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Ancient Greek drama

General

Drama & Theatre

• History of the Literature of Ancient Greece (chs. XXI-XXIX), by K. O. Müller, translated by George Cornewall Lewis, 1847.
• A History of Ancient Greek Literature (chs. IX-XIII), by Gilbert Murray, 1901.
• "Drama II. Greek Tragedy", by Charles Burton Gulick, pp. 363–379 in The Harvard Classics, vol. 51, 1914.
• "Drama/7," by Adolphus William Ward in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (§7. Greek Drama).
• "Greek Literature," by James David Bourchier in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911).
• "Theatre," by James Williams in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911).

Synopses & Literary Conspectus

• Aeschylus, by Reginald Copleston, 1870.
• Aristophanes, by William Lucas Collins, 1872.
• Euripides, by William Bodham Donne, 1872.
• Euripides and His Age, by Gilbert Murray, 1913.
• Sophocles, by Clifton Wilbraham Collins, 1871.

Criticism & Analysis

• "Aristophanes as a Student of Society" by Arthur Fairbanks, The American Journal of Sociology 8(5): 655–666, 1903.
• Euripides, by John Pentland Mahaffy, 1879.
• Euripides the Rationalist, by Arthur Woollgar Verrall, 1895.
• "The Life and Writings of Sophocles", pages xxi–xcv in The Tragedies of Sophocles by E. H. Plumptre, 1878.
• "Measuring Euripides", by Lynn Thorndike, 1916.
• "On the Irony of Sophocles", by Connop Thirlwall, Philological Museum, 2: 483–537, 1833.
• "Paiderastia upon the Attic stage", Chapter XII of A Problem in Greek Ethics, by John Addington Symonds, 1908.
• Sophocles, by Lewis Campbell, 1879.

Language & Prosody

• "The Suffix -μα in Aristophanes", by Charles W. Peppler, Am. Journ. of Phil. 37(4): 459–465, 1916.
• "The Termination -κός, as used by Aristophanes for Comic Effect", by Charles W. Peppler, Am. Jour. of Phil. 31(4): 428–444, 1910.
• The Vocabulary of Menander, by Donald Blythe Durham, 1913.

Theory & Structure

• Aristotle's Poetics

  Ingram Bywater translation

  Samuel Henry Butcher translation

• “Suidas on the Change Ascribed to Sophocles in Regard to Trilogies” in Essays and Addresses by Richard Claverhouse Jebb, 1907.
• "Theory of Greek Tragedy" by Thomas De Quincey, 1840

Tragedies

Performance of Oedipus Rex

Aeschylus
	Play	Translations
	Agamemnon[1]		Morshead (1881, 1889 )		Swanwick (1886)	Browning (1877) Murray (1920)
	Choephori[1]		Morshead (1881, 1889 )		Swanwick (1886)	Murray (1923)
	Eumenides[1] "Furies"		Morshead (1881, 1889 )		Swanwick (1886)	Murray (1925)
	The Persians	Cookson (1922);	Morshead (1908)	Potter (1777);	Swanwick (1886)
	Prometheus Bound	Cookson (1922);	Morshead (1908)		Swanwick (1886);	Bevan (1902) Browning (1833, 1851 ) Thoreau (1843) Webster (1866)
	Seven against Thebes	Cookson (1922);	Morshead (1908)		Swanwick (1886)
	The Suppliants	Cookson (1922);	Morshead (1883 , 1908)		Swanwick (1886)
	Part of The Oresteia.

