be given Achilles’ armor, but the two kings, Agamemnon and Menelaus, award it instead to Odysseus. Ajax becomes furious about this and decides to
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