For the modern world Greek tragedy is represented almost entirely by those plays of Aeschylus Sophocles and Euripides whose texts have been preserved since they were first produced in the fifth century BC. From that period and the next two hundred years more than eighty other tragic poets are known from biographical and production data playtitles mythical subjectmatter and remnants of their works quoted by other ancient writers or rediscovered in papyrus texts. This edition includes all the re