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An index of Ancient Greek drama on Wikisource.
General
[edit]- 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
- “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
[edit]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) | |||
Seven against Thebes | Cookson (1922); | Morshead (1908) | Swanwick (1886) | ||||
The Suppliants | Cookson (1922); | Morshead (1883 , 1908) | Swanwick (1886) | ||||
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- 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
- Compilations:
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) | ||||
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- 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.)
- The Tragedies of Euripides, trans. by Arthur S. Way (1894–1898)
- Compilations:
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) | |||
- 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
- Compilations:
- Fragments:
- "Fragments", translated by E. H. Plumptre (1878)
- Fragments:
Comedies
[edit]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) | |||||
- 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.
- Compliations:
Dramatists
[edit]- Acestor
- Achaeus
- Aeantides
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Amphis
- “Amphis”, by Philip Smith in Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1870.
- Anaxandrides
- Anaxilas
- Anaxippus
- Antidotus
- 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
- 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
- Archippus
- Aristarchus of Tegea
- 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, 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", 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
- 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
[edit]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