| DATE |
Theatrical
Events
|
Aeschylus |
Euripides |
Sophocles |
Aristophanes |
| around 600 |
Dithyranbous evolution by Arion of Methemna |
|
|
|
|
| before 570 |
Kleisthenes : the first tragic odes to Dionysus |
|
|
|
|
| 550 |
Thespis introduced the first actor |
|
|
|
|
| 534 |
Tragedy is included in the festival of the Great Dionysia in Athens by tyrant Peisistratos. First presentation by Thespis |
|
|
|
|
| around 500 |
Satyric drama is born. Pratinas participated in the tragic contest with a satyric drama |
|
|
|
|
| 525 |
|
Aeschylus born |
|
|
|
| 497 |
|
|
|
Sophocles born |
|
| 487 or 485 |
First comedy presented in Athens Dionysia |
|
|
|
|
| 480 |
|
|
Euripides born |
|
|
| 472 |
Second actor by Aeschylus |
Persians |
|
|
|
| 467 |
|
The seven against Thebes |
|
|
|
| 464 |
|
The Suppliants |
|
|
|
| 458 |
|
Agamemnon / The Libation - Bearers / Eumenides |
|
|
|
| 455 |
|
Aeschylus dies |
|
|
|
| 450 |
|
|
Rhesus |
|
|
| 442 |
Third actor and a chorus of 15 by Sophocles |
|
|
Antigone |
|
| 440 |
|
|
|
Ajax |
|
| 438 |
|
|
Alcestis |
|
|
| 431 |
|
Prometheus Bound |
Medea |
|
|
| 430 |
|
|
Heracles' children |
Women of Trachis |
|
| 428 |
|
|
Phaedra |
|
|
| 424 |
|
|
|
|
The Knights |
| 422 |
|
|
|
|
The Wasps |
| 421 |
|
|
|
|
Peace |
| 420 |
|
|
Helectra |
|
|
| 419 |
|
|
|
|
The Clouds |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
| 415 |
|
|
The Trojan Women |
|
|
| 414 |
|
|
|
|
The Birds |
| 413 |
|
|
Iphigenia in Tauris |
|
|
| 411 |
|
|
|
|
Thesmophoriazoussae |
| 410 |
|
|
The Bacchae |
Electra |
|
| 409 |
|
|
|
Philoctetes |
|
| 407 |
|
|
|
Oedipus Rex |
|
| 406 |
|
|
Euripides dies |
|
|
| 405 |
|
|
|
Oedipus at Colonus - Sophocles dies |
The Frogs |
| 390 |
|
|
|
|
Ecclessiazoussae |
| 385 |
|
|
|
|
Aristophanes dies |
| 380 |
|
|
|
|
Plutus |