Plays - Specific Plays by Ancient Playwrights
Greek Theater Study Guide
The origins of Greek drama are debated and may never be known for sure, but it is thought that they developed out of a form of ritual worship that involved a chorus of men, possibly dressed as horses, connected with the vegetation god Dionysus.
Plays by Euripides
Online translations into English of the Greek tragedies written by Euripides: Alcestis, Andromache, The Bacchantes, The Cyclops, Electra, Hecuba, Helen, The Heracleidae, Heracles, Hippolytus, Ion, Iphigenia At Aulis, Iphigenia in Tauris, Medea, Orestes, The Phoenissae, Rhesus, The Suppliants, and The Trojan Women.
Plays by Sophocles
Online translations into English of Sophocles' tragedies: Ajax, Antigone, Electra, Oedipus at Colonus, Oedipus the King, Philoctetes and The Trachiniae.
Plautus Comedies
1916 Project Gutenberg translation of the following comedies by Plautus: Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Twe Bacchises, and The Captives. Also see The Mostellaria and The Captiva.