• Compilations:

  The Dramas of Aeschylus, 4th ed., by Anna Swanwick

  Four Plays of Aeschylus, by G. M. Cookson

  Four Plays of Aeschylus, by E. D. A. Morshead

  The House of Atreus, 2nd ed., by E. D. A. Morshead

Euripides
	Play	Translations
	Alcestis		Coleridge (1891);	Murray (1915);	A. Way (1894)
	Andromache				A. Way (1896)
	Bacchae		Coleridge (1891)		A. Way (1898)
	The Cyclops[1]		Coleridge (1891)			Shelley (1824, 1914)
	Electra			Murray (1905);	A. Way (1896)
	Hecuba				A. Way (1894)
	Helen		Coleridge (1891)
	Heracleidae		Coleridge (1891)
	Heracles
	Hippolytus		Coleridge (1891)
	Ion		Coleridge (1891)
	Iphigenia in Aulis	Buckley (1892)
	Iphigenia in Tauris				A. Way (1898)
	Medea		Coleridge (1891)		A. Way (1894);	Webster (1868)
	Orestes				A. Way (1898)
	Phoenician Women				A. Way (1898)
	Rhesus[2]		Coleridge (1891)		A. Way (1898)
	The Suppliants		Coleridge (1891)
	Trojan Women		Coleridge (1891);	Murray (1905)
	Technically, a satyr play, but staged alongside tragedies. The authorship of this play is disputed.

• Compilations:

  The Tragedies of Euripides, trans. by Arthur S. Way (1894–1898)

  (transcription volumes: Volume I., Volume II., Volume III.)

  The Plays of Euripides trans. by Edward P. Coleridge (1891; reprinted 1910, 1913)

  (transcription volumes: Volume I., Volume II.)

Sophocles
	Play	Translations
	Ajax	Campbell (1906)	Jebb (1917)	Plumptre (1878)		Trevelyan (1919)
	Antigone[1]	Campbell (1906)	Jebb (1917)	Plumptre (1878)		Harry (1911)
	Electra	Campbell (1906)	Jebb (1917)	Plumptre (1878)	Storr (1919)
	Oedipus at Colonus[1]	Campbell (1906)	Jebb (1917)	Plumptre (1878)	Storr (1912)
	Oedipus Rex[1]	Campbell (1906)	Jebb (1917)	Plumptre (1878)		Murray (1911) Yeats (1928)
	Philoctetes	Campbell (1906)	Jebb (1917)	Plumptre (1878)
	Trachiniae	Campbell (1906)	Jebb (1917)	Plumptre (1878)
	One of the three "Theban" plays.

• Compilations:

  Sophocles, the Seven Plays in English verse by Lewis Campbell

  The Tragedies of Sophocles, translated into English prose by Richard Claverhouse Jebb

  The Tragedies of Sophocles by E. H. Plumptre

  Sophocles, with an English translation by Francis Storr

• Fragments:

  "Fragments", translated by E. H. Plumptre (1878)

Comedies

Performance of Lysistrata

Aristophanes
	Play	Translations
	The Acharnians	Athenian Soc. (1912)		Frere (1909)
	Birds	Athenian Soc. (1912)		Frere (1909)
	Clouds	Athenian Soc. (1912)	Hickie (1853)
	Ecclesiazusae[1]	Athenian Soc. (1912)	Hickie (1853)
	Frogs	Athenian Soc. (1912)			Murray (1912)
	Knights	Athenian Soc. (1912)		Frere (1909)
	Lysistrata	Athenian Soc. (1912)
	Peace	Athenian Soc. (1912)
	Plutus "Wealth"	Athenian Soc. (1912)
	Thesmophoriazusae[2]	Athenian Soc. (1912)
	Wasps	Athenian Soc. (1912)
	Or, the "Assemblywomen" Or, the "Festival Women"

• Compliations:

  The Acharnians, and two other Plays of Aristophanes by John Hookham Frere, [1839] 1909.

  The Comedies of Aristophanes by William James Hickie, 1853

  Aristophanes: The Eleven Comedies, anonymously published by the Athenian Society, 1912.

Menander

• Dyskolos "The Misanthrope"

Dramatists

Acestor

• “Acestor”, by Robert Whiston in Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1870.

Achaeus

• “Achaeus”, by Robert Whiston in Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1870.

Aeantides

• “Aeantides”, in Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1870.

