Aeschylus
(c. 525-456 BC)
Works
Surviving Plays
- The Oresteia (458 BC) - a trilogy consisting of:
- Agamemnon (458 BC)
- The Choephori (458 BC); also called The Libation Bearers
- The Eumenides (458 BC); also called The Furies
- The Persians (472 BC)
- Prometheus Bound (c. 478-430? BC)
- Seven Against Thebes (467 BC)
- The Suppliant Maidens (463 BC); also called The Suppliants or The Suppliant Women
Lost Plays (only fragments have survived):
- Myrmidons
- Nereids
- Niobe
- Phrygians (or, Hector's Ransom)
- (Old Testament) (c. 1400?-300? BC)
- Homer (fl.c. 850? BC)
- Confucius (c. 551-479 BC)
- Aeschylus (c. 525-456 BC)
- Sophocles (c. 495-406 BC)
- Euripides (c. 485-406 BC)
- Herodotus (c. 484-425 BC)
- Hippocrates (c. 460-377? BC)
- Aristophanes (c. 448-380 BC)
- Plato (c. 427-347 BC)
- (Bhagavad-Gita) (c. 400 BC)
- Aesop (fl.c. 300 BC)
- Cicero (106-43 BC)
- Virgil (70-19 BC)
- Plutarch (c. 45-120)
- (New Testament) (c. 45?-95?)
- Tacitus (c. 55-117)
- Epictetus (c. 60-120)
- Marcus Aurelius (121-180)
- St. Augustine of Hippo (354-430)
- (The Qur'an) (c. 632)
- (Beowulf) (c. 725)
- (Tales from the 1001 Nights) (c. 850?)
- (The Destruction of Dá Derga's Hostel) (c. 900?; mss. c. 1100)
