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ANCIENT GREEK THEATRE

Timeline of Ancient Greek Theatre

In bold plays that have won a prize in major tragic contests

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