Aeschylus

Aeschylus

• Aeschylus, by Reginald Copleston, 1870.
• "Æschylus", Chapter XXIII. in History of the Literature of Ancient Greece, to the period of Isocrates, by K. O. Müller, translated by George Cornewall Lewis, 1847.
• "Æschylus", Chapter X. in A History of Ancient Greek Literature by Gilbert Murray, 1901.
• “Aeschylus”, by Robert Whiston in Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1870.
• "Aeschylus," by Arthur Sidgwick in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911).
• "Æschylus," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
• "Aeschylus", by John Henry Wright, in Masterpieces of Greek Literature (1902)
• "Aeschylus," in Collier's New Encyclopedia, New York: P. F. Collier & Son Co. (1921)
• "Aeschylus," in The Nuttall Encyclopædia, (ed.) by James Wood, London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd. (1907)
• "Æschylus," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)

Agathon

• "Agathon," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911).
• “Agathon”, by Robert Whiston in Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1870.
• "Agathon," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)

Alcaeus

• “Alcaeus”, by Philip Smith in Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1870.

Alcimenes

• “Alcimenes”, by Charles Peter Mason in Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1870.

Alexander Aetolus

• "Alexander Aetolus," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911).
• “Alexander Aetolus”, by Leonhard Schmitz in Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1870.
• "Alexander Ætolus," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)

Alexander of Athens

• “Alexander”, by Charles Peter Mason in Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1870.

Alexis

• "Alexis," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911).
• “Alexis”, by Charles Peter Mason in Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1870.
• "Alexis (dramatist)," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)

Ameipsias

• “Ameipsias”, by Philip Smith in Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1870.

Amphis

• “Amphis”, by Philip Smith in Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1870.

Anaxandrides

• “Anaxandrides”, by Philip Smith in Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1870.

Anaxilas

• “Anaxilas”, by Philip Smith in Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1870.

Anaxippus

• “Anaxippus”, by Philip Smith in Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1870.

Antidotus

• “Antidotus”, by Philip Smith in Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1870.

Antiphanes

• "Antiphanes," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911).
• “Antiphanes”, by Philip Smith in Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1870.
• "Antiphanes," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)

Aphareus

• “Aphareus”, by Leonhard Schmitz in Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1870.

Apollodorus of Carystus

• “Apollodorus”, by Leonhard Schmitz in Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1870. (§6)

Araros

• “Araros”, by Philip Smith in Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1870.

Archedicus

• “Archedicus”, by Philip Smith in Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1870.

Archippus

• “Archippus”, by Philip Smith in Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1870.

Aristarchus of Tegea

• “Aristarchus”, by Philip Smith in Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1870.

Aristophanes

Aristophanes

• Aristophanes, by William Lucas Collins, 1872.
• "Comedy: Aristophanes", Chapter XIII. in A History of Ancient Greek Literature by Gilbert Murray, 1901.
• “Aristophanes”, by George Edward Lynch Cotton in Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1870.
• "Aristophanes," by Richard Claverhouse Jebb in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911).
• "Aristophanes," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
• "Aristophanes", by John Henry Wright, in Masterpieces of Greek Literature (1902)
• "Aristophanes," in Collier's New Encyclopedia, New York: P. F. Collier & Son Co. (1921)
• "Aristophanes," in The Nuttall Encyclopædia, (ed.) by James Wood, London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd. (1907)
• "Aristophanes," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)
• "Aristophanes as a Student of Society" by Arthur Fairbanks, The American Journal of Sociology 8(5): 655–666, 1903.
• "The Termination -κός, as used by Aristophanes for Comic Effect", by Charles W. Peppler, American Journal of Philology 31(4): 428–444, 1910.
• "The Suffix -μα in Aristophanes", by Charles W. Peppler, American Journal of Philology 37(4): 459–465, 1916.

