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Comedies and Tragedies Production Dates

Dates of the Tragedies and Comedies by the Great Greek Dramatists

The following table shows the approximate production dates when known of Greek tragedy, by Aeschylus, Euripides, and Sophocles, and Greek comedy, by Aristophanes. The purpose of this table is to show how the lives and productions of the playwrights overlapped. It's worth noting the Athenians surrendered and the Peloponnesian War ended in 404.

Aeschylus	The Persians	472 B.C.
Aeschylus	The Seven Against Thebes	468 or 467 B.C.
Aeschylus	The Suppliants	463 B.C.
Aeschylus	Oresteia	458 B.C.
Sophocles	Ajax	451? B.C.
Sophocles	Antigone	441 B.C.
Euripides	Alcestis	438 B.C.
Euripides	The Cyclops	438 B.C.
Euripides	Medea	431 B.C.
Euripides	Hippolytus	428 B.C.
Euripides	The Heracleidae	ca. 428 B.C.
Euripides	Andromanche	ca. 427 B.C.
Euripides	Hecuba	425 B.C.
Aristophanes	The Acharnians	425 B.C.
Aristophanes	The Knights	424 B.C.
Aristophanes	The Clouds	423 B.C.
Aristophanes	The Wasps	422 B.C.
Euripides	Heracles	ca. 422 B.C.
Aristophanes	Peace	421 B.C.
Euripides	The Suppliants	421 B.C.
Euripides	Ion	ca. 417 B.C.
Euripides	The Trojan Women	415 B.C.
Aristophanes	The Birds	414 B.C.
Euripides	Iphigenia in Tauris	ca. 413 B.C.
Euripides	Electra	413 B.C.
Euripides	Helena	412 B.C.
Aristophanes	Thesmophoriazusae	411 B.C.
Aristophanes	Lysistrata	411 B.C.
Euripides	The Phoenician Women	ca. 410 B.C.
Sophocles	Philoctetes	409 B.C.
Sophocles	The Trachiniae	409 B.C.
Sophocles	Electra	409 B.C.
Sophocles	Oedipus Rex	409 B.C.
Euripides	Orestes	408 B.C.
Aristophanes	The Frogs	405 B.C.
Euripides	The Bacchae	405 B.C.
Euripides	Iphigenia in Aulis	405 B.C.
Sophocles	Oedipus at Colonus	produced 401 B.C.
Aristophanes	Plutus	388 B.C.
Aristophanes	The Ecclesiazusae	393 or 391 B.C.