A selection of poetry by Anacreon and others.

Tells the story of the death of Heracles by his wife.

Philoctetes is a play by Sophocles. The play was written during the Peloponnesian War. It was first performed at the Festival of Dionysus in 409 BC, where it won first prize. The story takes place during the Trojan War (after the majority of the events of the Iliad, and before the Trojan Horse). It describes the attempt by Neoptolemus and Odysseus to bring the disabled Philoctetes with them to Troy.

The final drama of King Oedipus.

The drama and tragedy of King Oedipus.

Set in the city of Argos a few years after the Trojan war, it is based around the character of Electra, and the vengeance that she and her brother Orestes take on their mother Clytemnestra and step father Aegisthus for the murder of their father, Agamemnon.

A masterpiece of Greek Tragedy, concerning the conflict between public and private morality.

It chronicles the fate of the warrior Ajax after the events of the Iliad, but before the end of the Trojan War.

Produced during the Peloponnesian War, it is often considered a commentary on the capture of the Aegean island of Melos and the subsequent slaughter and subjugation of its populace by the Athenians earlier in 415 BC, the same year the play was produced.

The aftermath of the War of the Seven Against Thebes.

Rhesus takes place during the Trojan War, on the night when Odysseus and Diomedes sneak into the Trojan camp and kill Rhesus, instead of Hector, by orders of Athena.

The Phoenician Women is a tragedy by Euripides. The title refers to the Greek chorus, which is composed of Phoenician women on their way to Delphi who are trapped in Thebes by the war. The chorus represents the innocent and neutral people that very often are found in the middle of war situations. Patriotism is a significant theme in the story, as Polynices talks a great deal about his love for the city of Thebes but has brought an army to destroy it; Creon is also force...

Orestes is an Ancient Greek play by Euripides that follows the events of Orestes after he had murdered his mother.

Medea is an ancient Greek tragedy written by Euripides, based upon the myth of Jason and Medea and first produced in 431 BC. The plot centers on the barbarian protagonist as she finds her position in the Greek world threatened, and the revenge she takes against her husband Jason who has betrayed her for another woman.

The priestess of Artemis.

A prelude to the Trojan War.

A Satyr Play.

Hippolytos Stephanophoros "Hippolytus who wears a crown", is a reference to the crown of garlands Hippolytus wears as a worshiper of Artemis. In this version of Hippolytus, his stepmother Phaedra fights her sexual appetites for her stepson, only to hang herself and blame Hippolytus. The surviving play offers a much more even-handed and psychologically complex treatment of the characters than is commonly found in traditional retelling of myths.

While Herakles is in the underworld obtaining Cerberus for one of his labours, his father Amphitryon, wife Megara, and children are sentenced to death in Thebes by Lycus. Herakles arrives in time to save them, though the goddesses Iris and Madness (personified) cause him to kill his wife and children in a frenzy.

Heracleidae is a play by Euripides c. 430 BC. It follows the children of Heracles (known as the Heracleidae), as they seek protection from Eurystheus. It is the first of two surviving plays by Euripides where the family of Heracles are suppliants (the second being Heracles Mad).