Aristophon

Augeas

Autocrates

Axionicus

Chionides

• "Chionides," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)

Choerilus

• "Choerilus," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911), (1).
• "Chœrilus," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)

Crates

• "Crates (actor)," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911).
• "Crates (poet)," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)

Cratinus

• "Cratinus," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911).
• "Cratinus," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
• "Cratinus," in The Nuttall Encyclopædia, (ed.) by James Wood, London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd. (1907)

Critias

• "Critias," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911).
• "Critias," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)

Eubulus

• "Eubulus (poet)," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911).
• "Eubulus (poet)," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)

Eupolis

• "Eupolis," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911).
• "Eupolis," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)

Euripides

Euripides

• Euripides, by William Bodham Donne, 1872.
• Euripides, by John Pentland Mahaffy, 1879.
• Euripides and His Age by Gilbert Murray, 1913.
• "Euripides", Chapter XII. in A History of Ancient Greek Literature by Gilbert Murray, 1901.
• "Euripides and His Work", in Vol. II of The Tragedies of Euripides by Arthur S. Way, 1896.
• Euripides the Rationalist by Arthur Woollgar Verrall, 1895.
• "Measuring Euripides", by Lynn Thorndike, 1916.
• “Euripides”, by Edward Elder in Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1870.
• "Euripides," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911).
• "Euripides," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
• "Euripides", by John Henry Wright, in Masterpieces of Greek Literature (1902)
• "Euripides," in Collier's New Encyclopedia, New York: P. F. Collier & Son Co. (1921)
• "Euripides," in The Nuttall Encyclopædia, (ed.) by James Wood, London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd. (1907)
• "Euripides," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)

Ion of Chios

• "Ion," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911).
• "Ion of Chios," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)

Iophon

• "Iophon," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911).
• "Iophon," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)

Lycophron

• "Lycophron," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911).
• "Lycophron," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)

Menander

Menander

• "Menander", Chapter II. in Plautus and Terence by William Lucas Collins, 1873.
• The Vocabulary of Menander by Donald Blythe Durham, 1913.
• “Menander of Athens”, by Philip Smith in Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1870.
• "Menander (dramatist)," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911).
• "Menander (poet)," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
• "Menander," in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920).
• "Menander," in Collier's New Encyclopedia, New York: P. F. Collier & Son Co. (1921)
• "Menander," in The Nuttall Encyclopædia, (ed.) by James Wood, London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd. (1907)

Pherecrates

• "Pherecrates," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911).
• "Pherecrates," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)

Philemon

• "Philemon," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911).
• "Philemon (poet)," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)

Phrynichus (comicus)

• "Phrynichus," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911), (2).

Phrynichus (tragicus)

• "Phrynichus," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911), (1).
• "Phrynichus," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)

Posidippus

• "Posidippus," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911).
• "Posidippus," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)

Pratinas

• "Pratinas," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911).
• "Pratinas," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)

Sophilus

• “Sophilus”, by Philip Smith in Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1870.

Sophocles

Sophocles

• Sophocles, by Clifton Wilbraham Collins, 1871.
• Sophocles, by Lewis Campbell, 1879.
• "The Life and Writings of Sophocles", pages xxi–xcv in The Tragedies of Sophocles by E. H. Plumptre, 1878.
• "Sophocles", Chapter XI. in A History of Ancient Greek Literature by Gilbert Murray, 1901.
• “Sophocles”, by Philip Smith in Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1870.
• "Sophocles," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911).
• "Sophocles," by Paul Shorey in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
• "Sophocles", by John Henry Wright, in Masterpieces of Greek Literature (1902)
• "Sophocles," in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
• "Sophocles," in Collier's New Encyclopedia, New York: P. F. Collier & Son Co. (1921)
• "Sophocles," in The Nuttall Encyclopædia, (ed.) by James Wood, London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd. (1907)
• "Sophocles," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)
• “On the Irony of Sophocles” by Connop Thirlwall, 1833.
• “The Genius of Sophocles” and “Suidas on the Change Ascribed to Sophocles in Regard to Trilogies” in Essays and Addresses by Richard Claverhouse Jebb, 1907.

