List of ancient Greek playwrights

• Chos
• Aeschylus :
• *The Persians
• *Seven Against Thebes
• *The Suppliants
• *The Oresteia
• *Prometheus Bound
• Phrynichus :
• *The Fall of Miletus
• *Danaides
• *Actaeon
• *Alcestis
• *Tantalus
• Achaeus of Eretria
• *Adrastus
• *Linus
• *Cycnus
• *Eumenides
• *Philoctetes
• *Pirithous
• *Theseus
• *Œdipus
• Achaeus of Syracuse
• Agathon
• Aphareus
• *Asklepios**
• *Akhilleus**
• *Tantalos**
• Sophocles :
• *Theban plays, or Oedipus cycle:
• **Antigone
• **Oedipus Rex
• **Oedipus at Colonus
• *Ajax
• *The Trachiniae
• *Electra
• *Philoctetes
• Euripides :
• *Alcestis
• *Medea
• *The Heracleidae
• *Hippolytus
• *Electra
• *Sisyphos
• *Andromache
• *The Suppliants
• *Hecuba
• *Herakles
• *The Trojan Women
• *Ion
• *Iphigenia in Tauris
• *Helen
• *The Phoenician Women
• *Iphigenia At Aulis
• *Orestes
• *The Cyclops
• *The Bacchae
• *Rhesus
• Euphorion ; possibly the author of Prometheus Bound, which is often attributed to his father Aeschylus
• "Phaesus"

  Comedies

• Susarion of Megara
• Epicharmus of Kos
• Phormis, late 6th century
• Dinolochus, 487 BCE
• Euetes 485 BCE
• Euxenides 485 BCE
• Mylus 485 BCE
• Chionides 487 BCE
• Magnes 472 BCE
• Cratinus
• Crates c. 450 BCE
• Ecphantides
• Pisander
• Epilycus
• Callias Schoenion
• Hermippus 435 BCE
• Myrtilus
• Lysimachus
• Hegemon of Thasos, 413 BCE
• Sophron
• Phrynichus
• Lycis, before 405 BCE
• Lucrideus
• Leucon
• Lysippus
• Eupolis
• Aristophanes, a leading source for Greek Old Comedy
• *The Acharnians
• *The Knights
• *The Clouds
• *The Wasps
• *Peace
• *The Birds
• *Lysistrata
• *Thesmophoriazusae
• *The Frogs
• *Assemblywomen
• *Plutus
• Pherecrates 420 BCE
• Diocles of Phlius
• Sannyrion
• Philyllius, 394 BCE
• Hipparchus
• Archippus
• Polyzelus
• Philonides
• Eunicus 5th century BCE
• Telecleides 5th century BCE
• Euphonius 458 BCE
• Phrynichus
• Cantharus 422 BCE
• Ameipsias
• Strattis
• Cephisodorus 402 BCE
• Plato late 5th century BCE
• Theopompus c. 410 - c.380 BCE
• Nicophon 5th century BCE
• Nicochares
• Eubulus early 4th century BCE
• Araros, son of Aristophanes 388, 375
• Antiphanes
• Anaxandrides 4th century BCE
• Calliades 4th century BCE
• Nicostratus
• Phillipus
• Philetarus c. 390-c. 320 BCE
• Anaxilas 343 BCE
• Ophelion
• Callicrates
• Heraclides, 348 BCE
• Alexis
• Amphis mid-4th century BCE
• Axionicus
• Cratinus Junior
• Eriphus
• Epicrates of Ambracia 4th century BCE
• Stephanus, 332 BCE
• Strato
• Aristophon
• Euphron
• Sotades of Athens
• Augeas
• Epippus
• Heniochus
• Epigenes
• Mnesimachus
• Timotheus
• Sophilus
• Antidotus
• Naucrates
• Xenarchus
• Dromo
• Crobylus
• Philippides
• Philemon of Soli or Syracuse
• Menander, a leading source for Greek New Comedy
• *Dyskolos
• Apollodorus of Carystus
• Diphilus of Sinope
• Dionysius
• Timocles 324 BCE
• Theophilus
• Sosippus
• Anaxippus, 303 BCE
• Demetrius, 299 BCE
• Archedicus, 302 BCE
• Sopater, 282 BCE
• Damoxenus c. 370 BC - 270 BCE
• Hegesippus, or Crobylus
• Theognetus
• Bathon
• Diodorus
• Machon of Corinth/Alexandria 3rd century BCE
• Poseidippus of Cassandreia
• Epinicus
• Laines or Laenes 185 BCE
• Philemon 183 BCE
• Chairion or Chaerion 154 BCE