Sophron

• "Sophron," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911).
• "Sophron of Syracuse," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)

Thespis

• "Thespis," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911).
• "Thespis," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)

Classicists

Gilbert Murray

Scholars

• Edwyn Robert Bevan (1870–1943), British classicist.
• Collins, William Lucas (1815–1887), British author of, and editor for, many volumes in the Ancient Classics for English Readers.
• Conington, John (1825–1869), English classical scholar.
• Donaldson, John William (1811–1861), British philologist and scholar of Greek drama.
• Donne, William Bodham (1807–1882), English classical scholar and theatre critic.
• Haigh, Arthur Elam (1855–1905), British scholar of Greek drama.
• Mahaffy, John Pentland (1839–1919), Anglo-Irish scholar of Greek history and literature.
• Moulton, Richard Green (1849–1924), English-born scholar of classical drama.
• Müller, Karl Otfried (1797–1840), German scholar of Greek literature and mythology.
• Murray, Gilbert (1866–1957), leading scholar of the language and culture of ancient Greece.
• Peppler, Charles W. (1872–1953), American classical philologist.
• Sandys, John Edwin (1844–1922), English classical scholar.
• Shorey, Paul (1857–1934), American scholar.
• Thirlwall, Connop (1797–1875), English bishop and classicist.
• Verrall, Arthur Woollgar (1851–1912), literary criticism of Euripides.

Text editors

• Jebb, Richard Claverhouse (1841–1905), Greek text of Sophocles.
• Keene, Charles Haines (1847–1915), Greek text of Euripides' Electra.
• Paley, Frederick Apthorp (1815–1888), Greek text of Euripides.
• Pearson, Alfred Chilton (1861–1935), texts and fragments of Greek dramatists.
• Rogers, Benjamin Bickley (1828–1919), Greek text of Aristophanes.
• Smyth, Herbert Weir (1857–1937), fragments of Aeschylus.
• Storr, Francis (1839–1919), Greek text of Sophocles.
• Walker, Richard Johnson (1868–1934), fragments of Sophocles.
• Weil, Henri (1818–1909), Greek text of Euripides.

Translators

• Buckley, Theodore Alois (1825–1856), translator of Sophocles and Aeschylus.
• Campbell, Lewis (1830–1908), translator of Sophocles and Aeschylus.
• Coleridge, Edward P. (1863–1936), translator of Euripides.
• Cookson, G. M. (1867–1951), translator of Aeschylus.
• Dale, Thomas (1797–1870), translator of Sophocles.
• Francklin, Thomas (1721–1784), translator of Sophocles.
• Frere, John Hookham (1769–1846), translator of Aristophanes.
• Hickie, William James (1819–1892), translator of Aristophanes.
• Jebb, Richard Claverhouse (1841–1905), translator of Sophocles.
• Morshead, E. D. A. (1849–1912), translator of Aeschylus.
• Murray, Gilbert (1866–1957), translator of Euripides.
• Plumptre, Edward Hayes (1821–1891), translator of Sophocles and Aeschylus.
• Potter, Robert (1721–1804), translator of Aeschylus, Euripides, and Sophocles.
• Rogers, Benjamin Bickley (1828–1919), translator of Aristophanes.
• Rudd, Leonard Hampson (1816–1888), translator of Aristophanes.
• Smyth, Herbert Weir (1857–1937), translator of Aeschylus.
• Storr, Francis (1839–1919), translator of Sophocles.
• Swanwick, Anna (1813–1899), translator of Aeschylus.
• Trevelyan, Robert Calverley (1872–1951), translator of Aeschylus and Sophocles.
• Verrall, Arthur Woollgar (1851–1912), translator of Euripides.
• Way, Arthur S. (1847–1930), translator of Aeschylus, Euripides, and Sophocles.
• Wheelwright, C. A. (1787–1858), translator of Aristophanes.
• Young, George (1837–1930), translator of Sophocles.

Continental scholars

• Nikolaus Wecklein German

See also

• Portal:Drama
• Portal:Greek language and literature